Posted on 06/04/2004 2:35:30 AM PDT by kattracks
CNSNews.com) - Newly released FBI files reveal that presumed Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry attended a second meeting with North Vietnamese communists in Paris in the early 1970s. Kerry has previously admitted to meeting only once with the North Vietnamese delegations in 1970.
According to the FBI files, Kerry met with representatives from the North Vietnamese government in Paris in 1971 in an effort to secure the release of captured American prisoners of war. Kerry has previously acknowledged meeting "both delegations" of Vietnamese communists in Paris in 1970, but has said nothing of the 1971 meeting.
Researcher and author Jerry Corsi, who began studying the anti-war movement in the early 1970s, believes Kerry is hiding key aspects about his anti-war past from the public as he seeks the presidency.
"Kerry has admitted to one meeting with Madam Binh. Now we have reason to believe there was a second [meeting], so let's press them to admit the second [meeting]," Corsi told CNSNews.com.
"Kerry needs to explain to the American people why he directly went into negotiations with communists," Corsi added. Corsi has written an essay on Kerry's dealings with the Vietemese communists on the Internet site, WinterSoldier.com.
According to Gerald Nicosia, a Kerry supporter and the author of the book Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement, Kerry's second visit to Paris to meet with emissaries of the North Vietnamese communist government is documented in redacted FBI files from the era.
"The [FBI] files record that Kerry made a second trip to Paris that summer (1971) to learn how the North Vietnamese might release prisoners," Nicosia wrote in an essay in the Los Angeles Times on May 23.
"After deciding not to run [for Congress] in 1970, he and his new wife, Julia Thorne, traveled to France in May to meet Madame Nguyen Thi Binh and other Viet Cong and Communist Vietnamese representatives to the Paris peace talks, a trip he now calls a 'fact-finding mission,"' Nicosia wrote.
Nicosia noted that, "Kerry had tried to distinguish between his own trips to meet with the Vietnamese in Paris, which he considered necessary to fight through the lies of his own government, and actual negotiations with the enemy, which Kerry knew were illegal."
Kerry told the New York Times on April 24 that his first meeting with the Vietnamese communists in 1970 was "not a big deal."
''People were dropping in (at the Paris Peace Talks). It was a regular sort of deal," Kerry explained to the New York Times .
But Corsi believes it was a very big deal.
"You had (Former Nixon aide) Henry Kissinger there (in Paris) trying to negotiate formally with the Paris peace delegation and then these guys (from Vietnam Veterans Against the War) are off on their own side show, establishing back channels to the Vietnamese communists; all of this is against the law," Corsi said, referring to U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953, which declares it illegal for a U.S. citizen to go abroad and negotiate with a foreign power.
"Exactly who was Kerry ... to have arranged these trips? He had to be in discussion with some link with the communist party of Vietnam in order to establish these trips and meetings," Corsi explained.
Kerry also may have had plans to go to South Vietnam in 1971, according to a June 16, 1971 article in the communist Daily World newspaper.
"Former Navy Lt. John Kerry is planning a three-week trip to South Vietnam in July to report on 'what is really happening' to the GI's there, he told newsmen here," read the article, written by the Daily World's Ted Pearson. Kerry was attending an event in Chicago with Jesse Jackson, who at the time was head of the organization, Operation Bread Basket.
It is unclear whether Kerry ever made the trip to South Vietnam in 1971 and Kerry's campaign did not return several phone calls seeking comment for this article.
Nicosia has criticized Kerry in the past for not being more open about his anti-war past.
"I am in kind of an awkward position here. I am a Kerry supporter and I certainly don't want to do anything that hurts him. On the other hand, my number one allegiance is to truth. So I am going to go with where the facts are, and John is going to have to deal with that," Nicosia told CNSNews.com back in March when the contents of the FBI files became public and caused Kerry to revise his past statements on a series of issues dealing with his past.
"I am having some problems with the things he is saying right now, which are not matching up with accuracy," Nicosia said in March.
