[cyncooper]

I had missed that! Thanks for linking it.

I'm speechless.

But I'll give the campaign the spin they can use. Kerry's mission for the CIA was so secret that NOBODY knew he was really IN Cambodia and the CIA guy who gave him the hat is now lamentably dead so isn't available to confirm the story. (Too bad the SwiftVet guys were with him 24/7 during the entire timeframe and can indeed contradict this story--but we all know they don't count)

[Condor51]

"...Kerry's mission for the CIA was so secret that NOBODY knew he was really IN Cambodia and the CIA guy..."

Drat, drat and double drat. You've figured out that Kerry was really a secret agent! And he was trying to keep it hushed up.

"Lt Kerry, your mission - if you decide to accept it, is to go up river 50 miles inside the Cambodian border on Christams and capture the VC General, Nuygen Yia Gaip while he's drunk and passed out."

"As usual, if any of your IM force is caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, John."

Now the 'rest' of his Impossible Mission force will have to go public, if they're still alive that is.