Kerry’s Hanoi tapes

The American Thinker ^ | September 2nd, 2004 | Steve Gilbert

[livesbygrace]

As is now well known to everyone except those in the news media, John Kerry and other representatives of his group, the Vietnam Veterans Against The War (VVAW), met with the North Vietnamese and Vietcong peace delegations numerous times circa 1970-72, both in Paris and Hanoi.

The VVAW was so proud of these meetings they made cassette tapes and transcripts of the momentous events:

On page 1705 of the FBI’s Kerry/VVAW files there is an excerpt from the August 1971 issue of the National VVAW News:

Tapes of conversations with the representatives at the Paris Peace Talks are available for $45.00 for eight cassettes and a bound transcript. These are conversations between the VVAW delegation and the representatives of the four parties. If you are interested send the money and the order to the regional office and we will forward it for you to the office in Connecticut that is handling this.

Much has been made over the years about Jane Fonda’s trips to Hanoi and her broadcasting propaganda over Radio Hanoi for the North Vietnamese against the American forces. But Kerry’s own group also supplied material to Radio Hanoi for their broadcasts to the US troops. In fact, the current incarnation of the VVAW is hawking some of these tapes that were recently unearthed:

Radio Hanoi Tapes Found In Barn By John 'Doc' Upton

The Vietnam Veterans Radio network has obtained audio tapes, recorded between 1964 and 1971, of regular daily broadcasts from Radio Hanoi's 'Voice of Vietnam', "...to American soldiers involved in the war in Vietnam," featuring reporters Thu Houng (better known as 'Hanoi Hannah') and Van Tung.

VVRN received the Radio Hanoi tapes, as well as recordings of Radio Peking, from Jack Bock, a W.W.II vet from Washington state, who had worked as a civilian communications technician in Japan and Thailand during the Vietnam War. In a letter, Jack said he had heard VVRN on Radio For Peace International's short-wave broadcasts, and thought we might be interested in the tapes, which he had stored in his barn until now. Jack said he had recorded the tapes "to get another slant on the news," and pointed to the "charges and counter-charges over the so-called Gulf of Tonkin Incident in August of 1964" as an example, adding, "Looking back, it is easy to see who was lying."

After receiving the tapes, VVRN's initial review found, as Jack had told us, that they contained a great deal of static and interference, including, no doubt, US jamming. We contacted Chuck Haddix, director of the Marr Sound Archives at the University of Missouri-KC, who offered to 'clean' the tapes for us. However, after hearing a portion of 'partially cleaned' tape, and realizing the historical significance of their content, Chuck put us in touch with Les Waffen, director of the Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch of the National Archives. Les told us that the tapes of Radio Hanoi were "very rare," and said that his department had the equipment and staff necessary to clean the tapes digitally. They did an incredible job!

Except for a change from patriotic Vietnamese music in the earlier tapes to American rock and folk music later, the format of Radio Hanoi's Voice of Vietnam remained basically the same over the years, and includes:

News headlines and reports critical of the Vietnam War from the World, and from around the world Combat Action Reports, with descriptions of the fighting and the names and locations of the American units involved

Lists of the names, ranks, and serial numbers of Americans killed in action during the previous 24 hours, along with their families' names and hometown addresses

Speeches, poems and songs by American POWs, deserters and antiwar activists

Reports on the anti-Vietnam War activities of active duty GIs, primarily in the US and in Europe, and on VVAW's actions (including the Winter Soldier Investigation, Operation Heart of America, and the signing of the People's Peace Treaty)

Reminders that "Vietnam is not American soil," concern that "you could go home in a body bag," and encouragement to "demand your withdrawal from Vietnam now"

Copies of the Radio Hanoi/Radio Peking tapes, cassette and reel-to-reel, are available from VVRN. To receive a chronological catalog outlining the contents of these historic and revealing broadcasts (68 separate entries) from the Voice of Vietnam, send a self-addressed and stamped (52 cents) envelope plus $1.00, or just a buck and a half, to: VVAW/VVRN, 7807 North Avalon, Kansas City, MO 64152.

(By the way, John "Doc" Upton, was also at the Kansas City meeting in November 1971, where the assassination of US Congressmen was discussed. As was John Kerry.)

There is no mystery as to how Radio Hanoi came to have this material about the VVAW’s Winter Soldier Investigation or the VVAW’s signing of the People’s Peace Treaty -- Kerry’s VVAW sent them to Hanoi: There are two references in the FBI documents to VVAW members making propaganda tapes for Radio Hanoi. One says, "Tapes would be sent from the United States to North Vietnam to broadcast over Radio Hanoi to get U.S. servicemen to stop fighting in Vietnam…"

These are the self-same tapes that Vietnam POWs, such as Paul Galanti, have stated were played to them by their captors to convince the US prisoners they should confess to being war criminals.

And thanks to the VVAW/VVRN, you can now buy them for your enjoyment in your own home.

[Soaring Feather]

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[Area51]

I'm sure the kerry camp hates getting up in the morning to see whatelse has hit the fan from the night before...

