President Clinton then appointed VFW Commander-in-Chief, Allen "Gunner" Kent of the VFW to a senior position in the Veterans Administration (VA) . After working on the transition team of former Secretary Ron Brown at the Commerce Department, Ms Francis Zwenig was appointed as Vice-president of the US Vietnam Trade Council. Shortly thereafter, the Council took control of the Mekong Digest, formerly the Vietnam Forum of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. A friend of both President Clinton and Senator John Kerry and fellow antiwar activist from Georgia, Mr Charles Searcy, was appointed as a humanitarian aid representative for Vietnam, on a project jointly funded by the US Government and the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation headed by Mr Robert Muller, also a well-known antiwar activist. Vietnam then announced that it would issue its first real estate license to Senator John Kerry's cousin, Mr Stuart Forbes, CEO of the Boston-based Colliers International. Representative "Pete" Peterson was appointed by President Clinton as Ambassador to Vietnam. Senator John McCain became Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. Mr John Huang, was ultimately appointed as Vice-Chairman of the national fundraising committee of the Democratic Party. Mr Huang's fund raising efforts included a visit by Vice President Gore to a Buddhist Temple in California headed by Vietnamese born Summa Ching Hai, a long time associate of both Huang and Little Rock, AR restaurant owner Charlie Trii. Highly classified documents of the Vietnam Communist Party (VCP), recently declassified in the National Archives, indicate that the Religious Proselytizing Department of the VCP, code named V.417, successfully infiltrated cadre into the Buddhist Sect in the former Republic of Vietnam during the 1960's. According to the Chairman of the Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia Vietnamese Association, some of the cadre mentioned in the documents have since arrived in the US as refugees. These same cadre, currently in leadership positions in the Buddhist Sect in California, now profess to be staunch anti-Communists. Testimony from members of the staff at the temple involved in the fundraising, as well as numerous others involved, indicate that those participating in the scheme of Huang were well aware that the sole purpose of the visit by the Vice President was to raise money for the Clinton-Gore campaign. In fact, the only person involved who has publicly claimed to be unaware that the event was a fund raiser is Vice President Gore himself.
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