Well sounds as if the ball is starting to moveon....
Here are acouple of posts concerning some of the issues mentioned here.
VVAW getting phone from North Vietnamese Communists to discuss demostrations.
What the FBI files and history of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, (VVAW) reveal about, VVAW and John Kerry:
1. VVAW Plan to assassinate seven US senators.
2. VVAW was training to execute a Phoenix plan to decapitate the leaders of the US Government.
3. Member of VVAW arrested in-route to VP Agnew speech with an explosive device (BOMB).
4. VVAW running guns to a black militant group in Cairo IL. Use link 12 page 131, also same as link 10..
5. VVAW funded by Communist party of America.
6. VVAW receiving funds from the Communist Party of a country in Europe.
7. VVAW taking directions from the North Vietnamese Communist Government.
8. VVAW sent tapes to NV to be played to our POW's being held by the communists.
9. VVAW sent its members on several occasions to Hanoi and Moscow to be indoctrinated by the Communists.
10. FBI files indicate that Kerry only resigned from the executive committee of the VVAW at the Kansas City meeting.
Link to FBI files concerning Nov. 1971 VVAW meeting, go to page 190 for FBI report.
Link 2
11. FBI files indicate there was concern about a possible assassination attempt on President Nixon in FL. Go to page 10-13.
Link 3
12. Plan by members of VVAW to assassinate two (birch and Hubbard) of the national leaders of VVAW reported from the Pittsburgh PA FBI office. Page 68
Next link
13. VVAW had a plan to kidnap US leaders and hold them for ransom to force US to withdraw out troops from Vietnam. Not unlike the terrorist today!
14. On 1/21/72 some VVAW members had a meeting with William C. Frey who stated that is was associated with Revolutionary movements in South America. Mr. Frey was eventually expelled from. Guatemala for being a “Communist.”
Frey Link
15. Jan. 27, 1972 VVAW Gainesville FL regional coordinator indicted on two counts of kidnapping for ransom. Camil’s arrest triggers alert to Secret Service. Same link as number 12 page 71.
16. March 1972 FBI memo covers VVAW letter addressed to the UN requesting UN mediation in Vietnam and to meet with VVAW representatives. Same link as 12 page 114.
17. VVAW member Mark Ciel arrested in act of throwing a firebomb, convicted 1/31/72. Same as 12 page 134.
18. VVAW member Al Hubbard attends Paris peace talks with unidentified member of “Communist Party, USA” and CPUSA paid for his trip, per Hubbard’s admission. Same link as 12, page 134.
19. November 1971 meeting, “revolutionary statements advocating violence which were generally accepted by VVAW representatives in attendance. Meeting re: assassinate seven US senators discussed. Use link 12, page 131,132.
20. John Kerry resigned the executive committee to become the National Leader of the VVAW! Use link 12, page 134.
21. February 14,1972 due to the increase of “subversive involvement by VVAW”, with John Kerry as its National Leader, Director of the FBI orders increased development of informants. FBI document states ”Recent VVAW activities clearly indicate ever-increasing militant posture.” ………”incidents of arms stockpiling and arms transportation on part of VVAW members,…” Use link 12, page 161- 165.
22. FBI's files on the VVAW mention that an informant learned on 4/12/71, "the VVAW had received $50,000 from Senators McGovern and Hatfield”. The democrats are helping finance VVAW. (100-HQ-448092, Section 2, p. 199)
23. FBI files indicate time and time again that the VVAW has close connections with various radical/communist groups bent on destroying the United States. Such groups as; Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Socialist Workers Party (SWP), Young Socialist Organizer (YSO), YSO per its masthead, “A multinational revolutionary socialist youth organization.” “The SWP has been designated pursuant to Executive Order 10450.”
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