The Long Shadow of Vietnam: Review of Comrades in Arms: How the Ameri-Cong Won the Vietnam War

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The same way the Ameri-Qaeda is winning the wars in the Middle East - but this time, they are doing it from inside the Administration.

This begs for wide distribution.

The media has always had a love affair with our enemies.
Recall how they told Japan they weren’t setting their depth charges to the correct depth and killed our submariners.

The treason of the “anti-war” rioters was evidence at the time. It bothered me then and still bothers me that the people in authority rolled back on their heels and let the enemy take the battle to our streets.

Fedora - interesting pseudonym for the topic.

“And he reviews Kerry’s role in normalizing relations with Vietnam during later years.”

Sadly, this brings some other facts to mind: John McCain touting his good friendship with Kerry; McCain physically embracing his NVA torturer on the floor of the Senate committee room; McCain treating the POW/MIA families reps like crap in Senate committee hearings; McCain refusing to criticize Obama in 2008.

And something which only fuels my feeling that something happened in the Hilton that placed McCain under CPUSA control: His bill to close all POW files from the public.

If Kerry had carried Ohio in 2004 he would have won the election—someone who actively aided the enemies of the US in a war. He could well be the next Secretary of State if Obama is re-elected (if he can overcome the handicap of being a white male).

After rereading this, I must make one correction: I forgot to include an update that the book is now 1,800 pages. I was reviewing an earlier edition.

I agree, that’s why I posted this. Roger has made a very important contribution, IMO.

I didn’t hear about that one, but it sounds like something they’d do. My profile has an article on the history of the NYT that gives some more examples of stuff like that.

I have noticed that a lot of the fringe characters surrounding Kerry and some of the other more radical candidates from 2004 (esp. the Kucinich campaign) have resurfaced on the outskirts of the present campaign. Seems like they like to hang in the background hoping no one will notice until after the election when they can make the move to “legitimacy.”

I don’t know the whole story there, but what happened with that whole POW/MIA and normalization thing certainly carried a stench that still lingers, I hope someone will uncover what happened there.

I used to have a link to the autobiography of General Giap.

In it he said that the North was beaten during the Tet offensive and was planning to sue for peace. Then Walter Cronkite spoke about how the US could not win that war, and the word of massive anti-war demonstrations changed their minds, and the NVA decided to keep fighting.

The link disappeared several years ago.

World War II, some senator shot his mouth off about how the Japanese set their depth charges too shallow.
Well.. the press eagerly ran the story and it wound up on the wires in Tokyo.

And thanks to the communists, $100 a month is considered high wages in Vietnam while their sons sell themselves to the male homosexuals from Europe and the US.

There is a lesson there about what happens when anti-American communists gain political power in our country through elections, control of the media, and control of education. It would be a disaster if this happened again in modern times with a similar group of anti-American communists gaining power while we face an a much greater danger than the Vietnamese communists of the 1960s.

Fedora is one of the top internal security historians/specialists in the business. I’ve followed his/her writings for years and found them to be much more in-depth than any others in the field, and I’ve been in the field as an operative/researcher/journalist for over 40 years.

Roger Canfield spent over 20 years doing his research which is extremely extensive in scope and depth. He writes about things that the liberal/leftist historians/journalists left out of their own books, either through a lack of knowledge of the topic, ideological protective bias, or sheer incompetence.

Ameri-Cong does nationwide publicity and usage. Hopefully someone reading it will supply a few of the missing details about John Kerry’s illegal contacts with the Communists n Paris, more on what the No. Vietnamese taught the SDS/Venceremos Brigade marxists in Cuba, and how much KGB money flowed into the so-called “anti-Vietnam” organizations (i.e. Mobes/PCPJ/NPAC) under the table.

Roger deserves the thanks of every patriotic American for his decades long efforts to present us with the truth about the “peace movement”, which, in reality, was not about them being “doves for peace”, but actually being “hawks for the other side”.

Thank you, Max, coming from you that is a very weighty review. And I can only echo your thanks to Roger for the hard work he has put into his research, and continues to put in. He's added 400 pages since I first read the book! Not to mention his work on Chicom and terrorist activity and his other projects. I and a team of researchers could probably spend the next 40 years just following up on what he's dug up.

And the specific items you mention are certainly worthy of follow-up. We found a bit of that under-the-table money you mention in the FBI files on VVAW--I made a point to itemize some of that when I indexed one of their summary reports which is linked on my profile page but I see the link is now expired (this is the item titled "8/25/1972 FBI Information Digest Special Report on VVAW")--but there were a lot of leads there indicating broader funding networks. Cross-referencing that with other FBI files might turn up a lot. Since the link's not currently up, I'll take the liberty of reposting a few quotes from what I had there below. Also see my article on Corliss Lamont's donations to the VVAW, mentioned in the same FBI file.

