Lip-synching Madame Binh

Thomas Lipscomb's article in the New York Sun on Tuesday covered the recent discovery of Kerry-related materials at the Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University at Lubbock. The items consist of captured Viet Cong documents that show that the North Vietnamese "monitored closely and looked favorably upon the activities of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War during the period Senator Kerry served most actively as the group's spokesman and a member of its executive committee."

I think Kerry's promoting of the Viet Cong position regarding American POW's is very clear in this article from July 23, 1971:

Angry wives of American prisoners of war lashed out Thursday at peace advocate John Kerry, accusing him of using the POW issue as a springboard to political office.
When Kerry, a spokesman for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, attempted to introduce relatives of POWs at a news conference four women in the back of the room shouted, "That's a lie!" and "What office are you going to run for next?"
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At the opening of the news conference, Kerry called on Nixon to publicly set a release date for withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam so that POWs could come home.
He said Nixon earlier refused to set a withdrawal date because of North Vietnam's refusal to guarantee the return of American POWs.
But the latest Viet Cong peace offer which guarantees the release of POWs as American troops are withdrawn is being ignored by Nixon, Kerry charged.

The question is, though, was Kerry parroting the Viet Cong position in response to directions from Hanoi, or is that what he would have been doing anway as one of history's quintessential "useful fools?" The Jawa Report addresses that possibility much better than I ever could:

Let me start off by saying the documents appear real to me. But having said that, do we really learn anything new? I'm just not so sure this is the smoking gun that it is alleged to be. In 1995 I attended a May Day rally in Moscow's Red Square. At that rally I heard the head of the Communist Party USA as he denounced Yankee Imperialism, mourned over the loss of the Soviet Union, and lied about how Soviets once had a greater standard of living than Americans. Did the CPUSA have direct links to the Soviet Union? Of course. Did this guy actually believe the vile garbage spewing from his mouth? As far as I could tell, yes.
The phrase Stalin used for people like this was 'useful idiots'. These were people who thought they were doing what was in the best interests of their own country by betraying that country. It always fascinates me when I hear or read what traitors write. Very rarely does a traitor think of what he is doing as treason. Rather, the common thread among traitors is that they believe that they are smarter than officials in government. They believe that their acts of betrayal are in fact acts of patriotism. So when traitors gave away nuclear secrets to the Soviets at the start of the Cold War, they rationalized it as a higher form of patriotism. If the people in the State Department were only as smart as me they would realize that the only way to guarantee our nation's safety is if the Soviets also have a bomb.