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(Parts 1-2: Kerry Supporters: A-Z; Parts 3-6: KERRY)

When I heard a couple of names assoc. w/Kerry’s campaign that I recalled from his “anti-war days,” I decided to look them up just to be sure we weren’t dealing AGAIN with the VVAW. Unfortunately, we are (and more). The list below is made up of people working for Kerry’s campaign & also not directly associated with the campaign but supporting Kerry, some VVAW, some not... From just looking up info. on a few names, I realized that what one ends up with is a “snapshot” so to speak of entanglements of people & organizations of the left that are basically anti-U.S. intervention in the world, military or otherwise, “blame America first” & avoid conflict at all costs. These people want a Kerry administration because for one thing, it will be an “anti-war environment” within which they can flourish with their agendas--which if good or not for this country, you can decide. This is all I could do in this short time-- but I hope listing some of his friends/assocs. will help round out the man who claims he will protect this country & continue to wage the war on terrorists. Here’s a few people who want this man to be president:

** About VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War): Do your own research; check out the Winter Soldier/VVAW site HERE; go to wintersoldier.com; quick ref: 3/5/04 article re Kerry/VVAW (..Kerry had trouble discerning the line between legitimate dissent and collaboration with the enemy.) SOURCE

** 2004: Stmt from VVAW website: “As an organization, Vietnam Veterans Against the War cannot support candidates for public office. BUT IF VVAW COULD ENDORSE A CANDIDATE, THE LAST CANDIDATE FOR PUBLIC OFFICE THAT WE WOULD EVER ENDORSE WOULD BE GEORGE W. BUSH.”

** About IVAW (Iraq Veterans Against the War): SOURCE
** "WSI" stands for "Winter Soldier Investigation"
** All refs. to FBI files can be found at wintersoldier.com: FBI Files

*** PART 1 (A-M: supporters of Kerry) ***

BANGERT, Joe (former VVAW; endorses VVAW, VAIW, fundraiser/IVAW)
--9/07/70: With Kerry/Fonda at Operation RAW (Rapid American Withdrawal), Valley Forge, PA
--1/31/71: Bangert:/WSI: “..the men were afraid to complain about such atrocities because those who complained were subject to harsh discipline by company commanders.” FBI/Sec. 2, p38: data on flyer about WSI testimony being handed out: “JOE BANGERT, 22, Sgt. E-5, helicopter gunner…(1968-69), PA resident, testifies to the disembowlment and skinning of Vietnamese woman …by an American, after she was killed by ARVNs. Body was hung on a tree as a “warning” to other “gooks.” He further testifies to killing villagers-20 or more women, children, old men-- in helicopter assaults near Cam Lo, and of civilians shot without provocation along Highway 1 near Dong Ha in Oct. 1969.”
--4/20/71: FBI File (S1,SubA,p102, newspaper): “Joe Bangert wore fatigues..medals.. Bangert said he earned the wings in 1968 during incursions into Laos.”
--1970-71: “like Kerry, traveled to Paris to meet with the No. Vietnamese & Viet Cong delegations. Bangert recalled the highlight for him was getting to sing "The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh" for the assembled guests. He boasts of having performed the ballad more than 1,000 times in public. Bangert wore a shirt for the occasion with the Viet Cong flag.” (On Peggy Seeger (sister of Pete) website, a bragging email from Joe Bangert about singing this song (no date):<SOURCE>
--12/29/71: FBI (S1,SubA,p47-53): Multiple protests: VVAW blocked entrance to Statue of Liberty..a small American flag was hung upsidedown...was illuminated thru windows of Liberty’s torch; placed a coffin in front of Lincoln Statue; ..several vets threw what they said were bags of blood on the sidewalk” at the White House; Bangert said, “I believe we rekindled the anti-war, the peace movement..”
--1997: “Bangert was one of three former VVAW members to pay tribute in Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh on his birthday. He joined Chuck Searcy and Eric Herter May 19– which was also the 30th anniversary of the founding of the VVAW. <SOURCE>
--2003: At Joe’s Pub in NY went on stage to sing “Ballad of Ho Chi Minh” in original Vietnamese (ode to the Pres. of No. Vietnam): <SOURCE>.
**** Bangert sings "The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh": <AUDIO> ****
--2004: Signed on, with many others, as an “endorser of VAIW at their website (see Cline).
--1/30/04: “Brewster Vet Helps Drive Kerry Political Engine” by Debi Stetson: <SOURCE>
--2004: Signed VVAW Letter of Support at their website.
--2004: Supports Kerry-- NH/working on Kerry campaign.
--8/29/04: "Passed the torch" to IVAW representatives during pre-GOP convention demonstrations in New York City <SOURCE>
--4/21/06: Hosts Cape Cod pre-screening of "Sir! No Sir!" <SOURCE>
--1/27/08: IVAW Winter Soldier Fundraiser <SOURCE>

Reference

One of Kerry's Band of Brothers: Joe Bangert - by Steve Gilbert; American Thinker; Aug 25, 2004
John Kerry's Fellow Travelers - by Fedora; Free Republic; Nov. 11, 2004

BARNES, Randy (former VVAW)
--7/28/71: FBI File (S5,p70-82): Docs. involving Barnes as plaintiff (along with VVAW) in a class action lawsuit against legal authorities for intelligence gathering & arrest of VVAW member carrying flag upsidedown at 7/4/71 Kansas City, MO march. They wanted a permanent injunction restraining law enforcement from enforcing Sect. 26.125, Desecrating the Flag.”
--11/17/71: Headed the Kansas VVAW Chapt that hosted the meeting that involved assassination plot.
--11/26/71: FBI File (S9,p187): “advised that a Kansas City, VVAW meeting was held on 10/19/71..at this meeting was the pres..Randy Barnes...”
--3/15/04: Article-“Kerry camp hiring ‘assassin’? Man who plotted murder of congressmen offered job.” <SOURCE>
--4/30/04: Article: “Unanswered Questions: John Kerry & the Infamous Kansas City Meeting.” <SOURCE>
--2004: Supports Kerry--current head of MO Vets for Kerry

BARRY, Jan (f/k/a: Jan Barry Crumb) (former VVAW)
--1967: founder of VVAW
--Jan/Feb 1971: Helped organize (w/Fonda & others of the Citizens Commission of Inquiry (CCI)) the WSI in an attempt to link American policies to individual atrocity stories of veterans. He was a moderator at WSI in Detroit
--2004: has his own website, indicates he is a “moderator for IVAW”. Signed on, with many others, as an endorser of VAIW and listed as a contact at their website (see Cline for link).
--9/04: Attended the VVAW pass torch to IVAW rally: <SOURCE>
--2004: Supports Kerry

BUTLER, George (long-time Kerry friend)
--1971: Editor/photographer for “The New Soldier”
--9/04: Director of “Going Up River: The Long War of John Kerry”
--9/13/04: Boston Globe--“While the film includes about 2 minutes of clips from that Senate appearance, Kerry’s testimony about atrocities is left out. Butler said, ‘You can’t get everything in a movie. I did cover Winter Soldier, which almost no one else has done, that formed the basis for his atrocity testimony,” Butler noted. <SOURCE>
--2004: Supports Kerry.

CAMIL, Scott (former VVAW/ WSI - current VVAW-AI & IVAW)
--Jan/Feb 1971: WSI: told of men in his unit cutting the hands off slain enemy soldiers. He said they had orders to stop such practices when newsmen were present. WSI Panel: 1st Marine Div: “..Burning of villages with civilians in them, the cutting off of ears, cutting off of heads, torturing of prisoners, calling in of artillery on villages for games,.. women and children being massacred, CS gas used on people, ..tear-gassing people for fun..” (At the link, do a name search-“Camile”) <TESTIFIED>
--4/13/71: FBI File (S2,p182): “advised Scott Camil.. organized the WSI held at Gainesville, FL on 4/7/71.”
--4/23/71: Senate Ad Hoc Hearing for VVAW: “We were on a search & destroy operation & two Vietnamese,..killed by the Marines on the operation, had their heads cut off, & we put them on top of stakes & stuck them in the middle of the field.. We tortured our prisoners.. We had what we called the free fire zones. This meant to us, one, we could call in artillery rounds... It also meant anything live was to be killed.” <TESTIFIED>
--6/71: FBI File (S8,p135): Camil is VVAW Regional Coord. for FL,AL,GA
--11/18/71: FBI File (S11,p191-92): 11/12/71 party after meeting: “Camil bragged..he had a training range in either Fl or GA but would not divulge the location..proposed ‘readiness groups’ of the ‘Phoenix type’..meant political assassinations..he had training ranges for rifle, pistol, and mortar practice..” (S9,p.219): Scott Camil..attended the VVAW..Steering Committee meeting held at KS, MO on 11/14/71.
--11/19/71: FBI (S.10,p.8)- At 11/13 meeting: “Proposed “Phoenix Operation,”..proposed by a nat’l. leader, possibly Hubbard? Proposal would have called for a well-trained VVAW group in WDC to kidnap a U.S. Senator, Rep. or Gov’t. official to hold for ransom to pressure for ending of the war.”
--11/71: Attended 11/71 meeting of VVAW in Kansas City where the VVAW debated killing members of Congress. Gerald Nicosia’s 2001 book “Home To War” reports that one of the key leaders of the VVAW, Scott Camil, “proposed the assassination of the most hard-core conservative members of Congress, as well as any other powerful, intractable opponents of the antiwar movement. “My plan was that, on the last day we would go into the (congressional) offices we would schedule the most hardcore hawks for last— and we would shoot them all,” Camil told the Oral History interviewer. “I was serious.” Camil was known to colleagues in the anti-war movement as “Scott the Assassin.” <SOURCE>
--(“Unanswered Questions: John Kerry & the Infamous Kansas City Meeting,” by Patrick J. Buchanan, 4/30/04:<SOURCE>
--11/26/71: FBI (S.10,p43): “It was felt that Hubbard & Camil are closely aligned which might have overall detrimental effect to future of VVAW & its previous political posture.”
--2003: Press Release (VVAW-AI website)--“Veterans Call to Conscience Speakers Bureau-- Avail. for Nat’l. & Int’l. Press”: Camil’s posted resume: “20 months in Vietnam, 2 Purple hearts. SE Regional Coord. VVAW 1971-1973. Gainesville 8 def. 1972-73. Founder Gainesville Veterans for Peace 1987. VFP Central American fact finding trip, 1987. Eastern U.S. Coord., Vietnam Friendship Village project. Member, VVAW-AI. Green Party Agent, Alachua County FL. St. Johns Sierra Club Exec. Committee member, Political. Draft counselor, Central Committee for Conscience Objectors, Alachua ”
--3/15/04: “Kerry camp hiring ‘assassin’?: <SOURCE>
--2004: Supports Kerry. (He said he plans to accept an offer by the FL Kerry org. to become active in Kerry’s presidential campaign-- Campaign aides to Kerry invited Camil to a meeting for the sen. in Orlando, but they did not meet directly.)

