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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BTTT!!!!!!!
She dies in Revolution 2, in 2007?
Kerry's knowledge of French would have made him an excellent interlocuter between the Vietnamese Communists and the VVAW. There is obviously more to this story and Kerry's involvement with the US Communist party. He had unusual access in Paris for a 27 year old recently discharged veteran.
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NEVER FORGET
...When JOHN KERRY tells the American People that he was just trying "To stop the Fighting" during the Vietnam War...
...or during CASTRO's Communist Push into Central America during the early 1980's...
...KERRY conveniently forgets to tell us that the Communist would WIN it all in the Process.
JOHN KERRY = Enemy of Vietnam War
http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1320
NEVER FORGET
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True. Then again, most recently discharged veterans weren't friends of the Kennedys...
Another good point. And also the French leftists who were supporting North Vietnam.
Rather that she go the way of Mama Cass.
BUMP!
Okay
I didn't predict how, and choking is fine by me. ;)
Sounds like maybe he can't handle the truth.
The left doesn't have a problem with any of this. They probably view Kerry as a hero for negotiating with North Viet Nam. Kerry will be the nominee.
LOL. You're right. But I still want to know what Jean was doing with/for the Axis of Weasely Communists before/during/after the war....
when the New York Time or CBS carry it, that's when you'll know her organization is behind it
One might be able to guess which foreign leaders support Kerry...that is if he didn't just imagine their support....
Pray for W and Our Brave Troops
However, I am absolutely sure that when Hillary is on the ticket, President Bush will win at least 40 states.
If the Democratic leadership does not realize this fact then they are very stupid and this great for us. If they do know this, then it clear that they want Hillary to run in 2008 with an open field and with no incumbent President to challenge.
" As long as Hillary sees any possibility of President Bush defeat this fall, then she, Bill Clinton, and the whole Democratic establishment will do the impossible to put her on the ticket. "
Of course. The Clintons dictator attitude assumes they can and will reshape minds, laws, etc. to fit their vision and only their vision. Bill Clintons bloated ego thinks he should be Americas emperor forever. Actually Hillary as emperor and Bill as empress second in command, checking out all the hot babes and sHillary gets his left overs (barf). He's the worst kind of narcissistic personality disorder I've ever witnessed. Kerry second.
I'm a bit curious as to what Kerry's father was doing during those years, too. I don't think it would have been too difficult for his father to communicate with others on the anti-war effort's behalf, maybe helping Kerry behind the scenes or talking privately with these groups himself? His father had worked for years in the Foreign Service but was either pro-communist or at least anti-anti-communist. He seemed a mite bitter that he hit a glass ceiling in the State Dept because of his essentially anti-American views and could never become an ambassador. It was from him that Kerry got his leftist leanings and I'd be very surprised if his father would have been able to keep his own paws out of anti-war Vietnam activities.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/02/opinion/main603542.shtml
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