Kerry can't recall being at '71 parley (& folks there don't recall Kerry -

[papau]

Perhaps the FBI raw file contains lies?....

The Boston Globe's Kranish reports that that Kerry says he does not remember if he was at the 1971 meeting of Vietnam Veterans Against the War where a plot to assassinate some pro-war U.S. senators was discussed and it seems other participants not so sure that they recall him being there either, despite an FBI document indicating he was.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/04/01/kerry_cant_recall_being_at_71_parley/

Kerry can't recall being at '71 parley
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff, 4/1/2004

Senator John F. Kerry said through a spokesman this week that he has no recollection of attending a November 1971 meeting of Vietnam Veterans Against the War at which some activists discussed a plot to kill some US senators who backed the war.

"Senator Kerry does not remember attending the Kansas City meeting," Kerry spokesman Michael Meehan said in a statement to the Globe in response to written questions about the matter. "Kerry does not remember any discussions that you referred to," the statement added, referring to the assassination plot.<snip>

The assassination plot was suggested by antiwar activist Scott Camil. Camil and Kerry knew each other well; the two were together during the April 1971 protests on the Mall in Washington. In a telephone interview from his Florida home, Camil confirmed historical reports that he had suggested a vague plot aimed at prowar senators, but he said he has no recollection of seeing Kerry at the meeting.<snip>

Another person at the Kansas City session, Larry Rottmann, also said he does not remember seeing Kerry there. A third key player, Randy Barnes, who headed the Kansas City chapter that hosted the meeting, has been quoted in the media as saying Kerry was there. But in a telephone interview, Barnes said he may have confused that session with an earlier one in St. Louis and now is unsure whether Kerry attended the Kansas City function.<snip>

But another FBI report from the same period adds that an informant at the Kansas City meeting heard a "vastly more militant posture," prompting an FBI official to add this cautionary note: "Some information reports by various informants is at variance and considering extreme importance of developments in this matter and intense interest of other government agencies, it is essential that full details of meeting be ascertained accurately and immediately." The reports indicate that the FBI information about Kerry came not from FBI agents but from informants who fed information to the government. Thus, the reliability of the reports is difficult to verify.<snip>

[BR_Parkway]

1. And the author who had copies of the FBI files stolen

just a few weeks ago. Makes you wonder what was in them that might not match up with what is in the files now.

[sam sarrha]

3. I was thinking that myself... why just certain things were taken

[JI7]

2. considering the times with a paranoid nixon in power

they would make up anything and pay others to try to bring people down.

[atreides1]

4. And Let's Not Forget J.Edgar Hoover

After all he was still the Director of the FBI, and we know how unbiased he was in his thinking.