CLARK, Ramsey (attorney for VVAW in 70s)
--3/1/04: Accuracy In Media: “Ramsey Clark Endorses John Kerry” by Cliff Kincaid: “One of the leading “America bashers” on the political scene today has endorsed John Kerry for president. ..Clark traveled to Hanoi .. visited American POWs held by Hanoi, falsely declaring that they were in good health & their conditions ‘could not be better.’ ..Clark & Kerry were strongly against the Reagan policy of supporting the anti-communist “Contra” freedom fighters in Nicaragua. ...More recently, Clark has been collaborating with the communist Workers World Party (WWP) in staging “anti-war” demonstrations against U.S. Iraq policy... <SOURCE>
--2004: Supports Kerry/endorsed for President.

CLINE, David (VVAW, VAIW, VFP & IVAW --joined VVAW in 1970, was member then while still on active duty, Army-Ft. Hood)
--2004: Signed on, with many others, as an “endorser of VAIW at their website, & listed under “About Us” at that website: <SOURCE>
--2004: Pres. of Vets For Peace, formed in 1986. 5-fold stmt. of purpose: to educate the public to the true costs of war; to work to restrain our gov't. from intervening in the domestic affairs of other countries; to work for nuclear disarmament; to seek justice for veterans & victims of war; & to work for the abolition of war. (accepts non-vets into the org.)-- VFP endorses/sponsors the Bring Them Home Now campaign, demanding the repatriation of all troops in Iraq to their home bases. (donations to IVAW at their website are made payable to: VFP)
--2004: Assoc. with IVAW thru VFP
--2004: A National Coord. for the VVAW
--9/04: Attended the pass the torch to IVAW rally: the Invasion of Iraq had DEEP parallels with Vietnam. For starters, yet another immoral, illegal war…He’s been working tirelessly...to bring the collective experience of VVAW to the grunts in uniform in the chaos, that is Iraq. “The torch is being passed”, says Dave. “Right here, Right now, my long-time dream is coming true, & the Torch is being PASSED!”. (we have “new winter soldiers”) <SOURCE>
--2004: On the Advisory Committee of VETPAC (Veterans Alliance For Security & Democracy). <SOURCE>. VETPAC endorses John Kerry. (VETPAC is assoc. with VIFSD, see Michael Hoffman and Gen. McPeak data)
--2004: Supports Kerry.

CONYERS, Jr., Rep. John (D-MI)
--1969: Founding member of Congressional Black Caucus
--2/71: WSI-Detroit (see: Sixties Project, “Third World Panel”): (note: do a name search at the site, he’s down a ways in the text): <SOURCE>. Congressman Conyers recalled similar reports he received during his 1969 tour of Vietnam. “The charges that our command office sanctioned interrogation by torture & other brutal acts, the occurrence of atrocities without investigation or punishment, and that racism still pervades our Armed Forces require complete disclosure. I shall ask for the full transcript of the WSI hearings and I will propose that these veterans be brought to Wash. to deliver their testimony before the appropriate Congressional authorities.”
--4/1/71: FBI File (S2,p159): Per VVAW notice, supporters of WSI included “Congressman Conyers (D-Mich)”.
--2004: “Conyers..has worked diligently to turn back the war effort against Iraq. Last Congress, he voted against Joint House Resolution 114 which gave the Pres. the authority to invade Iraq... Additionally, Conyers has spoken at anti-war demonstrations & written letters to the Administration asking that it meet with the Members of Congress who oppose the war. Further, Conyers also met with Sec'y Gen. Kofi Annan to reinforce to the Secretary that many members of Congress fully support the United Nations & encouraged him to remain focused in asserting the UN role as an arbiter of peace. (from Bio: <SOURCE>
--2004: Supports Kerry-- actively campaigning for John Kerry <SOURCE>

CRANDELL, William F. (WSI; former VP of VVAW)
--1968: in VVAW: By spring of 1970, was the sole midwest coord. of VVAW
--9/7/70: Operation RAW-with Fonda/Kerry (Rapid American Withdrawal), wrote a couple of the leaflets
--Jan/Feb 1971: Involved in WSI: “I had been the only one who did not have an atrocity story of my own to tell.” (wrote & presented the opening stmt at the WSI in Detroit).
--4/71: Dewey Canyon III: FBI File (S1, SubA,p102, newspaper: “Armed with toy M-16 rifles that sounded..real, the protestors swarmed over the front steps of the old Senate office bldg., their leader, Bill Crandell of OH..shouting encouragement, “Keep an eye out for these gooks! Shoot the -- Body count! We need a body count!” Crandell hollared.”
--6/71: FBI File (S8,p136): Crandell is VVAW Regional Coordinator for OH,IN,WV
--Crandell wrote -- “the WSI also broke the story, then classified, of the 3rd Marine Div’s major border crossing into Laos, called Operation Dewey Canyon. Although the Pentagon immediately denied the story, its credibility was undermined by the timing of the testimony, which occurred the same day that marines publicly launched Operation Dewey Canyon II in support of So. Vietnamese troops invading Laos.”
--(this is posted by VVAW): No date/Article by William F. Crandell: “They Moved the Town-- Organizing VVAW”. Crandell notes: “This is an organizer-historian's memoir & an oral history of organizing VVAW.” <SOURCE>
--8/04: (posted at VAIW website): “Coming Home to Protest our Vietnam War-- A letter to America,” by Crandell: “..I’m still in touch with a lot of those guys, & even the ones who won’t forgive Jane Fonda understand why I did what I did. …The testimony John Kerry gave was a summary, eloquently stated, of those testaments from veterans who could not keep silent. It did not say all or even most Americans in Vietnam committed war crimes. It did say such crimes were being committed as the natural result of policies made in Washington….” <SOURCE>
--2004: Supports Kerry by posting articles at VVAW & VAIW sites

CURRY, Ph.D., G. David (current VVAW Nat’l. Staff; Vietnam vet)
--4/85: “Sunshine Patriots-- Published by Univ of Notre Dame Pr, by David Curry.
--11/21/00: “Clinton Pardons Viet Vet in Drug Case”- Mobile Register, by Joe Danborn: Pres. Clinton issued a full pardon to Curry, who..was convicted in 1982 of arranging cocaine deals for fellow Vietnam veterans....was sent to a prison... paroled after about 14 months...has long since acknowledged poor judgment on his part...his continued activism.. He has served as a nat’l. board member for the Boys and Girls Club of America, as well as a group called VVAW. .. Sessions said he did not disagree with Clinton's choice to pardon Curry, although he saw political undertones. "I'm sure that since he was a war protester and all that, the Clinton Admin. would be more favorable to him than they would have been otherwise," Sessions said." <SOURCE>
--2004: Assoc. Professor at the Univ. of Missouri
--2004: VVAW National Staff
--2004: Spring issue of “The Veteran” at the VVAW website. A book review of “Stolen Valor”-Burkett, by Curry. He ends his review with: “..Whatever you do, don't BUY this book. Burkett wants to recover his stolen valor by stealing the valor of thousands of other Vietnam veterans. Burkett does have, however, one big fan. Last year Pres. George W. Bush pinned the Army Decoration of Distinguished Civilian Service on Burkett's chest. Since Burkett's ability at researching military records is so good, I'm surprised that he hasn't been able to find his president's missing military records..”
--2004: Supporter of John Kerry by way of belonging to VVAW, anti-war group & writing articles against Cheney & Bush.

