[vacets-gen] [Discovered Paper: Hanoi directed Jonh Kerry in 1971]

[dinh mang]

"...But why were they unearthed now, just one week
before the Nov. 2 election? 

Corsi insisted the timing was unintentional."

I guess this is the "October surprise".

Mang 


--- Hai Tran <hai_v_tran at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Discovered papers:
> Hanoi directed Kerry
> Recovered Vietnam documents
> 'smoking gun' researchers claim
> 
> ---------------------------------
> Posted: October 26, 2004
> 1:00 a.m. Eastern
> 
> 
> 
> By Art Moore
> 
> ---------------------------------
> &copy;  2000 WorldNetDaily.com-->? 2004
> WorldNetDaily.com 
> The first documentary evidence that Vietnamese
> communists were directly steering John Kerry's
> antiwar group Vietnam Veterans Against the War has
> been discovered in a U.S. archive, according to a
> researcher who spoke with WorldNetDaily. 
> 
> John Kerry testifying before the Senate Foreign
> Relations Committee in 1971.
> One freshly unearthed document, captured by the U.S.
> from Vietnamese communists in 1971 and later
> translated, indicates the Viet Cong and North
> Vietnamese delegations to the Paris peace talks that
> year were used as the communications link to direct
> the activities of Kerry and other antiwar activists
> who attended. 
> Kerry insists he attended the talks only because he
> happened to be in France on his honeymoon and
> maintains he met with both sides. But previously
> revealed records indicate the future senator made
> two, and possibly three, trips to Paris to meet with
> Viet Cong leader Madame Nguyen Thi Binh then promote
> her plan's demand for U.S. surrender. 
> Jerome Corsi, a specialist on the Vietnam era, told
> WND the new discoveries are the "most remarkable
> documents I've seen in the entire history of the
> antiwar movement." 
> "We're not going to say he's an agent for Vietnamese
> communists, but it's the next thing to it," he said.
> "Whether he was consciously carrying out their
> direction or naively doing what they wanted, it
> amounted to the same thing ? he advanced their
> cause." 
> 
> Corsi, co-author of the Swift Boat Vets and POWs for
> Truth best-seller "Unfit for Command," and Scott
> Swett, who maintains the group's website, have
> posted a summary of the discovery on the website of
> Wintersoldier.com. 
> Corsi says the documents show how the North
> Vietnamese, the Viet Cong, the People's Coalition
> for Peace and Justice, the Communist Party of the
> USA and Kerry's VVAW worked closely together to
> achieve the Vietnamese communists' primary objective
> ? the defeat of the U.S. in Vietnam. 
> "I think what we've discovered is a smoking gun,"
> Corsi said. "We knew when we wrote 'Unfit for
> Command' that Kerry had met with Madame Binh and
> then promoted her peace plan. 
> "This document enables us to connect the dots," he
> emphasized. "We now have evidence Madame Binh was
> directing the antiwar movement ... and the person
> who implemented her strategy was John Kerry." 
> July 22, 1971, Kerry called on President Nixon to
> accept the plan at a press conference in which he
> surrounded himself with the families of POWs, a
> strategy outlined in the first document. 
> The two documents also connect the dots between the
> Vietnamese communists and the radical U.S. group
> People's Coalition for Peace and Justice through the
> person of Al Hubbard, a coordinating member of PCPJ
> and the executive director of VVAW while Kerry was
> its national spokesman. 
> "Al Hubbard and John Kerry were carrying out the
> predetermined agenda of the enemy in a coordinated
> fashion," Corsi said. "It's a level of collaboration
> that exceeded anything we had imagined." 
> 'Return the medals' 
> The second document, captured by U.S. military
> forces in South Vietnam May 12, 1972, urges
> Vietnamese officials to promote the antiwar
> activities in the United States. 
> Significantly, the fifth paragraph makes it clear
> the Vietnamese communists were using, for propaganda
> purposes, a protest described as taking place April
> 19-22, 1971. 
> 
> Kerry led Vietnam veterans in 1971 medal-toss
> protest.
> This coincides with the well-known "Dewey Canyon
> III" protest in Washington, D.C., highlighted by
> Kerry's Senate Foreign Relations testimony charging
> American soldiers with war crimes. 
> The document's description of the protest includes
> the "return the medals" event in which Kerry and
> other VVAW members threw their war decorations
> toward the steps of the Capitol. 
> Why now? 
> Corsi told WND the documents have been authenticated