(By the way, what follows below is my commentary on the names in the FBI file, not direct quotes from the file, which I transcribed separately. From my commentary, then:)

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Groups funding VVAW’s Winter Soldier Investigation:

United States Servicemen’s Fund (USSF): GI-oriented antiwar group formed in 1970 to recruit active servicemen to the antiwar movement and provide financial and legal support to soldiers opposing the war. USSF recruited GIs through a network of coffeehouses located near military bases and through antiwar newspapers distributed at military bases. Led by Paul Lauter, who was active in the American Friends Service Committee, Students for a Democratic Society, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and Resist, Inc. Sponsors and supporters of USSF included CP-linked Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Black Panther-endorsed Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, antiwar professor Noam Chomsky, CP-linked feminist Betty Friedan, Village Voice writer Nat Hentoff, and several unions. USSF supported the F.T.A. troupe associated with Jane Fonda.

Groups funding USSF:

Fund for Tomorrow, Inc.: Left-wing charity founded as a spinoff of the Rubin Foundation, a major financier of CP activity. The Rubin Foundation was founded by Faberge millionaire Samuel Rubin, a CP member and friend of Armand Hammer, who was the Soviets’ chief financial agent in the United States. It became the chief financier of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a think tank linked to Soviet and Cuban agents used to coordinate various left-wing groups in the US and abroad. Rubin’s daughter Cora Rubin Weiss (see entry) and her husband Peter Weiss (see entry), a member of the CP-connected National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and a leader of IPS as well as a lawyer for the VVAW, administered the Fund for Tomorrow.

Stern Family Fund aka Stern Fund: Left-wing charity founded to distribute the fortune of the heirs of Sears, Roebuck & Company chairman Julius Rosenwald, a financier of left-wing causes. Rosenwald’s own fortune was initially administered through the Julius Rosenwald Fund, whose second director, Alfred K. Stern, fled to Czechoslovakia in 1958 after being indicted on three counts of spying for the Soviet Union. Later a separate Stern Fund was established in 1936 by Julius’ daughter Edith Rosenwald Stern (wife of Alfred’s brother Edgar Bloom Stern, a New Orleans businessman), and in turn her son Philip Maurice Stern later endowed the Stern Family Fund upon his death in 1992. Under executive director David Romeyn Hunter, the Stern Fund provided much of the initial endowment for the Institute for Policy Studies, a Marxist think tank linked to Soviet and Cuban agents.

Financial contributors to USSF:

Peter Weiss (1925-): Husband of Cora Rubin Weiss (see entry). Senior partner in law firm of Weiss, Dawid, Fross, Zelnick & Lehrman and member of CP-linked National Lawyers Guild (see entry). Chairman of board of Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a Marxist think tank linked to Soviet and Cuban agents. Participated in Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation’s International War Crimes Tribunal (see entry for “World Assembly for Peace”), which inspired the VVAW’s Winter Soldier Investigation (WSI). Served on panel at WSI. Acted as lawyer for VVAW.

Cora Rubin Weiss (date of birth unknown): Daughter of CP member and financier Samuel Rubin and president of Samuel Rubin Foundation. Wife of Peter Weiss (see entry), chairman of board of Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a Marxist think tank linked to Soviet and Cuban agents. Leader of CP front women’s antiwar group Women Strike for Peace (WSP). Codirector of Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam (COLIFAM), which acted as a liaison between North Vietnam and families of POWs, offering families contact with POWs in exchange for pro-Communist statements. Travelled to Paris and Hanoi to meet Communist leaders.

Max Palevsky (1924-): Venture capitalist and Democratic Party fundraiser who financed antiwar movement. Trained in math and philosophy before working in computers at Bendix and Packard-Bell and founding innovative computer company Scientific Data Systems of California in 1961. Sold Scientific Data Systems to Xerox Corporation in 1969 for $100 million, joined board of Xerox, and funded computer company Intel. In 1967 became president of Business Executives Move for Peace in Vietnam (BEM, changed in 1975 to Business Executives Move for New National Priorities), antiwar businessmen’s group cofounded by his associate Harold Willens, financial associate of longtime CP front financier Robert Maynard Hutchins and founder of the Businessmen’s Educational Fund (which became the Center for Defense Information, financed by General Motors Heir Stewart Rawlings Mott through the Fund for Peace and aligned with the Soviet front the World Peace Council). Joined Democratic Advisory Committee in 1968, supported Robert Kennedy’s Presidential campaign in 1968, organized George McGovern's Presidential campaign in 1972, and ran Tom Bradley's campaign for Mayor of Los Angeles in 1973, hiring Gray Davis as Bradley’s fundraiser. Considered part of a “Malibu Mafia” that rivalled MCA chairman Lew Wasserman for domination of the left wing of the Democratic Party in Southern California in the early 1970s; the Malibu Mafia also included Willens, Stanley Sheinbaum (son-in-law of movie mogul Harry Warner, also associated with Hutchins and with Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg), Warner Brothers chairman Ted Ashley, TV producer Norman Lear, clothing manufacturer Miles Rubin, Tool Research and Engineering Corporation executive Leopold Wyler, and celebrities Warren Beatty, Neil Diamond, Paul Newman, and Robert Redford. Joined board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Constitutional Rights Foundation. Financed the Institute for Policy Studies; the marijuana legalization group National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML, linked to lawyers for leading drug dealers); and the United States Servicemen’s Fund (USSF), which funded the VVAW’s Winter Soldier Investigation.