DODD, Sen. Christopher J. (D-CT)
--1985: “Kerry said that he was ‘as mad as anyone’ that Ortega went to Moscow. But Conn. Sen. Chris Dodd said, ‘Where did my colleagues think he was going to go? Disney World? The man is a Marxist.’ The Globe reporters said that Kerry was accused of ‘cavorting with, and [being] used by, the Communists.’ <SOURCE>
--4/86: Iran/Contra hearings (member of Tower Commission)
--2004: Supports Kerry --on Kerry-Edwards National Veteran Steering Committee

DuBOSE, Terry (former VVAW)
--6/71: FBI File (S8,p135): DuBose is VVAW Regional Coordinator for TX. (S8,p161-162): “Nat'l VVAW News: Conf. of VVAW regional coords. was held in St. Louis on June 4&5. Terry DuBose..attended this meeting. Several upcoming nat’l. programs were discussed.. vets to lobby and fast in support of the Hatfield-McGovern amendment.. On 6/19, there will be a National Day of Solidarity with the United Front of Cairo, IL.. open race war in the streets in recent months..will meet to find concrete ways VVAW can support them... Other news (redacted) will be attending the Int’l. Peace Conf. with such notables as Jean-Paul Sartre, in Norway this month. They are being flown to the conf. by some NY peace people.. If you can pick up the Dick Cavett show on TV, you can see a debate between VVAW people and reps. of the newly-formed VV For a Just Peace on 6/30...you know that the debate won’t be much of a contest, but it should be amusing..”
--11/71: At VVAW meeting re assassination; said Kerry was there.
--8/4/04: Supports Kerry. (“Those who take issue with John Kerry's military record should compare it to George W. Bush's.. ‘Winter Soldiers’ was shown at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival last year. Anyone who believes Vietnam was not a mistake should watch this film” <SOURCE>

ELLSBERG, Daniel (formerly assoc. with VVAW; now VAIW)
--1965-67: worked at US Embassy in Saigon
--6/30/71: Helped write, and leaked pentagon papers (a special assistant to the assist. sec’y. of defense at the Pentagon during the Vietnam War. He leaked 7,000 pages stamped “top secret” to the Senate & 19 newspapers. (see Morton Halperin)
--8/4/71: FBI File (S5,p230): 8/26/71 Denver Post had an article regarding Kerry speaking to Nat’l. Student Assoc. Congress at Ft. Collins, CO on 8/25/71. Kerry indicates he has been to Paris & spoken with the enemy. Other speakers with Kerry were: Sen. McGovern, Rep. Pete McClosky and Dr. Daniel Ellsberg.
--3/18/03: VVAW Press Release - Veterans Against Iraq War- will hold teach-in along with Bobby Muller: <SOURCE>
--2004: “Truth Telling Project”- urging people to leak secret gov’t. docs. <SOURCE>
--7/12/04: “Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Calls for Nat'l Security Leaks,” by Martha Mendoza: <SOURCE>
--2004: Signed on, with many others, as an “endorser of VAIW at their website (see Cline for link).
--4/20/04: Supports Kerry: “Ellsberg displayed an unabashed show of partisanship, saying Sen. John Kerry of MA, .. ‘must replace Bush.. I want him elected, but I'm not happy with what I'm hearing,’ he said, quoting Kerry as saying that because the U.S. already is in Iraq, 'We must persevere. We can't leave.' I hope that is a campaign promise he [Kerry] will go back on." <SOURCE>

FONDA, Jane (supports VVAW, then and now)
--11/22/70: "I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become communist. The peace proposal of the Viet Cong is the only honorable, just, possible way to achieve peace in Vietnam." Timeline at wintersoldier.com: <SOURCE>
--9/7/70: Operation RAW. FBI File (S8,p245): “During the rally at Valley Forge Nat’l. Park..crowd addressed by actress Jane Fonda..expressed views in opposition to U.S. policy in Vietnam.” (S8,p.247): “This is not my country right or wrong. It is my country but what is wrong must be changed. I can’t escape the belief that My Lai was not an isolated incident but rather a way of life for many of our military.”
1/71: Raises funds for the WSI thru a series of benefit concerts: Timeline at wintersoldier.com: <SOURCE>
--4/1/71: FBI File (S2,p159): Per VVAW notice, supporters of WSI included “Jane Fonda”.
--3/14/71: In Paris meets privately w/Madame Binh of the PRG, ..then in London, alleges American atrocities that incl. "applying electrodes to prisoners' genitals, mass rapes, slicing off of body parts, scalping, skinning alive & leaving 'heat tablets' around which burned the insides of children who ate them. Timeline at wintersoldier.com: <SOURCE>
--7/8/72: Visits Hanoi, where she makes radio broadcasts to American & So. Vietnamese military personnel encouraging mutiny & desertion, while repeatedly claiming that the U.S. is committing war crimes in Vietnam. Fonda also visits American prisoners, reporting on the air that they are being "well cared for" and that they wished to convey their "sense of disgust of the war & their shame for what they have been asked to do." Upon leaving North Vietnam, Fonda accepts from her hosts a ring made from the wreckage of a downed American plane. Timeline at wintersoldier.com: <SOURCE>
--4/73: she calls the freed American POWs "hypocrites and pawns," insisting that, "Tortured men do not march smartly off planes, salute the flag, & kiss their wives. They are liars. I also want to say that these men are not heroes." Timeline at wintersoldier.com: <SOURCE>
9/17/04: when a reporter asked Fonda about the photo of her & Kerry together at a 1970 Vietnam War protest, she reacted by drawing a parallel between that war & the war in Iraq. Saying Bush's decision to go to war was based on "a lie," Fonda complained, "I agree with the military experts who say it's a quagmire." The America-bashing actress then urged voters to back Kerry over Bush, saying: "I don't think there's ever been such a clear choice between radicalism & moderation. I mean, we are dealing with a radical ideologue here." <SOURCE>
--2004: Signed the VVAW Letter of Support at their website.
--2004: Supports Kerry

HALPERIN, Mark (ABC NEWS; son of Morton Halperin)
--10/14/04: Halperin controls ABC’s coverage of a presidential campaign in which his father helps control organizations hard at work for the election of ..Kerry. ..ABC..should at least practice truth in labeling by disclosing to its audience Halperin’s partisan paternal political connection to the Kerry election effort.. <SOURCE> (Mark’s father: See Morton Halperin.)
--2004: supports Kerry by actions on ABC (??)

HALPERIN, Morton (father of Mark Halperin/ABC News; and assoc. w/Soros)
--1971: involved with Ellsberg in leaking Pentagon Papers. <SOURCE>
--9/20/93: He is one of a number of former gov’t. officials who for decades have been actively assoc. with a network of hard-core Marxist organizations operating in our nation's capital. <SOURCE>
--2004: Today is Sr VP of the left-wing Center for American Progress (CAP) & Dir. of the Open Society Policy Center established by eccentric billionaire int’l. financier George Soros.
“CAP”--created/led by John D. Podesta, former Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton. CAP is also known as “the official Hillary Clinton think tank.” <SOURCE>
--2004: Supports Kerry (attended George Soros’ 7/17/03 meeting in Southampton, along with John Podesta & others, at which Soros laid out his plan to defeat Pres. Bush.) <SOURCE>

HARKIN, Sen. Tom
--Lied about serving in Nam: he actually ferried planes from Japan to the Philippines during the war & then made up elaborate stories about having flown combat air patrols and recon missions over Viet Nam
--4/18/85: traveled with Kerry to Nicaragua & met with Ortega. Sen. Intelligence Committee Chairman Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), rebuked his colleagues & accused Kerry & Harkin of breaking the law and "transgressing" against the Constitution by holding unauthorized negotiations with a foreign leader...” <SOURCE>
--4/18/85: “The pair of Vietnam-era radicals held two days of secret talks with Sandinista junta leader Daniel Ortega, ..Kerry’s ‘peace proposal,’ included Sandinista promises of a cease-fire, as long as the U.S. cut off all assistance, ..to the anticommunist forces and their families. ‘This is a wonderful opening’ for peace, Kerry added of the Ortega plan, ‘without having to militarize the region.’ But ..it was nothing more than a ‘restatement of old positions,’ a State Depart. official said at the time.” <SOURCE>
--8/23/04: pulled from Kerry campaign for “logistical reasons”
--9/04: Supports Kerry--listed as on Nat’l Vet Steering Committee for Kerry.

HAYDEN, Tom (former CA Sen.; ex-husband of Jane Fonda)
--3/4/04: Hayden: “Twice the Repubs. in the CA legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi. But I was never a target of opportunity like my ex-.. Brinkley recounts how Kerry told Meet the Press that "I committed the same kinds of atrocities as thousands of others," ... By contrast, Brinkley condemns Fonda's 1972 visit to Hanoi as ‘unconscionable,’... Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable? In fact, Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said & did in North Vietnam.. If I were George W. Bush, I would be terrorized by the eyes of those scruffy-looking veterans, the so-called band of brothers, volunteering for duty with the Kerry campaign. They look like men with scores to settle, with a palpable intolerance toward the types who sent them to war for a lie.. They are gearing up for one last battle. Chickenhawks better duck.” <SOURCE>
--8/30/04: The website of a coalition of radical groups, A31.. A31's website features a message from Tom Hayden, the pro-Communist Vietnam War protester, former husband of Jane Fonda, & member of the "Chicago 7" who encouraged disruptions at the 1968 Dem. convention. <SOURCE>
--2004: Supports John Kerry.