> with "100 percent certainty." 
> But why were they unearthed now, just one week
> before the Nov. 2 election? 
> Corsi insisted the timing was unintentional. 
> "It's truly one of those accidents of how things
> develop in research," he said. "We did not spring
> any surprise, we just found these documents, and
> even the archivist didn't know they were there." 
> Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth dispatched two
> researchers to Texas Tech University's Vietnam-era
> archive in Lubbock, which has more than 2 million
> documents, to "see if there was anything there,"
> Corsi said. 
> Many of the documents are in Vietnamese and have not
> been translated yet. 
> The two documents were found in boxes containing
> papers from antiwar activities during 1971-72, but
> they also turned out to be posted in an Internet
> database, which enabled further verification, Corsi
> said. 
> First document 
> The first document is a "circular" outlining the
> Vietnamese regime's strategies to coordinate its
> propaganda effort with its orchestration of U.S.
> antiwar group activities. 
> The spontaneous antiwar movements in the US have
> received assistance and guidance from the friendly
> ((VC/NVN)) delegations at the Paris Peace Talks.
> The phrases in double parentheses were added by U.S.
> translators for clarification. "VC" refers to the
> Viet Cong, while "NVN" is the North Vietnamese
> government. 
> Corsi and Swett point out that FBI files show Kerry
> returned to Paris to meet with the North Vietnamese
> delegation in August 1971 and planned a third trip
> in November. 
> Corsi emphasizes that before the discovery of this
> document, he and other researchers had no direct
> evidence that Hanoi actually was directing the
> antiwar movement to implement the regime's goals,
> although they assumed it to be the case based on
> other indications. 
> In her meeting with Kerry in Paris, Madame Binh
> instructed him on how he and the VVAW could "serve
> as Hanoi's surrogates in the United States," Corsi
> and Swett say. This included advancement of her
> seven-point peace plan forcing President Nixon to
> set a date to end the war and withdraw troops. 
> Hanoi cleverly constructed the plan so that the only
> barrier to release of American POWs was Nixon's
> unwillingness to set a withdrawal date. 
> But as Corsi and Swett emphasize, the plan amounted
> to a virtual surrender that included payment of
> reparations and an admission the U.S. was the
> aggressor in an immoral war against the communists. 
> The circular underscores the impact of the peace
> plan on U.S. activists, stating: 
> "The seven-point peace proposal ((of the SVN
> Provisional Revolutionary Government)) not only
> solved problems concerning the release of US
> prisoners but also motivated the people of all walks
> of life and even relatives of US pilots detained in
> NVN to participate in the antiwar movement. 
> Another section of the circular, again highlighting
> the interconnectedness of the Vietnamese communists,
> the U.S. antiwar movement and politics in the U.S.
> and South Vietnam, says Nixon and South Vietnamese
> leader Thieu are "very embarrassed because the
> seven-point peace proposal is supported by the
> [South Vietnamese] people's ((political struggle))
> movement and the antiwar movements in the US. " 
> Therefore, the circular says, "all local areas,
> units, and branches must widely disseminate the
> seven-point peace proposal, step up the people's
> ((political struggle)) movements both in cities and
> rural areas, taking advantage of disturbances and
> dissensions in the enemy's forthcoming (RVN)
> Congressional and Presidential elections. They must
> coordinate more successfully with the antiwar
> movements in the US so as to isolate the Nixon-Thieu
> clique." 
> Second document 
> In addition to tying activities surrounding Kerry's
> 1971 protest to the direction of Vietnamese
> communists, the second document reveals the degree
> to which Hanoi worked with and through the People's
> Coalition for Peace and Justice. 
> Of the U.S. antiwar movements, the two most
> important ones are: The PCPJ ((the People's
> Committee for Peace and Justice)) and the NPAC
> ((National Peace Action Committee)). These two
> movements have gathered much strength and staged
> many demonstrations. The PCPJ is the most important.
> It maintains relations with us.
> Corsi and Swett note the House Internal Securities
> Committee in its 1971 Annual Report described the
> PCPJ as an organization strongly controlled by U.S.
> communists. 
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