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Lou P. Garrew wrote:


> No

Yes.

http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=2004060123330738

A major theme of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in 1971 
involved sending representatives to Paris and to Hanoi to meet with 
communist leaders.

John Kerry has admitted to meeting in 1970 in Paris with Madame Nguyen 
Thi Binh, the Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary 
Government, the "waiting-in-the-wings government" ready to take over 
South Vietnam once the Communists won. The Viet Cong operated as the 
military arm of the PRG. Kerry also met with representatives of the 
Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the official name of the North 
Vietnamese communist government in Hanoi. North Vietnam's lead delegate 
at that time was Le Duc Tho, who along with Ho Chi Minh was one of the 
original founders of the Communist Party of Indochina and one of North 
Vietnam's chief strategists.

On June 16, 1971, the communist Daily World newspaper quoted Kerry as 
planning a month-long trip to South Vietnam in July to report on "what 
is really happening" to the American soldiers over there. Newly released 
FBI files on the VVAW also report that John Kerry made a second trip to 
Paris in the summer of 1971 to meet again with the Vietnamese communist 
peace delegations and try to arrange a prisoner release.

The national VVAW leadership gathered in Kansas City from Friday, 
November 12, through Sunday, November 14 for a raucous meeting. Sparks 
started flying a couple of hours into the meeting when Steering 
Committee member Al Hubbard arrived from the airport by taxicab. 
Hubbard, a former Black Panther and the man who had appointed John Kerry 
to the VVAW leadership in the summer of 1970, had just returned from 
Paris where he had met with the Vietnamese communist delegations to the 
Paris Peace Talks. Hubbard reported that he had just concluded 
negotiations with the Vietnamese Communists and they were ready to 
release a group of American POWs to the VVAW, provided that the VVAW 
would send a delegation to Hanoi around Christmas. Hubbard told the 
group that the Communist Party USA had paid for his trip.

John Kerry, also a member of the 5-man Steering Committee, had long had 
a contentious relationship with Hubbard. After sharing an appearance on 
the NBC television show, "Meet the Press," on April 18, 1971 Kerry 
learned that Hubbard had not been an Air Force captain as he claimed, 
but only a sergeant. Later investigations showed that despite his 
stories of being wounded flying in combat, Hubbard had never been a 
pilot, and in fact had never been assigned to Vietnam.


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