HOAR, Gen. Joseph (USMC-Retired, Former CIC, Cent Command. Vietnam Vet.- assoc w/VVAW & IVAW thru VETPAC)
--2004: On Advisory Committee of “VETPAC- Veterans Alliance For Security and Democracy” (along with Committee members: David Cline, VVAW/IVAW; & Mike Hoffman IVAW)-- VETPAC endorses John Kerry.
--2004: On Advisory Board of “Veterans Institute For Security & Democracy” (VIFSD). On 9/9/04, the VIFSD home page: attack on Swifts; justify Kerry Paris mtg, WSI & Senate testimony (as of 12/04, home page has changed, but look under "News" for some older articles): <SOURCE>
--9/12/04: Posted on IVAW website: Appeared on C-Span in a Press Conf., along with Mike Hoffman, Iraq vet (founder-IVAW) & Ivan Medina, another Iraq veteran, sponsored by Veterans Institute For Security & Democracy (“VIFSD”). The conf. was organized by VIFSD to counterattack Swift claims & the Kerry Lied Rally held on 9/12/04. In addition to the two soldiers above, it was attended by Col. Richard Klass, Pres. of VIFSD; & also attended by Generals McPeak & Hoar, both on Advisory Board of VIFSD; & it is not mentioned, but both of these men also serve on the Advisory Committee of VETPAC--along with David Cline & Mike Hoffman].
--2004: Supports Kerry- on Kerry Nat’l. Vets Steering Committee

HOFFMAN, Michael (founder IVAW)
--Iraq war veteran
--9/04: attended the VVAW pass torch to IVAW rally. <SOURCE>
--2004: Along with David Cline, on the Advisory Committee of VETPAC (Veterans Alliance For Security and Democracy). <SOURCE>. VETPAC endorses John Kerry.
--9/12/04: Appeared on C-Span in a Press Conf., with Ivan Medina, another Iraq veteran, sponsored by Veterans Institute For Security & Democracy (“VIFSD”). The conf. was organized by VIFSD to counterattack Swift claims & the Kerry Lied Rally held on 9/12/04. In addition to the two soldiers above, it was attended by Col. Richard Klass, Pres. of VIFSD; & also attended by Generals McPeak & Hoar, both on Advisory Board of VIFSD; and it is not mentioned, but both of these men also serve on the Advisory Committee of VETPAC--along with David Cline & Mike Hoffman]. Article about this Press Conf. posted on the VAIW website: <SOURCE>
--2004: Supports Kerry

HURLEY, John (former VVAW)
--on return from Nam, accused US troops of being war criminals, including the battalion in which he served.
--8/22/04: John Kerry's spokesman on veterans issues, John Hurley announced on Fox News Sunday that John Kerry was right when he accused US troops of committing atrocities against civilians. <SOURCE> Tom Perdue who served in same battalion was so outraged by Hurley's lies that he tracked him down & confronted him with his own slanders. Hurley was forced to admit that he had slandered his comrades. Yet he refused to correct the public record. <SOURCE>
--(“Battalion Still ‘Sullied’ by Kerry Aide’s Claim,” 8/25/04 by Art Moore): <SOURCE>
--2004: Supports Kerry-- Kerry campaign/ spokesman on Veterans issues

KARBER, Phil (Vietnam Vet)
--2004: Living in Hanoi, Vietnam (calls Pres Bush a draft dodger)
--8/21/04: supports Kerry (photo shows him wearing a “Vote for Kerry” T-shirt in Hanoi). Sauvageot, Searcy, Lancaster & Karber, in Vietnam: <SOURCE>
--8/21/04: same group: <SOURCE>

KELLY, Kevin (founded VVAW with Crumb)
--7/20/04: Kelly & Jan Barry Crumb organized VVAW, an organization that still exists & opposes the war in Iraq. "He was a ball of energy, very articulate," remembers Crumb, now a reporter for the Bergen Record in New Jersey. ... "That war was a revolution and we were supporting a dictator," Kelly said. “55,000 people died for political purposes, they were like political fodder & that didn't seem right to me." <SOURCE>
--2004: Supports Kerry-- major local supporter in Memphis, TN of Kerry campaign

KENNEDY, Sen. Edward (supporter of VVAW)
--1962: Kerry worked for Kennedy's first election to the Senate.
--5/68: had VVAW members involved on his campaign: (FBI Sec.01,p42-43): “Source stated that an unidentified male in the VVAW office told him that the organization was disbanding as some of the individuals who have been active in the VVAW are going to help in the McCarthy campaign while others are going to assist the Kennedy campaign.”
--10/69: Kerry piloted a plane for Adam Walinsky, a former speechwriter for Robert F. Kennedy, & Ted Kennedy’s advisor, so Walinsky could deliver anti-war speeches.
--10/15/69: Moratorium march on Washington: This was the first documented major antiwar protest that John Kerry attended. (7/69: Peter Collier & David Horowitz, then top activists on the pro-Hanoi left, later wrote that militant activists went in July to "meet Cuban and Vietnamese officials in Havana to map out strategies for the war in America, the 'other war' which would ultimately defeat the U.S.") Nat'l Review reported at the time that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was one of the endorsers of the Moratorium. <SOURCE>
--4/2/71: FBI File dated 11/30/71 (S10,p180): In 4/2-15/71 ed. of the “Daily Planet”..interview with Mike McCusker re WSI: “Sens. McGovern & Kennedy are pushing for official investigations from within the Senate.”
--4/71: helped arrange Kerry’s testimony with Senator Fulbright at a private fundraising event held at the home of Dem. Senator Philip A. Hart of Michigan.
--4/12/71: FBI File (S2,p219): Per VVAW March 1971 letter: “Sens. McGovern & Kennedy & 20-some Congressmen have indicated agreement to meet with us to accept our demands.”
--4/21/71: FBI File (S1,SubA,p95, newspaper): Democrats ate & laughed it up..at a political dinner... After the party, Edward Kennedy went home, changed clothes & came back to drink wine & sing songs with the vets until 3:00 a.m. Lexington Oral History, Christopher Gregory, p.22: “The Mass. delegation was wonderful; particularly Sen. Kennedy... He offered his office to us. Actually came out to the Mall where we were staying at night, ... he came into the tent with two guys with him, one guy with a cardboard box. He said, “Who is in charge here? Is anybody in charge?” Somehow he knew Kerry. So Kerry comes up and they shake hands. They talk.. so he says.. “Show him what’s in the box.”...He was very jovial... Are you all comfortable? is there anything I can do? What do you need? ...introduced himself to everybody. He was very energetic, very happy.. Then he says, “Show them what’s in the box.” Here are two bottles of whiskey, ..a bottle of wine, a six-pack of beer,.. “Let’s pass this around.”.. Then he says, “Can any of you guys sing? ..So pretty soon here this man is a one-man party. We’re singing Irish songs.. People are dancing around.. The guy really knew what we were doing there. You felt, “This guy knows what we want.” ..He said, “You want to call home? Just come to my office. I think you guys might need showers after awhile. If you do, you come. This is how we’re going to do this. Here is the contact person on my staff. Anybody need money? Any medical emergencies or anything? Call me, I’ll have somebody come down here and get you.” <SOURCE>
--4/22/71: When Kerry was invited to testify before the Sen. Foreign Relations Committee that week, Kennedy arranged for 100 of Kerry's group to be admitted to the hearing room
--1970s: “After he was released from the Hanoi Hilton in 1973, McCain publicly complained that testimony by Kerry and others..was ‘the most effective propaganda (my No. Vietnamese captors) had to use against us.’..Sen. Ted Kennedy, a key Kerry presidential backer, was ‘quoted again and again’ by jailers at the Hanoi Hilton, McCain said.” <SOURCE>
--9/04: Supports Kerry-- on Kerry’s Nat’l Vet Steering Committee

KERREY, Bob (former Sen./NE)
--8/14/04: “Why Kerry is Fit to be President” by Bob Kerrey (against SBVFT). <SOURCE>
--9/26/04: Statement re: SBVFT: “This ad is dishonest. As the Vice-Chairman of the Sen. Intelligence Committee, I worked with John Kerry & know first-hand of his commitment to protecting America & strengthening our intelligence. For over 30 years John Kerry has fought to defend America as a decorated war hero, as a prosecutor & as a U.S. Sen. Those who tell you otherwise simply aren't telling the truth.”
--2004: Supports John Kerry-- on Kerry National Vets Steering Committee

KERRY, Cameron (brother of John) -- see also Vallely
--9/18/72: the evening before the primary election during his second attempt for Congress, John Kerry's brother Cameron & Vietnam vet Thomas Vallely are arrested in Lowell, MA in the basement of a bldg that houses both Kerry's campaign headquarters & those of opposing candidate Tony DiFruscia. Cameron Kerry & Vallely are charged with breaking & entering with intent to commit larceny.
--2004: Supports Kerry /brother

KERRY, Diana (younger sister of John Kerry)
--2004: “Americans Overseas for Kerry” campaign. In Australia recently: "Australia has kept faith with the US & we are endangering the Australians now by this wanton disregard for int’l. law & multilateral channels," she said, referring to the invasion of Iraq. Asked if she believed the terrorist threat to Australians was now greater because of the support for Republ. George W. Bush, Ms Kerry said: "The most recent attack was on the Australian embassy in Jakarta-- I would have to say that.”
--5/9/04: Said has set up new website (created by people in Munich) for the registration of absentee ballots. “overseasvote2004.com”. People register right there at that site. She has been campaigning & getting people to vote in Mexico, Canada, Europe, London, Munich, Italy, Amsterdam, Spain. Says Kerry goals are: stronger U.S. in educ, health, jobs, & that he will be a leader within the global community & restore respect for the U.S. with the rest of the world: Audio link at bottom of article: <AUDIO>
--2004: Overseas voters registration set up by the Democratic party: <SOURCE>
--2004: Supports Kerry (sister)

LANCASTER, John (Vietnam vet)
--2004: Living in Hanoi, Vietnam -- calls Pres Bush a draft dodger.
--8/20/04: “The guy (Bush) doesn't deserve to be called a vet or a patriot or anything else,” said John Lancaster, of Hamburg, NY, who lost the use of his legs after being shot near Hue in 1968.
--8/21/04: See Karber for newspaper articles.
--2004: Supports Kerry.

