Posted on 10/27/2004 8:00:43 AM PDT by hispanarepublicana
Newly discovered documents appear to link Vietnam Veterans Against the War to Vietnamese Communists. In an extensive article on the web site www.wintersoldier.com, writers Jerome R. Corsi and Scott Swett claim that two recently discovered documents captured from the Vietnamese communists during the Vietnam War strongly support the existence of a close link between the Hanoi regime and Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) -- all while John Kerry served as the group's leading national spokesman.
Corsi and Swett say that the first document (web site) is a 1971 information sheet distributed by the Vietnamese communists within Vietnam. It discusses strategies to coordinate their national propaganda effort with their orchestration of the activities of sympathetic counterparts in the American anti-war movement.
Specifically, the document notes that the Vietcong and North Vietnamese delegations to the Paris Peace talks were being used as the communications link to direct the activities of anti-war activists meeting with them in Paris.
According to Corsi and Swett, the documents were unearthed on October 22 by Swift Veterans and POWs for Truth researchers Troy Jenkins and Tom Wyld in the archives of the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University, in the Douglas Pike Collection.
"Douglas Pike was a leading authority on the Vietnam War who collected over 2 million pages of original documents now archived at the Vietnam Center. James Reckner, Ph.D., Director of the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech, verifies that the documents in the Pike collection are original and authentic," Corsi and Swett say. "The Circular and the Directive are listed as items numbered 2150901039b and 2150901041 respectively."
A call for comment to the Kerry/Edwards national campaign headquarters was not returned, but Matt Farrauto, communications director for the Democratic Party of New Mexico, quickly responded when contacted.
"The authors of this book have been discredited by major news organizations," Farrauto said, "And it is an embarrassment to the journalistic profession that anyone would give them the time of day. I am aware of the group and these last minute ploys don't deserve any coverage."
Farrauto added, "George Bush has led us astray on every major issue. These are journalistic distractions and there is no point in engaging in discussions about lies."
Quoting from the documents, Corsi and Swett comment, "The spontaneous anti-war movements in the U.S. have received assistance and guidance from the friendly (VC/NVN) delegations at the Paris Peace Talks." The reference to "VC" indicates the Vietcong. "NVN" is the North Vietnamese government.
This sentence is particularly important, Corsi and Swett say, after Kerry's admission that he met with leaders of both communist delegations to the Paris Peace Talks in June 1970, including Madame Binh, foreign minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) of South Vietnam, also known as the Vietcong. FBI files record that Kerry returned to Paris to meet with the North Vietnamese delegation in August of 1971, and planned a third trip in November of the same year.
"Prior to the discovery of the Circular, there was no direct evidence that Hanoi was actually steering the U.S. anti-war movement's activities by conveying Hanoi's goals and wishes to movement leaders during their frequent visits to Paris, though many investigators had assumed that to be the case," Corsi and Swett say. "Further analysis of this document supports the contention that Madame Binh used her Paris meeting with John Kerry to instruct him on how he and the VVAW might best serve as Hanoi's surrogates in the United States."
On July 22 1971, John Kerry held a press conference in Washington, DC, to call upon President Nixon to accept Madame Binh's Seven-Point Peace Plan. Kerry surrounded himself at the press conference with POW wives, parents, and sisters who had been recruited, Corsi and Swett say, to promote his message.
The event was reported in The New York Times on July 23, 1971 and the communist Daily World on July 24. Each article included a photograph of Kerry surrounded by POW family members.
"Kerry's use of POW families directly advanced the North Vietnamese communist agenda as described by enemy defectors and in the newly discovered Circular," Corsi and Swett claim, "[This] suggests that Madame Binh had recommended the same course of action to antiwar activists meeting with her in Paris."
The second document (web site) captured by U.S. military forces in South Vietnam on May 12 1972, Corsi and Swett claim, is designed to motivate discussion within Vietnam about promoting the ongoing American antiwar activities.
"The fifth paragraph of this document makes clear that the Vietnamese communists were utilizing for their propaganda purposes the activities of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War," Corsi and Swett say.
"The protest described as occurring from April 19 through April 22 1971, coincides directly with the dates of Dewey Canyon III, the Washington DC protest led by John Kerry, during which John Kerry's testimony before Senator Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee was a televised centerpiece," Corsi and Swett say. "The description of the protest activities in the Directive even include the 'return their medals' ceremony in which John Kerry and other VVAW members threw their medals and/or ribbons toward the steps of the US Capitol, with several shouting threats of violence against their government as they did so."
The documents also discuss, Corsi and Swett say, how closely the Vietnamese communists were working with and through the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice. (PCPJ).
After disclosing how the communist delegations to the Paris Peace talks were being used to guide the US antiwar movement, the flyer stresses the importance of the PCPJ to these efforts.
These newly uncovered documents provide clear conclusions the authors write. They "help clarify the relationship of the North Vietnamese, the Vietcong, the PCPJ, the Communist Party of the USA, and John Kerry's VVAW. They indicate that these organizations worked closely together, using the Paris Peace Talks as a central point of communication, to employ the strategy and tactics devised by the Vietnamese communists to achieve their primary objective: the defeat of the United States of America in Vietnam."
What coverage? I have not seen this in MSM or on FNC; only the internet.
Red Raider Bump.
Dem spokesman says no news here just move on, the MSM complies, I'm disgusted.
The really ironic thing here is that these authentic documents came from Lubbock, which is about a 2 hour drive northwest of Abilene, which is where the phony SeeBS documents came from.
W. Texas--the center of the Universe....whooda thunk it?
"Dumb Spokesman?" Is this an oxymoron? Or is he just a Moron?
Either the Bush Campaign or the Swifties need to run an ad referring to these documents and showing sKerry's picture in that Vietnamese War Museum with a voice saying something to the effect that: "John sKerry has told you about all of the honors and awards he got while he served in Vietnam. But there is one honor he earned that he has not told you about. That honor is having his picture hanging in a War Museum in Communist Vietnam as a war hero. Do we really want a Communist war hero as our president?"
And in the late 70's Lubbock was a 6-pack from Fort Worth.
Hahahahahaha gurgle chuckle, heheheheheh, whew! Good one, Mr Farrauto! Mind if I steal your joke?
Do we really want a Communist war hero as our president?"
Man, that would be a fantastic piece. But you know that George Bush won't go there. He thinks it gentlemanly not to even appear to be otherwise. But who needs manners at this point. Kerry is dangerous.
Tick, Tick, ...... Tick
Ping - plus you can see the documents here:
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=vccircular
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=vcdirective
Well then I would ask: What about the coverage of Kerry's press conference that was covered in the Times on July 24, 1971. did that not happen? Or are you saying that the papers from the captured papers archive are forgeries? What about this story is not true?
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