THE KERRY DOSSIER (post here anything you've uncovered on Kerry)

2/11/04 | FR INVESTIGATIVE TEAM

[Liz]

Kerry-Fonda pic

Actress and activist Jane Fonda attends an anti-Vietnam War rally at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The rally was sponsored by Vietnam veterans. John Kerry can be seen directly in the background. 1970 Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, USALeif Skoogfors (CORBIS)

WASH TIMES 2/11 Rep. Sam Johnson, Texas Republican, who spent nearly seven years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Vietnam, said yesterday the photograph of Mr. Kerry with Miss Fonda will hurt him nevertheless. "I think it symbolizes how two-faced he is, talking about his war reputation, which is questionable on the one hand, and then coming out against our veterans who were fighting over there on the other," Mr. Johnson said. Mr. Johnson recalled that his North Vietnamese captors played recordings of Miss Fonda telling U.S. troops to give up the war. "Seeing this picture of Kerry with her at antiwar demonstrations in the United States just makes me want to throw up."

[Salvation]

According to what someone said on this thread:

What You Don't Know about John Kerry

[kcvl]

John Kerry Says Al Qaeda Not That Bad

February 11, 2004

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by Bob Newman

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In an alarming assessment of the dangers America faces from al Qaeda, Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry, upon being asked in a debate on January 29th if President Bush was overstating the terrorist threat, said, “"I think there has been an exaggeration. They are misleading all Americans in a profound way."


http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/m-n/newman/2004/newman021104.htm

[FairOpinion]

Kerry takes new fire over Vietnam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076457/posts

CNN) -- The publication of an old photo of Jane Fonda and John Kerry at an anti-Vietnam War rally is raising questions about the antiwar activities of the Democratic presidential front-runner.

Kerry, a much decorated Vietnam War veteran, became an antiwar activist after he returned to the United States. (Kerry's biography)

The photograph, taken on Labor Day 1970, shows Fonda at an antiwar rally in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Kerry, who at the time led a group called Vietnam Veterans Against The War, can be seen in background behind her.

Kerry's campaign confirmed that he was at the rally and spoke.

[Azzurri]

Daniel Ortega is a hero to the liberals. They will praise this picture as if it's Bill Clinton shaking hands with JFK as a teenager.

[Spiff]

Kerry, the Sandinistas, and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) "Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies" | 1987 | S. Steven Powell

By the way, it was information from this source that sunk President Clinton's nominee for CIA Director, Anthony Lake. That's why we have George Tenent.

Too bad his connection to IPS isn't enough to sink Kerry. I'm going to look through my resources showing Anthony Lake's involvement with IPS to see if Senator Kerry is mentioned as well.

[adam_az]

Kerry


Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Michael Dukakis and Kerry pay a visit to Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Paul Tsongas on Capitol Hill.
AP Photo




Governor-elect Michael Dukakis and Lieutenant Governor John Kerry celebrate their 1982 election victory.
Globe Staff Photo / Stan Grossfeld


John Kerry points something out to presidential candidate Walter Mondale on November 2, 1984.
Globe Staff Photo / Stan Grossfeld

[Salvation]

John Kerry: Hero of Iran-Contra Investigation author: the sane left

Barf Alert - dim site!

John Kerry: Hero of Iran-Contra Investigation

author: The Sane Left

John Kerry investigates Reagan's genocidal policies in Central America and nails Oliver North.

John Kerry meets with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega in midst of Reagan War

Excerpts of Boston Globe profile on Mass. Senator John Kerry as featured on Democracy Now: Kerry's audacity cost him. Within weeks of taking office in 1985, he was off to Nicaragua, accompanied by reporters on a 36-hour, self-appointed fact-finding mission with another freshman, Democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa. Congressional Democrats had accused the White House of exaggerating the communist threat posed by the Sandinista regime. So the two senators were publicly castigated when -- just days after meeting with Daniel Ortega and other leaders of the regime -- the Sandinistas climbed aboard a plane to Moscow to cement their Soviet ties. Secretary of State George Shultz declared that Kerry and Harkin had been "used" by the Nicaraguans, and he ridiculed them for their naivete in "dealing with the communists." Kerry was called "silly" in the Boston press. ...`In early 1986, people like North were deathly afraid of what Kerry was after," says Tom Blanton, the executive director of the National Security Archive, a research organization in Washington. "There was this pervasive sense of the potential of turning over too many rocks. Worms and insects kept crawling out." You can read the full story from the link below. Also you can go to: http://www.democracynow.org for a full profile of hopefully our next President.

[Salvation]

It appears to be a valid picture.

http://portland.indymedia.org/icon/2004/01/279421.jpg

[Salvation]

Also an Ollie North attack. Apparently no love lost between North and Kerry.

[piasa]

"Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central Ameria" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991...which has some passages implying a close link between Kerry and the Christic Institute, a Cuban intelligence front linked to IPS.

Know anything about this group?

[FairOpinion]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076456/posts

Kerry and Fonda teamed up in Detroit to slander U.S. troops

A lot of good info about the Kerry - Fonda connection.

