"What is ze big deal. Zeees is nothing. Rien."
Sen. John Kerry, the Presidential candidate post turtle,
put in that position by the Clintons and Kennedys.
Posted on 04/11/2004 7:25:03 PM PDT by wagglebee
FBI files stolen from the home of Vietnam war historian Gerald Nicosia detail at least one secret 1970 meeting in Paris between future Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and representatives of the communist government of North Vietnam during the height of the Vietnam War.
In an interview last week with California's Marin County Independent Journal, Nicosia said the FBI files contained information on Kerry's May 1970 trip to Paris, where he spoke to Hanoi negotiators who were beginning peace talks with the Nixon administration.
Kerry revealed his secret meeting with then-enemy negotiators during a little noticed question and answer session after his April 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations committee. The Paris meeting also included representatives from U.S. ally South Vietnam.
"I have been to Paris," Kerry told the Senate, in quotes first reported by the Boston Globe. "I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks, that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government."
According to Vietnam War historian Stanley Karnow, the Provisional Revolutionary Government was "an arm of the North Vietnamese government."
After revealing his meeting with enemy negotiators, Kerry told the Senate that his goal was to bring an end to the killing, including "200,000 [Vietnamese] a year who are murdered by the United States of America . . . ."
Kerry's confession that he met with Hanoi representatives immediately raised eyebrows even among Senators sympathetic to his efforts, prompting Sen. J. William Fulbright to remind Kerry that even Congress "cannot directly under our system negotiate a cease-fire or anything of this kind."
According to the Globe, Kerry responded, "I realize that even my visits in Paris . . . in a sense are on the borderline of private individuals negotiating."
Then as now, U.S. law forbids citizens from negotiating with foreign governments on matters such as peace treaties.
Kerry spokesman Michael Meehan insisted to the Globe that his boss "had no role whatsoever in the Paris peace talks or negotiations. He did not engage in any negotiations and did not attend any session of the talks. Prior to his Senate testimony, he went to Paris on a private trip, where he had one brief meeting. . . "
Meehan did not explain why Kerry referred to "visits" to Paris, suggesting there may have been more than one meeting with members of the Hanoi delegation. In his interview with the Journal, Nicosia gave no indication that the missing FBI files documented multiple meetings.
Nicosia told the Journal that it was no coincidence that someone may have wanted to get their hands on FBI files covering Kerry's Paris trip[s] and other troubling activities from the candidate's anti-war past.
"There is obviously a lot of sensitive stuff in that material - stuff that could really be used against Kerry in a big way in the campaign."
"Maybe we're back in the era of dirty tricks," he added.
"What is ze big deal. Zeees is nothing. Rien."
Sen. John Kerry, the Presidential candidate post turtle,
put in that position by the Clintons and Kennedys.
. . .to receive instructions.
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"I have been to Paris," Kerry told the Senate, in quotes first reported by the Boston Globe. "I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks, that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government." The Paris meeting also included representatives from U.S. ally South Vietnam.
Limbacher has this wrong. The two delegations Kerry refers to are the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. I have never read or saw anything that says he met with the South Vietnamese.
I'd like to hear the commies' version of what happened. Specifically, what did Kerry tell them? Did Kerry tell them to take a tough line against the USA? Did he encourage them to keep holding American POWs?
If any of these Vietnamese officials are still alive, I'd love to interview them. Of course, at this point, they'd likely cover for their fellow traveller.
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