WINTERSOLDIER.COM: Complete VVAW FBI files (21K pages) online!

Winter Soldier ^ | 5/20/2004 | diotima

[diotima]

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May 20, 2004 -- Now available from WinterSoldier.com -- the entire 21,477 page collection of FBI files detailing the activities of Vietnam Veterans Against the War during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Wade right into our new Complete VVAW FBI Files section for days, nay, weeks of investigative enjoyment.

A quick look through a few files turned up an interesting proclamation that the VVAW issued in February of 1971:

"We, as veterans of the war in Vietnam, give notice that if Laos is attacked, we will respond at once. We call for mass civil disobedience to take place all over this country. We call for industry to shut down. We call upon the students to close the schools. We call upon our brothers who are still in uniform to close the military bases throughout America and the world. We call on the anti-war movement to shut down the major cities of America.... If this be a threat, let us make the most of it... We have been trained to fight. If need be we will use the knowledge we have gained against those who are seeking to extend this war." -- 100-HQ-448092, Section 02, page 66.

Such threats of sedition and violence seem a bit difficult to square with Kerry campaign spokesman Michael Meehan's recent description of the VVAW as "thoughtful" and "moderate," but no doubt there's a reasonable explanation. Incidentally, one of North Vietnam's greatest fears was that U.S. forces would move enough ground forces into Laos to cut off the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The VVAW, so it appears, felt exactly the same way.

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May 19, 2004 -- Vietnam Veterans for the Truth has made announcement forms available for their Kerry Lied Rally in Washington on September 12. They plan to bring 100,000 veterans and their supporters to the nation's capital to "tell the truth about Vietnam veterans, and to counter the lies John Kerry told about them." The KLR leadership is looking for local and regional coordinators, so consider dropping them a line.

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May 18, 2004 -- We have added a 1971 article from the Philadelphia Inquirer titled Two Veterans: Study in Contrasts to our News Articles section. The photocopy is old and smudged, but you will want to read it. Trust us.

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[Fedora]

Ping :)

[diotima]

21,477 to be exact.......

[Darksheare]

Now that is horrible to contemplate wading through.
I don't think I'd get through even 1,000 of them if given one week, let alone several.

[Mo1]

Yep .. time to put the reading glasses on .. I have a feeling there is LOADS of information in those files

[Darksheare]

Wonder how many megabytes of info that would all be if converted into a text file..

[Interesting Times]

Mmm... donuts.

[SeraphimApprentice]

FYI {link:Enc 3402 - 2.15 MB} is Not found and
{link:Enc 4229 - 0.77 MB} is not found. Is there
a section 12?

[Interesting Times]

Care to guess how much coverage this will get in the "lamestream" Leftist media?

Wanna bet?

[rwfromkansas]

Wow.

[rwfromkansas]

Did they release this or did you get it secretly?

Either way, way to go.

[rwfromkansas]

How long did it take to get all this uploaded to PDF....21,000 pages...yikes.

Hope you are getting paid for it...

[Interesting Times]

FYI {link:Enc 3402 - 2.15 MB} is Not found and {link:Enc 4229 - 0.77 MB} is not found. Is there a section 12?

Thanks. Those two files have "ENC" in the file names instead of "Enc" and that is now fixed.

The ways of the FBI are mysterious. For example, they split the files onto 3 700MB CDs as follows: CD1 - 553MB, CD2 - 205MB, CD3 - 123MB. Would it not have been possible to combine CDs 2 and 3, you ask? Mysterious indeed.

If there's a Section 12, it isn't included. Everything they sent is on the site.

[Interesting Times]

A tip of the beanie to Kristinn and others for mentioning that these CDs were being made available.

[Charles Martel]

Bump for later reference.

[Fedora]

Great work!

[abner]

Excerpt Section 66, page 76 of the pdf: Additionally, it was indicated that "Anti-Imperialist groups" consider the VVAW a potent organization of similar stature in the U.S. In April, 1973, the group changed their name to VVAW/WSO so that non-veterans could become members. Current VVAW/WSO national officers are Marxist-Leninist oriented and strive to educate their membership in Marxist-Leninist doctrine.

Yipes!

[diotima]

We filed for it. It isn't secret, other people have the files. We just wanted as many people and researchers to have access to it so we put up on online.

[rwfromkansas]

Ah....wonderful FOIA.

[LayoutGuru2]

Many of the links between Section 035 and Section 075 appear to be broken. :(

[abner]

PING to LG2's post of broken linkys...