[piasa]

serving as legal counsel for the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association

Are these the folks who mail out "free" greeting cards and address labels and ask for donations?

[11th_VA]

Buried Here

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, so far in 2004, the commercial banking industry has given more than $7.7 million in contributions from political action committees and individuals to both the Democrats and Republicans. Democrats sucked up about one third of the cash.

John Kerry, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, is one of the worst when it comes to stuffing his campaign pockets with cash from the banking industry. According to the Center for Public Integrity, top contributors to Kerry’s past senate and current presidential campaigns include FleetBoston Financial Corp, which has bankrolled his career to the tune of $182,387, and Citigroup, which has shelled out $111,356

[Fedora]

I forgot about the IPS-Lake thing, but now that you mention it I remember that. And if I recall correctly, Lake's IPS involvement goes way back to the same period when Kerry was protesting against Nixon. There's some pretty detailed info on Lake's activity during that period in Walter Isaacson's biography "Kissinger". I doubt Lake was directly associated with Kerry at that time, but I would guess their paths must've crossed pretty close at certain points, perhaps a degree or two removed. Worth looking into.

[piasa]

I'm beginning to wonder if the droopy nose is an indication of an inbreeding problem in Massachussetts.

[LibWhacker]

I don't know of any prominent patriotic Americans who would consent to meet with that SOB, do you? Very damning photo, imo!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I am way ahead of the commander in chief, and I'm probably way ahead of my colleagues and certainly of much of the country. But I believe this.

Didn't Kerry just say here he is smarter than Bill Clinton!!!!

[Fedora]

> "Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central Ameria" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991...which has some passages implying a close link between Kerry and the Christic Institute, a Cuban intelligence front linked to IPS.
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> Know anything about this group?

Here's a link to a transcript of a speech by their chief counsel Daniel Sheehan:

http://www.conspire.com/sheehan.html

In the course of the speech Sheehan mentions:

"Senator John Kerry of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has interviewed under oath numerous witnesses. Indeed, we have put before them aircraft pilots who have directly testified under oath about traveling down to John Hull's ranch and back, bringing down guns and bringing back cocaine."

Page 152 of the source cited above ("Cocaine Politics") has a section which mentions:

On April 18 [1986], [Oliver] North's personal diary revealed that he was being kept abreast, however inaccurately, of developments both at the Christic Institute (which had not yet filed its suit) and the Foreign Relations Committee: 'Sheehan [the Christic Institute Attorney] investigating La Penca in consort with Sen. Kerry trying to get evidence linking RR [Ronald Reagan] to La Penca." [footnote cites "Kerry Report", i.e. Senate Committe on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations, report, 'Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy', Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, 1989, 158] In the next seven months North's notebooks contain no less than seven separate references to the secret Kerry investigtion. . ." [cites "North diary; Kerry report, 158, 160; cf. 647, 830]

I believe the Christic Institute is also discussed in the footnotes of a 1990s follow-up report addressing the charges Christic levelled against the CIA regarding alleged drug dealing in Iran-Contra--I think I read it on the CIA website or somewhere like that a couple years ago, would need to check, but it's out there. The footnotes mention the intelligence community's concerns about Christic's ties to Nicaraguan/Cuban intelligence, if I recall correctly. Will try to dig up the exact references over the next few days and post them.

[Prime Choice]

OK. Now you changed the original picture you posted to another one. That doesn't mean that it isn't already downloaded to hundreds of hard drives (just like mine) and it won't circulate around the Internet.

Hmmm...message #106 is now removed.

It just gets curioser and curiouser.

And yup, I've got a copy of the original pic. Should be interesting when the fit hits the shan... ; )

[stratman1969]

From the following: http://www.1stcavmedic.com/jane_fonda.htm

Jane Fonda also helped in the organization of a production group called the F.T.A. (F*** The Army). This group helped to set up coffee houses near military bases where they would perform anti-war derogatory-type sketches for the visiting soldiers. The coffee-house sketches were intended to counterpoint the U.S.O. shows, such as Bob Hope and other U.S.O. sponsored performers whose performances increased morale and gave positive support to American soldiers. Some of the F.T.A. coffee house employees would mingle with the soldiers to help them to "relax and unwind", while encouraging the soldiers to desert. Some soldiers alleged that they were promised jobs and money by the F.T.A. if they deserted.

The Vietnam Veterans Against the War Organization received major financial support from Jane Fonda. Jane Fonda's F.T.A. coffee houses helped in recruiting soldiers and veterans for the Vietnam Veterans Against The War Organization. The Vietnam Veterans Against the War Organization membership was approximately 7,000 at it's highest. The Organization's membership number was comparatively low, when you consider that more than 2 1/2 million Americans served during the Vietnam war.

Jane Fonda personally sought out returning American soldiers from Vietnam to solicit them to publicly speak out against American atrocities against Vietnamese women and children during her broadcasts. North Vietnamese officials based in Canada allegedly coordinated her broadcasts.