Comrade Cora Weiss Dies, New York Times Glorifies Her in Obit — as Expected

One thing you can count on: The New York Times’ obituary section will never waste an opportunity to vilify a real hero — or glorify a real villain.

Selective Eulogizing

Cora Rubin Weiss has not, in recent years, commanded the headlines that she once did, but those with memories long enough will recall that during her “glory years” (1960s through 1980s) she was not only the darling of communist North Vietnam’s mass-murdering dictator Ho Chi Minh, but also the crusading championess of Soviet “peace” propaganda. “Hanoi Jane” Fonda may have achieved more infamy by her pilgrimage to North Vietnam and lying about how our tortured POWs were being royally treated, but Cora Weiss was far more deeply involved in this treachery and treason, and for a much longer period of time, than her famous Hollywood comrade.

Along with her husband, Peter Weiss, Cora helped found and lead a host of far-far-left organizations, movements, and coalitions, many of which were closely tied to the Communist Party USA, the Soviet KGB, and the Cuban secret police, the DGI. Many of these organizations are still with us, actively promoting the same pro-communist agendas. Foremost among these are the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and the Transnational Institute (TI).

Naturally, the Times covers up this perfidy in its glowing December 8 encomium titled “Cora Weiss, Lifelong Champion of Social Justice, Dies at 91.” Yes, according to the Times, she was an admirable “Lifelong Champion of Social Justice,” not a traitor and barely disguised crypto-communist. The Times does mention her leadership in Women Strike for Peace and the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, but gives readers unfamiliar with the era no clue whatsoever as to the hardcore pro-communist, anti-American nature of the groups. It also fails to note her slavish devotion to advancing communist regimes, communist causes, and the communist/globalist world-government agenda through the United Nations.

Subversion Exposed

Over the past decades, we have exposed her subversive activities in numerous articles in The New American, as well as its predecessor publications American Opinion and The Review of the News.

In a July 4, 2000 report for The New American, for instance, William Norman Grigg bared Cora Weiss’ role at the UN Millennium Forum, as leader of the Hague Appeal for Peace. Grigg noted:

A member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) — the nerve center of America’s globalist elite — Weiss is the daughter of Samuel Rubin, a longtime member of the Communist Party, U.S.A., and the head of a tax-exempt foundation that bears her father’s name. The Samuel Rubin Foundation is the chief financial angel behind the Institute for Policy Studies, a Washington, D.C. “think-tank” connected to the Soviet KGB; Cora Weiss’ husband Peter is IPS chairman. She was among the pro-North Vietnam fifth columnists who undertook a pilgrimage to Hanoi during the Vietnam War. 

Family Background

Cora Weiss (née Rubin) was a privileged “red diaper baby” who grew up in a wealthy family of revolutionaries. Her parents, Samuel and Vera Rubin, were early members of the Communist Party USA. Despite that, Samuel used the opportunities afforded him in the hated “capitalist” United States to amass a cosmetics fortune through the Faberge Perfumes company, which he founded in the 1930s. Cora’s mother, Dr. Vera Rubin, was an anthropologist who, among other things, served the revolutionary cause by promoting the illegal drug culture. Vera was prominently featured as a pro-marijuana “expert” in the June 1978 issue of High Times, the counterculture magazine that has been a leading champion of legalizing all “recreational” narcotics.

Weiss’ Comrades

The Times obit features a photo of a young Cora Weiss “at a news conference in New York City in 1972 with David Dellinger, … the co-chairman of the Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam, and the Rev. William Sloan Coffin Jr., a Yale chaplain.” Some background information neglected by the Times would be helpful. Dr. Roger Canfield’s incredibly detailed three-volume work Comrades in Arms: How the Americong Won the War in Vietnam against the Common Enemy — America provides hundreds of citations showing the absolutely treasonous activities of Weiss, Dellinger, Coffin, et al., especially involving their despicable tormenting of American POWs and POW families by pressuring them to make propaganda statements and by lying about the brutal treatment our POWs were subjected to by Weiss’ communist comrades.  

Weiss and Dellinger were among the trusted few whom the communist Hanoi regime chose to select sympathetic American visitors that could be relied on to retail the Party Line. Canfield writes:

Subject to the approval of the North Vietnamese, favored antiwar leaders such as Tom Hayden, David Dellinger and Cora Rubin Weiss selected all visitors from the U.S., insuring that only those Americans who could be counted on to return to the US to pass on uncritically Hanoi war propaganda. They willingly described horrific napalming of innocent civilians and the intentionally repeated bombing of hospitals, cemeteries, schools, churches and pagodas.  Denied a visa, novelist and WWII veteran James Jones wrote, “The North Viets were notoriously selfish about visas” giving them “to people like Jane Fonda, Wilfred Burchett and Mary McCarthy, people already strongly on their side, thus harvesting bumper crops of unabashed propaganda from each seedling.” Most came back, unaware or willfully blind to how choreographed their hospitality had been, thoroughly charmed, deceived, tearful and angry. Almost all were thereafter committed to a Vietnamese Communist victory over U.S. imperialism.

So enthralled with the Hanoi Reds was Comrade Cora that she published the English translation of communist General Van Tien Dung’s memoir, Our Great Spring Victory. Canfield explains:

In 1976 Cora Weiss acquired the English language copyright of General Dung’s Our Great Spring Victory, an account of how Communist Hanoi conquered the South. “Our victory also springs from many causes [including] the help of the fraternal socialist countries and our friends around the world.

Treason Heavily Documented

The Cora Weiss litany of infamy goes on and on. Take the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (popularly known as New Mobe). To go by the Times account, the outfit was an idealistic “peace” outfit. Canfield capably destroys that narrative. Ditto for Women Strike for Peace (WSP). If you want another comprehensive source on Weiss, Dellinger, New Mobe, WSP, et al., see “Subversive Involvement in the Origin, Leadership, and Activities of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam and Its Predecessor Organizations,” a 103-page report produced in 1970 by the Committee on Internal Security of the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Cora Weiss/Peter Weiss/Samuel Rubin revolutionary trail is also exposed in The War Called Peace: The Soviet Peace Offensive, published in 1982 by Congressman Lawrence P. McDonald’s Western Goals Foundation, shortly before McDonald (D-Ga.) was infamously shot down aboard a commercial Korean Airlines flight (KAL 007) by Soviet fighter jets.

Cora’s husband, Peter Weiss, who lived to be 99 and preceded her in death by several weeks, likewise received lionizing eulogies in the Orwellian lie machine, otherwise known as our Deep State regime media. We are not surprised.