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| FBI Files Show Kerry Met With Communists More Than Once |
| 2004-06-05 |
| Newly released FBI files reveal that presumed Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry attended a second meeting with North Vietnamese communists in Paris in the early 1970s. Kerry has previously admitted to meeting only once with the North Vietnamese delegations in 1970. According to the FBI files, Kerry met with representatives from the North Vietnamese government in Paris in 1971 in an effort to secure the release of captured American prisoners of war. Kerry has previously acknowledged meeting "both delegations" of Vietnamese communists in Paris in 1970, but has said nothing of the 1971 meeting. Researcher and author Jerry Corsi, who began studying the anti-war movement in the early 1970s, believes Kerry is hiding key aspects about his anti-war past from the public as he seeks the presidency. "Kerry has admitted to one meeting with Madam Binh. Now we have reason to believe there was a second [meeting], so let’s press them to admit the second [meeting]. Kerry needs to explain to the American people why he directly went into negotiations with communists." Corsi has written an essay on Kerry’s dealings with the Vietemese communists on the Internet site, WinterSoldier.com. According to Gerald Nicosia, a Kerry supporter and the author of the book Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans’ Movement, "After deciding not to run [for Congress] in 1970, he and his new wife, Julia Thorne, traveled to France in May to meet Madame Nguyen Thi Binh and other Viet Cong and Communist Vietnamese representatives to the Paris peace talks, a trip he now calls a ’fact-finding mission."’ Nicosia noted that, "Kerry had tried to distinguish between his own trips to meet with the Vietnamese in Paris, which he considered necessary to fight through the lies of his own government, and actual negotiations with the enemy, which Kerry knew were illegal." Corsi said the Vietnamese communists have shown their gratitude to Kerry by displaying a photo of him at Ho Chi Minh City’s Protestors Hall of the War Remnants Museum. The photo of fellow anti-war activist and actress Jane Fonda also appears in the Women’s Museum in Saigon. "As soon as [Kerry] came onto the scene, [the Vietnamese communists] latched on to him like bees on to honey. [The communists] said ’This is a guy who tells our story, it will undermine the sympathy for the war in America,’" Corsi added. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #3 You can see pages from the files yourself at http://www.paperlessarchives.com/john_kerry.html and http://www.paperlessarchives.com/vvaw.html There also is a pdf of some of pages from the Kerry - VVAW FBI files at http://www.prweb.com/prfiles/2004/06/08/132432/JohnKerryFBIFiles.pdf |
| Posted by: Anonymous5187 2004-06-11 1:29:42 AM |
| #2 Article doesn't mention that Kerry was still a naval officer at the time. |
| Posted by: someone 2004-06-05 4:35:42 AM |
| #1 I find it especially interesting that within a month [or two] of meeting with Madam Binh, SKerry joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Hmmm... or perhaps I should adjust my tin hat.. From this Page of Quotes from WinterSoldier.com (A good read): Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. -- U.S. Code, Title 18, Part I, Chapter 45, Section 953: Private correspondence with foreign governments |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-06-05 12:48:55 AM |