Elizabeth Williams: Unable to identify this individual from information in FBI document.

Paul Williams: Unable to identify this individual from information in FBI document.

Anne Peretz aka Anne Labouisse Farnsworth Peretz (1938-): Wealthy heiress who funded left-wing causes. Daughter of State Department and UNICEF official of H.R. Labouisse and Singer family heiress Elizabeth Scriven Clark. Wife of Martin Peretz, a cofounder of the SANE-linked activist group Massachusetts Political Action for Peace (Mass PAX), who worked with the antiwar magazine Ramparts and the Vietnam Moratorium Committee (VMC--see entry for “John Forbes Kerry”) and VVAW during the Vietnam War and became editor-in-chief of the CP-infiltrated magazine The New Republic in 1974. Funded New Republic and Students for a Democratic Society during the Vietnam War. Later Martin and Anne became business partners of Sam Brown, a former leader of the VMC.

Financial contributors to Operation Dewey Canyon III:

Larry Canada (date of birth unknown): Rich hippy recruited by Rennie Davis from an Indiana commune to fund Mayday activities. Married Lilly pharmaceutical family heiress Kathy Noyes. Questioned by authorities along with Noyes in connection with 3/1/1971 bombing of US Capitol. Later introduced Davis to Divine Light Mission cult of Guru Maharaj Ji. Contributed $75,000 to Mayday and communicated Mayday plans to Chinese officials via visit to Chinese embassy in Ottawa, Canada.

Edgar Miles Bronfman aka Edgar M. Bronfman, Sr. (misspelled “Edgar Branfman” in FBI file) (1929-): Seagram Company executive. Son of Samuel Bronfman, a descendant of Jewish refugees from Czarist Russia who started a Canadian whisking distilling business that exported to Prohibition America’s “Big Seven” organized crime syndicate, linked to Meyer Lansky and Joseph Kennedy. Headed Seagram’s American subsidiary after 1957 and assumed presidency of parent company after his father’s death in 1971. Also began acquiring shares in MGM in 1966 and briefly chaired the company in 1969 before being outbid and selling controlling share to Kirk Kerkorian, a millionaire who invested in Las Vegas ventures linked to Morris “Moe” Dalitz, a member of a Detroit-based syndicate called the Purple Gang which had distributed liquor for Samuel Bronfman in the US during Prohibition. Hosted VVAW Dewey Canyon III fundraiser in New York organized by former Robert Kennedy speechwriter Adam Walinsky for John Kerry.

Philip J. Levin (?-1971): New Jersey real estate investor who held controlling interest in approximately 50 companies. Presided over Madison Square Garden Corporation, owned shares in New York Knicks and other sports teams, and purchased racetracks from daughter of Chicago racetrack owner Ben Lindheimer, who had been represented by mob lawyer Sidney Korshak. Sat on board of Gulf & Western, which in 1966 had bought Paramount Pictures, whose executive Robert Evans was linked to Korshak. Also tried to acquire MGM, and after failing to persuade Edgar Bronfman to sell his shares in MGM, sold 420,000 shares to Bronfman in 1967. Contributed heavily to political candidates from both parties, including John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy, and served as New Jersey delegate to the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Donated to VVAW’s Dewey Canyon III at New York fundraiser hosted by Bronfman and organized by former Robert Kennedy speechwriter Adam Walinsky for John Kerry.

Abraham Feinberg (1908-1998): New York banker, Israeli lobbyist, and Democratic Party fundraiser. Funded and lobbied Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations. Held major shares in and chaired American Bank & Trust Company (ABT, previously called American Trust Company), a bank which had been taken over in 1963 by the Israeli-controlled Swiss Israel Trade Bank of Geneva (SITB) before being sold in the late 1960s to Chilean millionaire Jose Klein. As ABT Chairman became involved in fourth-largest bank failure in US history up to that time when ABT was looted by David Graiver, an Argentine businessman who paradoxically both financed right-wing dictator Juan Peron and laundered kidnapping profits from the Montoneros (Movimiento Peronista Montonero), a left-wing terrorist offshoot of the Peronist movement that initially undermined the exiled Peron’s opposition with support from Communist Cuba before later turning against Peron. Feinberg donated to VVAW’s Dewey Canyon III at New York fundraiser hosted by Edgar Bronfman and organized by former Robert Kennedy speechwriter Adam Walinsky for John Kerry.