When Jane Fonda traded in her Ho Chi Minh sandals and Viet Cong
pajamas for a pair of tights and a leotard, most Americans quickly
forgot how the illustrious star of stage and screen had only a few
years earlier been one of communist Vietnam's most loyal and fiery
supporters. Fonda's involvement with the Vietnam War began in 1967,
after several visits with French Communists and underground
revolutionaries in this country convinced her America was the *******
nation of the world.

Using her wealth and influence, she managed to garner support from
American college campuses, advocating communism and encouraging
rebellion and anarchy against the U.S. government. In a speech to Duke
University students in 1970, Fonda told the gathering, "If you
understood what Communism was, you would hope and pray on your knees
that we would someday become Communist."

Not content with spreading her poison within the home ranks, Fonda
began soliciting returned Vietnam veterans to speak publicly about
alleged atrocities committed by American soldiers against Vietnamese
women and children. The broadcasts were coordinated with North
Vietnamese officials in Canada.

A series of "Coffee Houses" established outside U.S. military bases
was another scheme Fonda concocted to counter the positive effect
patriotic entertainers such as Bob Hope, Martha Raye, and according to
Fonda "their ilk" were having on the morale of U.S. forces. There,
special employees would attract off-duty servicemen, get them relaxed,
and then urge them to desert. According to some of those men
approached, they were also promised jobs and money if they deserted.

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, a Vietnam veteran who had been
shot in the spine. VVAW, at its peak membership, mustered about 7,000,
some of whom had been indoctrinated in the "Coffee Houses." That
organization was later led by Vietnam vet John Kerry, now a U.S.
senator and former co-chairman of the Senate Select Committee on
POW/MIA Affairs.

In 1972, Fonda took her pro-communist radicalism to North Vietnam. She
visited that country's Russian built anti-aircraft emplacements and
cheered the spirits of its communist gunners by wearing a gunners
steel helmet and peeping through the gun sight, "looking for one of
those blue eyed murderers."

At a time when 50,000 U.S. servicemen had already died on the
battlefields of Vietnam, Fonda sided with the communists, making radio
broadcasts from Hanoi designed to break the morale of U.S. fighting
forces while encouraging the North Vietnamese to fight harder and kill
more Americans. Fonda's Hanoi radio broadcasts and propaganda films
were especially painful and damaging to American servicemen held as
prisoners of war by the Hanoi Reds. Communist interrogators used the
Fonda recordings, along with starvation and torture in attempting to
brainwash American POWs into becoming turncoats.

Upon returning to the United States, Fonda told the world press that
U.S. prisoners of war were being well treated and not tortured. Her
outrageous claims were later exposed when American POWs were finally
freed and told of years of agonizing tortures and inhuman treatment.
Fonda responded, not with an apology, but with an accusation calling
our returned POWs "liars and hypocrites." Fonda's actions stirred up a
firestorm in America, prompting nationwide demands that she be tried
for treason.

David Hoffman, a former POW who was shot down over North Vietnam in
1971, said that he had been tortured because of Fonda's visit to
Hanoi. "The torture resulted in a permanent injury that plagues me to
this day," says Hoffman, who suffers a disfigured arm inflicted by
brutal communist guards at the POW camp known as the "Zoo."

"When Jane Fonda turned up, she asked that some of us come out and
talk with her," he recalled bitterly. "No one wanted to. The guards
got very upset, because they sensed the propaganda value of a famous
American war protestor proving how well they were treating us.

"A couple of guards came to my cell and ordered me out. I resisted,
and they got violently angry. My arm had been broken when I was shot
down, and the Vietnamese broke it a second time. It had not healed
well, and they knew it caused me great pain. "They twisted it.
Excruciating pain ripped through my body.

"Still I resisted and they got more violent, hitting me and shouting,
'You must go!' I knew there was a limit to which I could push them
before they might actually kill me.

"I was dragged out to see Fonda. I decided to play the role. I knew if
I didn't, not only would I suffer - but the other guys would be
tortured or beaten or worse. "When I saw Fonda and heard her antiwar
rhetoric, I was almost sick to my stomach. She called us criminals and
murderers.

"When I had to talk to the camera, I used every phony cliche I could.
My arm hung limply at my side, and every move caused me pain which
showed in my face. \

"When it was over, Fonda unbelievably did not see through the ruse -
or she didn't want to. I was taken away politely - then shoved back
into my cell.