McCARTHY, Eugene (former Sen.-MN; former supporter of VVAW)
--1966: He had joined the antiwar wing of the Dem. Party
--5/68: had VVAW members involved on his campaign: (FBI Sec.01,p42-43): “Source stated that an unidentified male in the VVAW office told him that the organization was disbanding as some of the individuals who have been active in the VVAW are going to help in the McCarthy campaign while others are going to assist the Kennedy campaign.”
--1968: Democratic primaries, challenged Johnson. Antiwar candidate. <SOURCE>
--4/21/71: FBI File, S1, SubA,p98: party at Sen. & Mrs. Philip Hart for vets, including John Kerry & Sen. Fulbright who “invited John Kerry...leader of the shaggy-haired veterans, to come up his Foreign Relations committee and tell their story during hearings... Mrs. Hart.. told of a phone call she had from former Sen. Eugene McCarthy who could not make the party because of an out-of-town commitment.”
--1971: Attended anti-war protests with Kerry. “Peter Yarrow, Kerry’s old friend from Peter, Paul, and Mary. ..waxed nostalgic about the antiwar rallies he attended way back when with Kerry and Eugene McCarthy.” <SOURCE>
--2002: Attended dem musical festival event with performer Outkast, billed as a family event (along with Kerry and McGovern): <SOURCE>
--3/1/03: VVAW press release-- O'Kelly McCluskey, WWII / Korean Veteran: Spoke out against French Imperialism backed by US reinstitution colonialism on Algeria and Vietnam. Threatened with a court martial & resigned his career rather than be silenced. Became a lawyer & endorsed by Sen. Eugene McCarthy as a Peace candidate for U.S. Congress (now a member of [b:06d2ec

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Beatrice,

Excellent work, I'm anxious to see the additional info! I agree, a "sticky" of this would be great!

The more I hear from Richard Klass (as well as the other people associated with Kerry), the more aggravated I get. I just spent the last half hour listening to Klass in this interview (link below), and it was very disturbing.
http://138.23.197.58/ian_masters/ian_masters_082204_80.mp3

[Beatrice1000]

*** PART 2 (M-Z: supporters of Kerry) ***

McCLOSKEY, Jr., Rep. Paul Norton (“Pete”) (R-CA) (former supporter of VVAW)
--4/13/71: Joined in Kerry’s protests: FBI File S2,p201: “Source advised that Paul McCloskey, U.S. Rep from Calif., will participate in the VVAW march.”
--8/4/71: FBI File (S5,p230): 8/26/71 Denver Post had an article regarding Kerry speaking to Nat’l. Student Assoc. Congress at Ft. Collins, CO on 8/25/71. Kerry indicates he has been to Paris and spoken with the enemy. Other speakers with Kerry were: Sen. McGovern, Rep. Pete McClosky and Dr. Daniel Ellsberg.
--1/30/04: Press Release From The Council For The National Interest: McCloskey appeared at public hearing to examine whether the Pres. has given in to the religious fundamentalists in America, provoking an increase in fundamentalism in the Muslim world. ...urged American voters to turn Pres. George W. Bush out of office in Nov. if he fails to reject the neoconservative policies of unilateral war and intervention in dealing with int’l. terrorism. This hearing will also propose a “4-Rs” nat’l. campaign that includes a plank for the immediate recognition of Palestine as an independent state. <SOURCE>
--9/14/04: Supports Kerry -- “If you’re a true Republican, you’ll vote for Kerry,” San Jose Mercury News

McCURRY, Mike
--1992: spokesman & political strategist in campaign of Sen. Bob Kerrey
--2004: is a principal of Public Strategies Group, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based public affairs and strategic communications consulting firm, where he has practiced since leaving the White House.
--9/14/04: hired by Kerry /press secy.

McDERMOTT, Jim (Rep. D-WA - assoc. with VFP, VVAW & IVAW)
--2003: Keynote Speaker at 2003 Nat’l. Convention of “Veterans For Peace” -- (“Defeating Militarism and the Politics of Fear”). (David Cline, VVAW, VFP, IVAW and O’Kelly McCluskey from VFP also spoke. See “Cline”)
--7/1/03: Posted at VFP site: “Fear Factory -- The Bush Admin. dangerous manufacturing of post-9/11 dread” by Jim McDermott: “...The deputies of the Bush Terror Posse -- Donald Rumsfeld, Tom Ridge and John Ashcroft -- are conducting a deliberate campaign to frighten us. <SOURCE>
--2004: Supports Kerry -- on National Vets Steering Committee for Kerry-Edwards

McGOVERN, Sen. George (former supporter VVAW)
--2/71: WSI: Michael Oliver makes the statement: “We have just rec’d. word from Det. that U.S. Sen. George McGovern (D-SD) & Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) called today for immediate investigation by the U.S. Senate & the House of Reps. of allegations arising from testimony given by a group of honorably discharged U.S. vets of war in Vietnam at the 3-day Winter Soldier Investigation being conducted in Detroit.” (see The Sixties Project - Third World Panel): (note: do a name search at the site, he’s down a ways in the text): <SOURCE>
--4/71: (See Crandell): Dewey Canyon III grew out of McGovern’s invitation to the VVAW at the end of the Winter Soldier Investigation to send a veteran to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. They selected John Kerry.
--4/13/71: FBI File, S2,p199-204: “Teletype April 12, 1971, to Bureau & SACS NY & Baltimore..source.. advised that an announcement was made on (redacted) that the VVAW had received $50,000 from U.S. Senators McGovern & Hatfield, who obtained..the money from an unknown NY source... Source learned that (redacted), a VVAW leader, indicated..money was no object.... Source reported that ... all necessary money had been obtained from NY & advised the (redact) chapter to ask NY for any needed funds..... NY. SUTEL anticipated NY support & attempt to ascertain origin of VVAW funds.”
--4/71: McGovern called all troops war criminals: (FBI file,S1,SubA,p.105): “At the Foreign Relations Committee hearing, the veterans gave a standing ovation to McGovern when he accused all American forces in Indochina of war crimes.”
--4/23/04: Sens. George McGovern & Philip Hart held hearings on atrocities committed by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam.
--4/2/71: FBI File dated 11/30/71 (S10,p.180): In 4/2-15/71 edition of the “Daily Planet”..interview with Mike McCusker re WSI: “Senators McGovern & Kennedy are pushing for official investigations from within the Senate.”
--4/12/71: FBI File (S2,p219): Per VVAW March 1971 letter: “Senators McGovern and Kennedy and 20-some Congressmen have indicated agreement to meet with us to accept our demands.”
--8/4/71: FBI File (S5,p230): 8/26/71 Denver Post had an article regarding Kerry speaking to Nat’l. Student Assoc. Congress at Ft. Collins, CO on 8/25/71. Kerry indicates he has been to Paris and spoken with the enemy. Other speakers with Kerry were: Sen. McGovern, Rep. Pete McClosky and Dr. Daniel Ellsberg.
--1972: Campaign Brochure: “Sen. McGovern has opposed our military intervention in Vietnam since 1963. He has pledged he will withdraw all our military forces and aid and bring home all our P.O.W.’s in his first 90 days as President.”
--2002: Attended dem musical festival event with performer Outkast, billed as a family event (along with Kerry and McCarthy) (“dems embrace gangsta culture” by Joseph Farah: <SOURCE>
--2004: supports Kerry. <SOURCE>

McPEAK, Gen. Merrill M. “Tony” (assoc.with VVAW & IVAW thru VETPAC)
--2004: On Advisory Committee of “VETPAC - Veterans Alliance For Security and Democracy” (along with Committee members: David Cline, VVAW/IVAW; and Mike Hoffman IVAW) -- VETPAC endorses John Kerry.
--2004: On Advisory Board of “Veterans Institute For Security & Democracy” (VIFSD). On 9/9/04, the VIFSD home page: attack on Swifts; justify Kerry Paris mtg, WSI & Senate testimony (Note: as of 12/04, home page has changed, but look under "News" for earlier posts): <SOURCE>
--9/12/04: Posted on IVAW website: Appeared on C-Span in a Press Conference, along with Mike Hoffman, Iraq vet (founder-IVAW) and Ivan Medina, another Iraq veteran, sponsored by Veterans Institute For Security & Democracy (“VIFSD”). The conference was organized by VIFSD to counterattack Swift claims and the Kerry Lied Rally held on 9/12/04. In addition to the two soldiers above, it was attended by Col. Richard Klass, Pres. of VIFSD; and also attended by Generals McPeak & Hoar, both on Advisory Board of VIFSD; and it is not mentioned, but both of these men also serve on the Advisory Committee of VETPAC---along with David Cline & Mike Hoffman].
--2004: Supports John Kerry -- on National Vets for Kerry-Edwards Steering Committee