1 posted on 09/02/2004 6:47:11 AM PDT by livesbygrace
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Maybe instead of giving his rebuttal speech tonight after the President gives his, John F'nn will just play the tapes to show us What kind of Commander and Chief he would make.

[Just mythoughts]

"Perhaps this should be passed onto Zell....he has the gonads to get it out."


Listening to Zell speaking about JFKerry, I have a feeling he is very well aware of JFKerry's history.

Zell's speech last night was a warning and the lying crooked liberals know it. They were just too stunned that anybody in this "age" would take them on front and center.

They are still trying to catch their breath after the "Nixon" recognition by Arnold.

[christie]

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This article is a much read: Kerry's Disloyal Nicaraguan Journey. What Kerry did in Vietnam, he did in Nicaragua, and he is trying to do in Iraq.

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[ThomasMore]

How does a TRAITOR like Kerry become a senator?

Can he be prosecuted for TREASON?

[jwpjr]

re: "it's worse, though, since Kerry was a vet!!"

Wrong! A vet is someone who has served their country and been discharged from the service. At the time Kerry was doing all this he was apparently still a member of the Navy Reserves. I would think if it's true that he was still technically a member of the armed services that his actions would be subject to the UCMJ!

[MeekOneGOP]

[TitanicMan2003]

So the face of the Dems is a traitor and a confessed war criminal? Did they really think this whole Kerry thing through?

MGY

[hawkaw]

Wow ... this could really leave a mark. I knew of one meeting but there are tapes of meetings.

Yikes!

[TASMANIANRED]

After Zell taking him to the wood shed last night and these tapes this morning, I bet Kerry's rice wounds are bleeding more today than when the incident happened.

[Mudboy Slim]

Hanoi John was still Active Duty when he broke ranks and met with the Commies?! My bad...that is much worse!!

FReegards...MUD

BTW..."Eve of Destruction!!"
(To be sung to Barry McGuire's "Eve Of Destruction")

Mideastern world...tyrants implodin'...
RATS dispairin'...Right's emboldened!!
Reject John Kerry's swill...be righteous voters...
Decry the need fer War...believe the SwiftVetBoaters...
'Cuz without soldiers fer FReedom, FReedom's verboten!!

Lib'rals tell me...
Over and over, "It's over...we're dead!!"...my FRiends...
Folks, I don't believe...we're on the Eve of Destruction!!

Join our righteous band, we're just dyin' to play...
Must reject RATS' fears...and FReepin's the way!!
When the Lib'rals are crushed...it's a true glory day!!
Gotta Country to save...put fascists in their graves!!
Lib'ral kooks astound ya, boy...TRUTH's bound to scare you, boy!!

Mudyuh tells me...
Over and over, "It's over, we're dead!!"...my FRiends...
Still, I won't believe...we're on the eve of destruction!!

Sure. Ol' MUD's so mad...at Left's belly-achin'...
RATS peddle Fear...Left's Power's fadin'...
Medyuh twists the Truth...monopoly is breakin'!!
Two blow-dried Senators...DemRATS must be quakin'!!
Dem marchers are stoned...virtue's been forsaken...
All humans expect...Righteous Liberation!!
Thw whole Lib'ral World...let's just eradicate it!!

Sosh'lists tell me...
Over and over, "It's over...we're dead!!", my FRiends...
Right, we can't believe...we're on the Eve of Destruction!!

Next, we'll liberate...people of Red China...
Ron Reagan showed US how...by whuppin' Commie Russia!!
Dem Lib'rals fear the whole human race...
Sosh'lism's been spurned...Guv'ment's been disgraced!!
Great devolution's come...cede Power to the States!!
Bureaucracy's tax-fed...Income Tax erased!!
Love yer next-door neighbor...and don't fergit to say Grace!!

RATS tell me...
Over and over and over, "It's over...we're dead!!"...my FRiends...
Folks now believe...Left's on the Eve of Extinction!!"
Mmmm, yes folks, Liberty...demands the Lib'rals' destruction!!

Mudboy Slim

[christie]

Do you have the date and location of the Kerry/Ramsey Clark photo? Is there an unmarked copy of the photo available anywhere?

[T'wit]

As I've been saying with this tagline...

[T'wit]

> keel hauled him under say an aircraft carrier.

A bold move, but I like it. We could be generous and award him a posthumous purple heart. After the three band-aids, he should have this chance to earn a purple heart due to enemy action.

[Gator113]

I'll bet that today, he has flu-like symptoms!! Now I know why he stays in hiding so much...he needs to stay near a toilet!

[ppaul]

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[Quix]

He fancies himself a courageous point man--

I know--

put him as a hood ornament on a big HUMVEE going into

FALUJAH?

[TommyDale]

Anyone know anything about the film of Kerry actually setting fire to Vietnamese villages?

[shezza]

It just keeps on comin'! Who knew Hanoi Kerry had so many skeletons in his closet?

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

I have no idea of the date of the photo