"I think [Kerry] may be worried or the people around him may be worried that his association with VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War) is a very negative thing and they want John to back away from it," he added.
Kerry's anti-war activism and his meetings with the communists had a big impact, according to Corsi.
"Vietnamese communists would not have won the war without John Kerry. They were cultivating his protest activity with the VVAW," Corsi said.
Corsi said the Vietnamese communists have shown their gratitude to Kerry by displaying a photo of him at Ho Chi Minh City's Protestors Hall of the War Remnants Museum. The photo of fellow anti-war activist and actress Jane Fonda also appears in the Women's Museum in Saigon.
"As soon as [Kerry] came onto the seen, [the Vietnamese communists] latched on to him like bees on to honey. [The communists] said 'This is a guy who tells our story, it will undermine the sympathy for the war in America,'" Corsi added.
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No, from the FBI.
You can read them yourself, but it may take a while...
Nope. Hillary decided early on that she didn't want to challenge Bush in this environment. Her shot will be in 2008. (She will torpedo Kerry, if necessary.)
Where's the news here? He meets with commies all the time at the DNC!
A man goes to a psychiatrist and says "Doc, you have to help me, all I think about is sex and nothing else."
The doctor shows him various pictures and asks the man to tell him what he sees in each one.
The man looks at the first picture and says, "This one's about sex." He flips to the next one. "This one is about sex as well." He works his way though the stack, looks up and says, "Yep. They're all about sex."
The doctor says, "You seem to have something of an obsession with sex."
The man retorts, "Hey, Doc, you're the one with all the dirty pictures."
Around here, replace "photos" and "sex" with "news articles" and "Hillary..."
Kerry actually met with them twice ... before he met with them once.
Craig Linvingstone.
PING A LING
Sigh.
Nothing new here; he belongs to the Communist party and is their candidate for President...nothing to see here, move along...(/kidding)
Actually, the CPUSA endorses him for President. What a surprise (not)!
What is wrong with "Americans" to want to vote for this man?
A VERY good question .. I have to admit I am amazed at the things he did back then .. AND GETS AWAY WITH IT STILL TODAY
Like I said, I'm wearing my tin foil getup through the summer.
You must admit this is getting curiouser, and curiouser. ;)
That second meeting wasn't his. It was a 'family' meeting.
Nope, Hillary decided that she didn't want to challenge incumbant VP Rice in 2008, she'll go for it this year.
Interesting article, especially the part about a second Kerry visit to Paris in 1971. If you check the book "Aid and Comfort" by Henry and Mark Holzer, which describes Jane Fonda's treasonable activities, it is interesting to note that Fonda was in Paris meeting with the Communist delegations in March 1971 including a private meeting with Madame Binh (p. 22). Subsequently, a few months later in July 17, 1971, a delegation from the VVAW met with the Vietnamese communists in Paris without Kerry. The meeting was held after a month-long speaking tour in the Soviet Union.
It is quite possible that Kerry was in Paris at the same time as Fonda, or a little later, possibly doing some advance work for the July VVAW meeting. It would be useful to track Kerry's whereabouts during this period.
ShewhomustnotbeNamed
LMAO! Hydra Hillary....shudder
Excellent points. Both trips you mention are noted in the WinterSoldier.com time line. If you're aware of other events that should be added, please let me know.
I think we give them Dims too much credit. The Deanie Bopper episode was like something out of "The Twilight Zone".
" John F'n Kerry is their throwaway, just saving the spot for the grand entrance of the commiecRAT saviour.
2004 is Comrade Hillarys only shot at President, she will take it."
I would admit that she would be like the Pied Piper was to those vermin in Hamlin for the Dims. What the heck, they'd follow someone with leprosy.
I just don't think there is enough time for that to effective for that purpose. Time will tell.
Incumbent VP Rice?
I see our scenarios differ quite a bit. Will get back to you after this thing plays out.
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