Most people are aware of the story of how John McCain and several of his fellow captives were tortured for not visiting with Jane Fonda and her future Husband Tom Hayden when they aided the enemy by creating propaganda to be used against the US military. Upon their release, Fonda called the former prisoners liars and hypocrites. Years later she issued a limited apology that focused primarily on her being photographed on the anti-aircraft gun, but she continues to defend her trip to Hanoi in general.
In recent years, information has come out about the leaders of today’s antiwar rallys that Fonda is an enthusiastic participant. Most of the rallys are organized by a few groups, namely the ANSWER Network, UFPJ, Global Exchange and Code Pink. Medea Benjamin, has worked with all four groups and co-founded the last two. Leslie Cagan, from the CPUSA, (Communist Party USA) is a co founder of UFPJ. Leslie Cagan, members of the weathermen and other current anitiwar activists were members of a Pro-Castro group called the Venceremos Brigade. This organization traveled to Cuba starting in 1969 to show solidarity with Castro.
With the publication of the Mitrokhin papers after the fall of the Soviet Union it has been divulged that this group participated in training from the KGB and was considered a valuable source of identity papers that could be used by Russian spies to infiltrate the US. Ironically Castro told the KGB that he was disgusted by the group and considered them a bunch of homosexuals and feminists.
The Cuban officer in charge of organizing this group of young americans and coordinating their training while in Cuba was a member of the DGI, the Cuban version of the KGB.
John McCain, upon his return from Vietnam, identified this Cuban officer in pictures at the CIA as one of the Cuban torturers that was brought in to torture his fellow American soldiers.
It is a strange irony that the groups that are organizing rallies of 100,000 antiwar activists that the media imply represents the voice of common Americans, are run by people that smuggled documents for and received training from the same people that repeatedly tortured John McCain and his fellow prisoners in the Hanoi Hilton. Next time someone complains about a terrorist being forced to wear women’s panties on his head at Abu Gharib, show him this clip of John McCains torturer from the movie, Faith of our Fathers, the John McCain story.
Cagan along with Carl Davidson, Marilyn Katz and other former SDS and CPUSA members held a rally in Chicago in 2002 opposing the upcoming Iraq invasion. That rally was the stage that a young candidate for Senate chose to announce his opposition to the war and solidify his support from the far left. His name was Barak Obama.
