Adding Insult to Injury Jane Fonda will Play Nancy Reagan

Wrap has confirmed, 74-year-old Liberal activist “Hanoi Jane” Fonda has signed on to play the role of beloved Republican First Lady Nancy Reagan in Lee Daniels “The Butler”, based on a Washington Post story first published in the days after Barack Obama was elected president.

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the early 70’s, champion of the Black Panthers  Fonda stated, “”Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.” She called the Black Panthers “our revolutionary vanguard”, and said “we must support them with love, money, propaganda and risk.”

Fonda’s involvement with the Vietnam War began in 1967, after several visits with French Communists andFonda underground revolutionaries in this country convinced her America was the bastard nation of the world.

So many of us remember, and were outraged when Jane Fonda, whose outspoke opposition to the Vietnam War, visited North Vietnam in July 1972. While there, Fonda sang an antiwar song while entertaining our enemy. Seated on an anti-aircraft gun, and dressed in a Vietnamese-made ao-dai pantaloon and blouse, had her picture taken with Viet Cong troops.

Fonda was the major financial support to one of the most damaging pro-Hanoi groups called Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), which was led for a time by Robert Muller, and later led by Vietnam vet John Kerry U.S. senator and former co-chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs.

In January, 1973, Fonda divorced her husband and three days later married pro-communist radical leader Tom Hayden, who had founded the revolutionary Students For Democratic Society in 1962 and was a defendant in the conspiracy trial of the “Chicago Seven.”

In 1975, after North Vietnam violated the 1973 “Peace Agreement” resulting in the takeover of South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, Hayden greeted the news by saying “I see this as a result of something we have been working toward for a long time.”

Fonda returned to Vietnam in Spring 1974 with Tom Hayden, with their small son Troy, to attend a special service being held in her honor. Fonda was still a recognized idol and hero to the Communist regime from her earlier years of sending money, food and moral support to the North Vietnamese.

The ceremony, as it turned out, was not just to recognize and honor Fonda for her love of the Communists. Her newborn son was formally christened and named for the Communist hero Nguyen Van Troi. Troi was a Viet Cong sapper who was executed by the South Vietnamese in 1963 for attempting to assassinate U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

As a result of the communist takeover of South Vietnam, Fonda’s friends in Hanoi turned all of Vietnam into a communist Gulag of slave labor camps with police-state oppression and no freedom of speech, press and worship. Millions of Vietnamese were forced to flee their country and turned into homeless “boat people.”

Over 50,000 U.S. servicemen had already died on the battlefields of Vietnam, and Jane Fonda sided with the communists, making radio broadcasts from Hanoi.

part of Fonda’s Hanoi broadcast:

As I left the United States two weeks ago, Nixon was again telling the American people that he was winding down the war, but in the rubble-strewn streets of Nam Dinh, his words echoed with sinister (words indistinct) of a true killer. And like the young Vietnamese woman I held in my arms clinging to me tightly–and I pressed my cheek against hers–I thought, this is a war against Vietnam perhaps, but the tragedy is America’s.

One thing that I have learned beyond a shadow of a doubt since I’ve been in this country is that Nixon will never be able to break the spirit of these people; he’ll never be able to turn Vietnam, north and south, into a neo-colony of the United States by bombing, by invading, by attacking in any way. One has only to go into the countryside and listen to the peasants describe the lives they led before the revolution to understand why every bomb that is dropped only strengthens their determination to resist.

I’ve spoken to many peasants who talked about the days when their parents had to sell themselves to landlords as virtually slaves, when there were very few schools and much illiteracy, inadequate medical care, when they were not masters of their own lives.

But now, despite the bombs, despite the crimes being created–being committed against them by Richard Nixon, these people own their own land, build their own schools–the children learning, literacy–illiteracy is being wiped out, there is no more prostitution as there was during the time when this was a French colony. In other words, the people have taken power into their own hands, and they are controlling their own lives.

One of the strongest charges lodged against Ms. Fonda has been that she was acting as a North Vietnamese agent when she took these actions, and therefore was guilty of treason. If that was the case, then she would presumably have been acting under instructions from a North Vietnamese official, probably a North Vietnamese intelligence officer. The next logical question, then, is whether Ms. Fonda had contacts with North Vietnamese intelligence?

    Since intelligence officers of all countries operate “under cover,” not revealing their true affiliation, answering this kind of question is usually extremely difficult. In this case, however, it turns out that the Vietnamese have answered the question for us. They have not only revealed that Ms. Fonda was in contact with a North Vietnamese intelligence officer in 1972; they have also told us the officer’s name, his operational alias, the cover he was using, as well as his operational instructions and what his goals were in targeting American citizens.

A 2005 article published in Thanh Nien, the official newspaper of the Vietnamese Communist Party’s Ho Chi Minh Youth Group, describes an interview with a retired Vietnamese official named Ho Nam, who in 1972 was a consular officer assigned to the North Vietnamese diplomatic mission in Paris. Ho Nam describes how he met with Fonda when she came to the mission to request a travel visa to North Vietnam. He and another consular officer taught Ms. Fonda a North Vietnamese army fighting song that she wanted to learn for to use while in Hanoi. He quotes her as saying, “I want to sing it as a gift to your soldiers.” Ho Nam also recalls that when Ms. Fonda left Hanoi after completing her visit, she called him from Bangkok, and asked him to meet her at Paris’s Orly International Airport when she returned to France, which he did.

Who was this Ho Nam?

“Ho Nam” was actually a covert Public Security  intelligence officer working for DepartmentHo A13 (North Vietnam’s Foreign  Intelligence Directorate). His true name was Hoang Gia Huy, and he had   been especially selected to work under diplomatic cover in Paris, with specific instructions to target and  recruit American citizens. The name of Ho  Nam, which he used on his passport and to conduct all his operations in  Paris, was a brazen operational alias. The family name “Ho” was selected to honor North Vietnam’s  leader, Ho Chi Minh, and the given name “Nam” was selected because it is  the last half of the name of his country, Viet Nam.

No one is saying that Jane  Fonda was a witting, recruited agent of North Vietnamese intelligence. However, as an extremely  well-known personality, with a wide circle of social and political  contacts in Paris, including many Americans, she could easily have  served, probably unwittingly, as an “access agent” or “social broker”— in other words, as a vehicle of introduction to other individuals who did have access to the kind of  information Ho Nam had been tasked to seek out.

The point is that she knowingly placed herself in a position in which a  hostile intelligence service could exploit her fame and her contacts  for both covert intelligence collection and covert propaganda  operations, and that, according to the North Vietnamese themselves, one  of her close contacts was a covert intelligence officer  whose entire purpose in 1972 was to exploit people just like her. To  imagine that he would not at least try to manipulate and exploit her is  naïve in the extreme.

Years Later, Fonda did eventually apologize for her actions. Whether it was sincere or not only she knows.

I believe everyone deserves forgiveness………….but I can never forget.

As I watched our soldiers return from Nam, I was reminded of Fonda and others like her while witnessing their ignorance as they spit on our soldiers, calling them murderers and then shunned them.

Our soldiers never received a heros welcome, not even so much as a thank you.

To have Jane Fonda portray Nancy Reagan is more than a SLAP-in-the face to all soldiers, Veterans and Patriots, It’s a disgrace.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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