MULLER (Mueller), Robert (Bobby) (VVAW; also IVAW)
7/23/71: Speech at Columbia Univ: “Is My Lai an isolated incident? Hell, no!... What have we done in Vietnam? Actually follow a policy of genocide? And it is genocide, because of the nature of the war. What we do is, try to win the minds of the people; & since we're doomed to fail, there's only one other answer: liquidate them. And that is what we've done. ..The revolution I'm talking about --an increased sensitivity on your part, ..& of your responsibility, as a citizen of this country, to be held accountable for, & to try to direct, what the USA is doing in your name.” <SOURCE>
--7/13/73: FBI File (S47,p285,295): “People’s House--Okinawa, Japan in possession of VVAW/WSO fliers & news releases..mailed 5/2/73.” Attachment ‘VVAW chapter list’ including the name and address of Bob Muller, Great Neck, NY.”
--1978: founded the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA). The VVA also describes John Kerry as a “co-founder” of the organization. In the late 1980s, Mueller and the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF) split from the VVA. Mueller led a VVAF delegation to Hanoi, where he praised the communist leadership of Vietnam and laid a wreath on the grave of Ho Chi Minh.
--3/18/03: VVAW Press Release - Veterans Against Iraq War - will hold teach-in with Daniel Ellsberg: <SOURCE>
--9/12/04: at anti-Kerry veterans rally: he got involved in a shouting match with the protestors; also attended a book signing of John O’Neill and disrupted the event.
--2004: on Nat’l Vet Steering Committee for Kerry as “Veteran Advocate”, NY

NOETZEL, Stephen S. (VVAW - supporter of IVAW)
--Dec 1-3, 1970: Nat’l. Vets Inquiry on US War Crimes in Vietnam, WDC (held by CCI*). “..There were field tables set up. They attached electrical wires to their wrists, necks, bottoms of their feet, & genitals. They asked them questions..An American sergeant, Special Forces.., had a switch under the table that activated the electrical shock..” <TESTIFIED>
* “CCI”--see Rottmann.
--1/31/71 & 2/1-2/71: WSI testimony, “Prisoner of War Panel, Part I”: “They were transporting..16 prisoners.. we got off the helicopter, there were exactly three prisoners left.. I went over to the American door gunner.. & I asked him what the __ happened, & he told me that they had pushed them out over the Mekong Delta. And I said, ‘Who?’ and he said, ‘The ARVN guards did...” At the link, do a name search: <TESTIFIED>
Prisoner of War Panel, Part V - report on POWs and leaflets. <TESTIFIED>
--7/23/71: FBI File (S5,p38-40): held a WSI in Garden City, NY. “WSI opened by Steve Noetzel...made a statement ‘My Lai was no unusual occurrence.’ Noetzel told of the deaths of 12 Vietcong soldiers who were thrown from helicopters in 1963. He also spoke of an alleged Green Beret tactic of throwing prisoners of war into a room with a python to make them cooperative and also of electric shock equipment used on prisoners.”
--9/7/04: Attended VVAW pass torch to IVAW rally. <SOURCE>
--2004: Supports Kerry -- West Coast organizer of Vets For Kerry --“Fire Bush/Exit Iraq”

RANGEL, Charles B. (Rep. D/NY) (supported WSI)
--4/1/71: FBI File (S2,p159): Per VVAW notice, supporters of WSI included “Rangel (D-NY)”.
--2004: Supports Kerry - on Kerry National Veterans Steering Committee

REED, Brenda D. (WAC & US Army Vet)
--2004: On Advisory Board of “Veterans Institute For Security & Democracy” (VIFSD). On 9/9/04, the VIFSD home page: attack on Swifts; justify Kerry Paris mtg, WSI & Senate testimony (as of 12/04, the home page has changed -- check under "news" for previous info): <SOURCE> (See McPeak re VIFSD and assoc. with VETPAC and the VVAW, IVAW)
--2004: Supports Kerry - Listed on Kerry website as Veterans State Coordinator/Iowa

ROBERTS, Cecil (Pres., United Mine Workers of America - assoc.with VVAW thru VETPAC)
--2004: On Advisory Committee of “VETPAC - Veterans Alliance For Security and Democracy” (along with Committee members: David Cline, VVAW/IVAW; and Mike Hoffman IVAW) -- VETPAC endorses John Kerry.
--9/7/04: Supports Kerry, appeared on stage with him -- “Kerry campaign steps up tough talk”: <SOURCE>

ROMO, Barry (VVAW -a founder of VVAW/WSO in 1971; & at IVAW website)
--Jan/Feb 1971: Moderated the “Americal Div. Panel Roster” at the WSI: “I represent the Chicano community… All it has been has been the atrocities that have been committed & not the reasons why. And it boils down to one thing, and that’s racism. <SOURCE>
--4/71: involved in Dewey Canyon protest and threw his ribbons
--6/71: FBI File (S8,p135): Romo is VVAW Regional Coordinator for CA,NV,HI
--12/72: Went to North Vietnam with peace delegation which included Joan Baez; Romo was the first combat veteran to visit Hanoi.
--4/19-23/73: FBI File (S47,p218): Nat’l. Steering Committee Meeting, Placitas, NM. Romo elected to another year term as nat’l. coordinator. (A proposal at this meeting: “..in the event of a major re-escalation of the war in Indochina, a plan to be drawn up to immediately implement militant responses to any escalation.”)
--8/4/73: FBI File (S47,p111): March in Chicago. “Jail Nixon,” “Free the Gainsville 8,” - Romo identified as demonstration leader.
--12/74: FBI Rpt. 12/15/75 (S75,p171-172): “VVAW/WSO leaders voted at the Nat’l. Steering Committee meeting to align with the RU, which organization follows a strict Maoist line designed to bring about violent revolution in the U.S.”
--10/29/75: FBI File (S75,p52,86): Romo elected 7/8/75 to 1-yr. term as Nat’l. Coordinator.
--1/6/76: FBI (S75,p197): Per “The Veteran,” Dec/Jan issue, the name of the organization has again been changed, this time back to the original VVAW.
--1987: Returned to Vietnam with VVAW delegation to experience what post-war society was like.
--In last 24 yrs has served 2 terms as Branch Pres. in Nat’l. Postal Mailhandlers Union, AFL-CIO
--5/26/04: Romo/Dave Curry Press Release: “Vietnam Veterans say Torture Policy not an aberration; dates back to Vietnam War.” --re: Iraq prison issues. Their statement in this release: “VVAW calls on policy makers to hold the real decision makers responsible for these crimes rather than scapegoating the individual GI’s”.. (NOTE: 1/25/71 FBI/S2,p7: Flyer re: WSI: “The purpose of this investigation is to preclude the further scapegoating of individual soldiers for what is in fact Official U.S. Military Policy.” <SOURCE>
--2004: National Coordinator for VVAW; and listed on IVAW website under “About Us.” Signed on, with many others, as an “endorser of Veterans Against the Iraq War” at the VAIW website (see Cline for link).
--2004: Veterans organizer /supporter of Kerry

ROTTMANN, Larry (former VVAW/WSI)
--12/1-3/70: Nat’l. Vets Inquiry on US War Crimes in Vietnam, WDC (held by CCI*) “By June of 1967 the entire 900-sq-mile Elephant Bar area had been declared a free fire zone, meaning that anything that moved in it would be shot, burned, or killed..” Do you have evidence of how you know that the official policy is to have 2,000 KIA? “I was told that over the phone.” By who? “By officials from MAVC..I don’t want to name any names.” <TESTIFIED>
* “CCI” (Citizens Commissions of Inquiry)-Rifkin/Ensign--Intent: show American policies lead to war crimes. About CCI per Ensign: <SOURCE>
--1/16/71: FBI File (S2,p19): Listed as contact for WSI.
--1/31/71: FBI (S2,p33): Pamphlet handed out at WSI: “PRG Peace Proposal.”
--1/31/71 & 2/1-2/71: WSI testimony, 25th ID & Public Info Office - Part I, III-IV: As Info. Officer, “..I was to red pencil:.effectiveness,..or mistakes of the ARVN army;..info. on the size, accuracy & range ..of the enemy 122mm rocket; extent of damage & number of U.S. casualties from any enemy attack; ..conditions of U.S. military stockades; anything about the CIA..; Project Phoenix..” (At link, do a name search): <TESTIFIED>
--4/20/71: American Prisoners of War in SE Asia -House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee: “..The most frequent thing that I saw in regard to this kind of treatment was a thing called water torture... Another kind has been called pole torture,.. You are given a Geneva Convention card sometimes that has the rules on it, treat women with respect & so forth, but like I told you, & they told us when you get to the Nam, you just throw the book away..”
(at link, do name search): <TESTIFIED>
--4/23/71: House Ad Hoc Hearing for VVAW: “And the ..people who will be testifying ..will be talking directly to the question of military censorship & the way military news is manipulated.” Do you have a copy of the official instructions..? “..Most of the instructions came thru verbally.. I would be unwilling to name names.. I just want to raise a point of official and de facto military policy in Indochina..” <TESTIFIED>
--6/71: FBI File (S8,p135): Rottmann is VVAW Regional Coordinator for NM/AZ
--11/4/71: FBI File (S9,p38): Rottmann, along with Kerry, is on National Exec. Committee of VVAW.
--11/71: Present at the meeting in Kansas City where assassination was discussed.
--11/26/71: FBI File (S9,p184): On 8/31/71..leaflet “A VVAW Sponsored Offensive to End the War,” was distributed to local KS VVAW chapt. from their nat’l. office.. (signed by Rottmann & others): “The 7 pt. peace plan was proposed in Paris two months ago, the gov’t of this country has failed to respond to it, we as veterans and active duty people must....”
--6/30/04: Supports Kerry. (“Kerry, tested under fire, right choice as leader,” by Rottmann: As President, Kerry “Would never appoint a secretary of state who would lie to the Congress and the American people to justify a war.”...) <SOURCE>