"I detested Jane Fonda then and I detest her now - but I would fight
to the death to protect her right to say what she thinks.

"What she did was a slap in the face to every American. It was wrong,
ill-advised and stupid. But it was her right. Unfortunately, it was
not my right to refuse to be seen with her.

"There is no way I will ever forget what she did to me. I have the
reminder here - in an arm that can never be normal again.

In late 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." That "we" includes Fonda of
course.

Another infamous deed of Fonda is the naming of her son, Troy. Fonda
returned to Vietnam shortly after the war ended in 1975, with her
small son, 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.

But the ceremony, 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.

Immediately after the christening ceremony, the baby developed a
serious case of bronchitis, according to reports. The Vietnamese and
Fonda panicked and called for a Russian doctor. The child was treated
and Fonda and her child returned to the United States.

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."

Years later, Fonda was invited by NASA as V.I.P. to witness the first
space shuttle launching. Apparently, one source said, NASA and its
officials felt little or no threat from Fonda's taste for Red
Government.

In late 1987, when it became known that Fonda planned to film her new
movie "Stanley & Iris," in Waterbury, Conn., there was a huge backlash
from local veterans. Veterans held rallies, promising violent
demonstrations if the filming began. Many bumper stickers reading "I'M
NOT FONDA HANOI JANE," begin appearing throughout the community. On
June 18, 1988, Fonda flew to Waterbury in an attempt to pacify the
veterans. She met with them for four hours. Fonda later recalled "I
told them my story - why I was antiwar and why I had gone to Vietnam."

A few weeks later Fonda appeared on TV with Barbara Walters and
apologized saying: "I'm very sorry for some of what I did...I'd like
to say something not just to the veterans in Waterbury but to the men
in Vietnam who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of the
things I said or did. I feel I owe them an apology...There were times
when I was thoughtless and careless...I'm very sorry that I hurt
them."

The vets did not buy it.

They said Fonda, an award winning actress, was faking an apology
because veterans were protesting against her all over the country. As
a result of the protest, the vet said, her movies were doing badly and
she had been removed from Nabisco Shredded Wheat boxes.

The vets said "no apology will ever erase the pictures of Jane Fonda
in giggly bliss, laughing and clapping her hands, as she mounted the
gunner's seat of a communist Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun." Bui Tin, a
former high ranking Vietnam Communist Party official and North
Vietnamese Army colonel who served on the North Vietnamese Army
general staff during the war, became disillusioned with communism
after the war and went into exile in Paris and the United States. He
testified in 1991 before the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA
Affairs about his knowledge of U.S. prisoners of war.

Bui Tin said in a recent interview by Minnesota human rights activist
Stephen Young, that Fonda's highly published support of the North
Vietnamese gave them "confidence" to continue to fight and "hold on in
the face of the battlefield reverses."

When Fonda appeared at a press conference in Hanoi wearing a red
Vietnamese dress and declared she was "ashamed of American actions" in
the war and that she would struggle along with the communists, "we
were elated," Bui Tin said.

He said the American antiwar movement was "essential" to the North
Vietnamese strategy for victory. "I'd say a lot of American boys lost
their lives because of the encouragement she gave the North
Vietnamese," said a former rifle platoon leader from Texas.

In December of 1991, Hanoi Jane, the once fiery communist activist,
who advocated violent revolution to overthrow America's democracy and
the free enterprise system, married billionaire Ted Turner, a leading
American capitalist and chairman of the Atlanta based Turner
Broadcasting System Inc., the parent company of Cable News Network.

Today, the communist architects of Ho Chi Minh's brutal war against
democracy, freedom and capitalism, which resulted in the deaths of
over 3 million North and South Vietnamese, and 58,000 American
servicemen, are now "best friends" with Western bankers and capitalist
businessmen. They are even traveling the world appealing to foreign
investors to bring more big business and money back to Vietnam, so
like Hanoi Jane, they too can be rich.

A veteran summed it up: "It is a shame that some of those who fought
so well for America can be treated as 'forgotten ghosts' and left to
rot as POWs in Hanoi's prisons, while those like Fonda, who so
passionately supported our enemy and condemned our system of
government, are now overwhelmingly blessed by its wealth."

Capt. American