Is there any possibility that Kerry's Congressional testimony was merely a recitation of Viet Cong/Chicom "talking points"?
Good question. Kerry speaks French, so it's hard to say. He is a snob, so he may have been showing off. That's possible. However, getting really pedantic, there are some aspects of history I've studied only in French, and I have to think to "Americanize" my spoken references. Unless he studied specially in the era that dealt with Gengis Kahn, which he may have during his time in school in Europe, I would consider the possibility that he picked it up elsewhere. It's a big stretch, though.
KGB, according to Chapter 7 of Unfit for Command. They quote a Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet Intelligence officer to defect to the West, who spoke out in June 2004 about KGB intelligence operation that he believed was the basis for the assertions of war crimes and atrocities and the heart of Kery's 1971 Fulbright testimoney (source Unfit for Command page 123, 124)
Pacepa lays out in incredible details the wide ranging propaganda that the Soviets churned out and fed the young in this country in order to damage American credibility in Vietname. They spent millions to do it.
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