SAUVAGEOT, Andrew
--a career military man who spent nine years in Vietnam.
--had served as Kerry’s interpreter when he urged the Vietnamese government to help search for the remains of American soldiers still missing from the war.
--returned in 1993 as chief representative for General Electric
--11/20/00: "We have to stop preaching to these people," argues Sauvageot. "They fought hard for the basic right to determine their own future at their own pace, and they've won that right."
--8/21/04: Sauvageot, Searcy, Lancaster & Karber, in Vietnam: <SOURCE>
--8/21/04: same group: <SOURCE>
--2004: Living in Hanoi, Vietnam. Calls Pres Bush a draft dodger.
--2004: supporter of Kerry.

SEARCY, Chuck (former VVAW)
--1995: Coordinated series of humanitarian programs from Hanoi since 1995.
--1997: “Bangert was one of three former VVAW members to pay tribute in Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh on his birthday.
Bangert joined Chuck Searcy and Eric Herter May 19 – which was also the 30th anniversary of the founding of the VVAW. <SOURCE>
--8/21/04: Sauvageot, Searcy, Lancaster & Karber, in Vietnam: <SOURCE>
--8/21/04: same group: < SOURCE >
--2004: Living in Hanoi, Vietnam. Calls Pres Bush a draft dodger.
--2004: Supporter of Kerry.

SMITH, Wayne (assoc with VVAW & IVAW thru VETPAC)
--2004: A “Sr. Exec. with a Nat’l. Vets Org.” and listed on Kerry website as President of VETPAC - Veterans Alliance For Security and Democracy” (along with Committee members: David Cline, VVAW/IVAW; and Mike Hoffman IVAW) -- VETPAC endorses John Kerry. (See McPeak re: VIFSD & VETPAC)
--2004: Supports Kerry.

THORNE, David (former VVAW)
--2004: Supports Kerry: Former brother-in-law of Kerry and Editor of “The New Soldier” -- Kerry’s campaign adviser

URGO, Joe (former VVAW - met with enemy in No. Vietnam; now VVAW-AI)
--1/16/71: FBI File (S2,p19): Listed as contact for WSI.
--Jan/Feb 1971: Attended WSI in Detroit. FBI (S2,p33): “Pamphlet handed out at WSI “PRG Peace Proposal.”
--4/71: Organizer of Dewey Canyon III protest.
--11/18/71: FBI File (S.9,p208-209): Urgo along with Al Hubbard present at the Kansas City meeting on 11/12/71. They said that they both had been in contact with No. Vietnamese officials; Urgo in Hanoi and Hubbard in Paris. Proposal to send VVAW delegation to No. Vietnam on unspecified date.
--11/24/71: FBI File (S9,p153-154): Joe Urgo present at 11/13/71 Kansas City meeting. “Advised..that he went to Hanoi in Aug. 1971 & talked with several North Vietnamese reps. Reason for his trip ..ties in with the int’l. action of active duty people to demonstrate against the Vietnam War...made proposals to the communist leaders: 1) Tapes ..sent from U.S. to No.VN to broadcast over Radio Hanoi to get U.S. troops to stop fighting, and 2) to send a VVAW delegation to Hanoi in the near future..to negotiate release of POWs... Urgo advised that while he was in Hanoi, he was taken to training camps & factories of the North Vietnamese army.”
--11/24/71: FBI (S.10,p66): Urgo and 2 others traveled to Hanoi 8/13-21/71.. were denied meeting the POWs. Were given “a tape recording by U.S. POWs held by the PRG.”
--12/29/71: FBI (S1,SubA,p47-53): Multiple protests. VVAW blocked entrance to Statue of Liberty..a small American flag was hung upsidedown...was illuminated thru windows of Liberty’s torch; placed a coffin in front of Lincoln Statue; Urgo was arrested in front of White House and charged with littering after several vets threw what they said were bags of blood on the sidewalk.”
--7/31/73: FBI (S47,p132): Those known to have departed with the caravan to participate in demonstrations in Gainesville, 7/31-8/4/73, are Joseph Urgo, former Nat’l. Coordinator of VVAW/WSO
--AFTER 9/11: 9/22/01: A communist tract being handed out by Joe Urgo in New York: "They want us to unite with them & wave their flag. No. These imperialists who have perpetrated countless crimes and rained havoc on the people of the world through their relentless global exploitation & their military actions have created a situation where millions of people all around the world hate the gov’t. of the United States."
--2003: Press Release (VVAWAI website) --“Veterans Call to Conscience Speakers Bureau -- Avail. for Nat’l. & Int’l. Press”:
Urgo’s posted resume: “Former Nat’l. officer of the VVAW. Organizer for the WSI into U.S. war crimes in Vietnam. Organizer, Dewey Canyon III - Aug. 1971. The first Vietnam Veteran to travel to Hanoi on a peace mission. Long time revolutionary activist. Member, VVAW Anti-Imperialist (VVAWAI), and Activist for Not In Our Name Project (NION)”
--6/11/04: In a newsletter on the internet, an article by Urgo: "Support Our Troops? No.” “They get sent to a foreign country under the lie of ‘freedom and democracy’ ...They are never told it is for treasure and empire,...why is there this constant necessity to keep calling them heroes? For what? Carrying out the murderous policies of the gov’t.?...The draft is coming, vampires will be grabbing our children by the millions for all the wars that are coming -- Iran, Korea, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, China ad infinitum....”
--8/30/04: Rep of “Revolutionary Communist Party” [Maoist group] (indicated as “affiliate” on their website), & activist for “Not In Our Name” (NION) & was involved in the protests at the Republican Convention. (“NION believes..that Republicans are more of a threat than Al Qaeda or the Baathists”: <SOURCE> )
--8/30/04: Urgo involvement in GOP convention disruptions: <SOURCE>
--2004: NOTE: The VVAW posts on its website --“Beware of VVAW-AI” re communist affiliations: <SOURCE>
--2004: Supports Kerry by protesting republicans and the Iraq War.

VALLELY, Thomas (former VVAW - Kerry’s “dog hunter”)
--4/22/71: with Kerry at Senate Hearing
--9/18/72: the evening before the primary election during his 2nd attempt for Congress, John Kerry's brother Cameron and Vietnam vet Thomas Vallely are arrested in Lowell, MA in the basement of a bldg. that houses both Kerry's campaign headquarters & those of opposing candidate Tony DiFruscia. Cameron Kerry & Vallely are charged with breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny
--2004: Director of the Vietnam program at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
--2004: Supports Kerry. Active in Kerry campaign

VAZQUEZ, Jaime (former VVAW; represents Veterans For Peace -- see Cline)
---2003: Extract, Veterans For Peace Resolutions: “....That Veterans For Peace endorse and sponsor the Bring Them Home Now campaign and join in demanding the repatriation of all troops in Iraq to their home bases.... Stmt. of Purpose: restrain our gov’t. from intervening, overtly or covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations, etc....” <SOURCE>
--2/16/03: Huge protest in NY. Article by David Cline: “we ...arrived just in time to see and hear Jaime Vazquez, who spoke representing Veterans For Peace. In his 90 second spot, Jaime acknowledged the veteran & family organizations involved in our efforts to stop the war and spoke about patriotism and why we oppose a war with Iraq. (Intervention Mag./Note that Jan Barry is a Contributing Editor -- <SOURCE>
--3/18/03: Listed as a “contact,” along with David Cline (VVAW) on Press Release “Veterans Against Iraq War,” re: Ellsberg (IVAW) & Muller (VVAW) leading a ‘teach-in’. <SOURCE>
--2004: Listed on IVAW website under “About Us”: “Jaime has worked as a social worker, drug abuse counselor, & youth director. He was elected three times to the Jersey City Municipal Council and as the UN representative for the Int’l. Steering Committee of Nuclear Free Zone Local Authorities. Jaime is currently the Dir. of the Office of Veterans Affairs and is Deputy Mayor for Int’l. Affairs for the City of Jersey City, NJ.”
--2004: Signed on, with many others, as an “endorser of Veterans Against the Iraq War” at the VAIW website (see Cline for link).
--2004: Supports Kerry by endorsing VAIW and assoc. with VVAW.

ZASTROW, Pete (a founder: VVAW/WSO in 1971 along with Romo & Davis -- now in VVAW)
--12/74: FBI Rpt. 12/15/75 (S75,p171-172): “VVAW/WSO leaders voted at the Nat’l. Steering Committee meeting to align with the RU, which organization follows a strict Maoist line designed to bring about violent revolution in the U.S.”
--10/29/75: FBI File (S75,p52,86): “Zastrow elected 7/8/75 to 1-yr. term as Nat’l. Coordinator.” (p.96): “During 6/6/75 meeting in Buffalo, NY, Zastrow managed to alienate most of those in attendance with his pro-Revolutionary Union rhetoric and arguments concerning possible alliance of the VVAW/WSO and the RU.”
--1/6/76: FBI (S75,p.197): Per “The Veteran,” Dec/Jan issue, the name of the organization has again been changed, this time back to the original VVAW.
--2004: A VVAW “National Coordinator”
--Supports Kerry by way of belonging to VVAW.
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I am including the below communist endorsement because I think their reason for supporting Kerry is important to see:

Communist Party USA
--10/2/03: The Communist Party USA decided it would not run a candidate for president in 2004, choosing instead to form a "united front" to stop the re-election of President Bush: <SOURCE>
--8/25/04: “Just Being Anti-Bush is not enough to win,” by Sam Webb, National Chair, CPUSA: “...a victory by Kerry and the broad democratic movement that supports him would be a body blow to the extreme right..... It also would create a much more favorable political terrain on which the people's movement could struggle for its agenda, beginning with an end to the occupation of Iraq.”

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**END** of PART 1 & 2 of Kerry player's list.

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This list is all I had time to compile - these are names that are in the news or that came up in webs of connections of Kerry supporters, people and organizations... No consideration was made to finding "major" players. This is just a general quick look at who would like Kerry to be president.

(Also, in the course of this research, I have discovered that it is more important than I thought to know what our congressman are doing, and for people to know who they are having "peace marches" with)

(For sections on KERRY, see PARTS 3-6 below)

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[Jarhead]

This is an outstanding piece of research! Thank god for the new media. Standby, liberal elite MSM (old media), as we are watching every word that you say and print. We now have the technology and the ability to prove that you are phoney, biased and have a political agenda. Your days are numbered!

Oooorahhhhhh!
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Semper Fi'
Jarhead
USMC 71-74

"I am a bold Internationalist, I will only disperse American troups around the world at the discretion of the United Nations" - John Kerry

$UCK THE CORRUPT UNITED NATIONS - I am a Jarhead and I approve this message

[dmackto]

Wow.. Capital W

Great work Beatrice.

Now to get this some exposure!
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Deborah
The FROZEN CHICKEN Journal

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill

[Beatrice1000]

Just a note: In the last debate, I think, Kerry referred to Gen. McPeak (on the list above) -- however, he did not mention that McPeak is on an Advisory Committee along with David Cline (VVAW) and Mike Hoffman (IVAW), obviously "anti-war, anti-intervention" folks. With these associations, Kerry's use of McPeak as a supporter is not proving to me, anyway, that he is going to wage "a war" of any nature.

[Navy_Navy_Navy]

Absolutely incredible! You are one terrific researcher - thanks so much for putting all of that in one place. What a tangled spider web, hm?
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~ Echo Juliet ~
Altering course to starboard - On Fire, Keep Clear
Navy woman, Navy wife, Navy mother

[CTW]

[gulf1609]

I saw the name Daniel Ellsberg. If you go back and look at the sources you site you will find the name Morton Halperin associated with Daniel Ellsberg. Just an FYI--Morton Halperin now is a senior vice president of a Soros funded group. One of his sons is an ex-Clinton speech writer who also works for the Soros group and his other son, Mark Halperin, is the ABC political director and the same one who wrote the "memo" we heard so much about last week.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15511

[Beatrice1000]

[gulf1609]

Beatrice,

Have you sent this list to any other blogs, or to any news sight? Hannity, Rush, maybe even WSJ, Chicago Sun Times, IBD, Washington Post? I think some of the blogs would have a field day with this. It is so damning when it is compiled all together and you have sourced it so well. Suggestions-Beldar, powerline, captains quarters, indc, crushkerry, tech central station. I think this might spread like wildfire if it got picked up by even one or two groups.

[Beatrice1000]

[gulf1609]

Sent out info and links to as many addresses as I had (around 30). This would be great posted on Freerepublic.com. They would go to town with this info. I have never been able to get a reply regarding a password. If anyone can post over there, send them a link or cut and paste the important parts of the post please.

[SBD]

[Beatrice1000]

** PART 3 of 6 **

A look at some articles, photos, videos, FBI files, & speeches from 1966 to present which hopefully, by his own words & deeds, will provide a glimpse into the character of this man who wishes to be president. (As time has run out for further research, I have only been able to compile what I had already pulled together which definitely leaves large gaps in time -- however, you can go to all the forums here for much more information.)
NOTES:
=Source text is abbrev. & emphasis is mine.
=(T) indicates the “Timeline” at wintersoldier.com TIMELINE
=All sourced declassified FBI Files are at wintersoldier.com: FBI Files
=Numerous articles from the Communist Daily World applauding Kerry & the VVAW are at wintersoldier.com (scroll down for articles): DAILY WORLD
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***KERRY, JOHN FORBES***

--1966: “Kerry Exploits Vets for Hanoi” (3/5/04) by J. Michael Waller: Kerry signed up with the Navy.. “I didn't really want to get involved in the war,” he later would tell the Boston Globe. “When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling, & that's what I thought I was going to do.” ARTICLE

--1968-69: See “Unfit For Command,” and the various Forums here for information on Vietnam activities

--04/69: U.S. Naval Lt John Kerry leaves Vietnam & is soon reassigned as a personal aide & flag lt. to Rear Admiral Walter F. Schlech, Jr. (T)

--10/15/69: Moratorium march on WDC: This was the first documented major antiwar protest that Kerry attended. (7/69: Peter Collier & David Horowitz, then top activists on the pro-Hanoi left, later wrote that militant activists went in July to "meet Cuban & Vietnamese officials in Havana to map out strategies for the war in America, the 'other war' which would ultimately defeat the U.S.") Nat'l Review reported at the time that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was one of the endorsers of the Moratorium. ARTICLE

--11/69: In response to a public call from the Bertrand Russell foundation in NY, Jeremy Rifkin & Tod Ensign launch a new organization called Citizens Commissions of Inquiry (CCI) to publicize American war crimes in Indochina. (T)

--12/69: Kerry requests an early discharge from the Navy in order to run for a MA congressional seat on an antiwar platform. (T)

--01/03/70: Kerry is discharged from active duty. (T)

--02/13/70: “Old Crimson Interview Reveals a More Radical John Kerry” (2/11/04) by Zachary M. Seward: ..A young John Kerry strolled into the offices of The Harvard Crimson on 2/13/70 as an obscure underdog in the Dem. Congressional primary... “I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations,” & that he wants to almost eliminate CIA activity. ARTICLE

--02/70: CCI co-sponsors its first “commissions of inquiry” in Toronto & Annapolis MD, & begins providing accounts of war crimes to the press. During the next few mos., the CCI holds events in Springfield MA, Richmond, NYC, Buffalo, Boston, Mpls, Los Angeles, & Portland Oregon. (T)

--03/70: Kerry drops out of the 4th Dist. congressional race to make way for antiwar activist Father Robert F. Drinan…(T)

--05/07/70: Kerry appears on The Dick Cavett Show for the first time, speaking in opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam. (T)

--05/23/70: Kerry marries Julia Stimson Thorne in NY. (T)

--Late 5/70: John & Julia Kerry travel to Paris on a private trip. Kerry meets with Madam Nguyen Thi Binh, the Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Gov’t. of Vietnam (PRG)--the political wing of the Vietcong-- & with reps of Hanoi who were in Paris for the peace talks. (T) (NOTE: see entry "8/25/71" for Kerry's 2nd Paris trip)

--06/70: Kerry joins VVAW (an org. which incls. the Communist Party, USA, etc).. The VVAW..Exec. Sec’y., Al Hubbard,.. appoints Kerry to the VVAW's Exec. Committee..(T)

--8/70: Al Hubbard asks Tod Ensign & Jeremy Rifkin of the CCI to join with the VVAW,..Jane Fonda, Mark Lane & others to organize nat’l. hearings on war crimes. Lane suggests calling the hearings “Winter Soldier" (T)

--9/7/70: VVAW rally --OPERATION RAW (“Rapid American Withdrawal”). FBI File (S1,p.100): John Kerry listed as speaker at OP RAW on a Flyer, along with Joey Kennedy, Rev. Bevel, Mark Lane, Jane Fonda & Don Sutherland. Related FBI sections, PDF, 20p: FBI File

--09/08/70: OPERATION RAW. FBI Report dated 9/4/70 (S8): The 9/8/70 issue of “The Philadelphia Inquirer,”..quoted one John Kerry as stating,