Posted on 08/29/2009 8:20:52 AM PDT by Rampolla
Picking his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown open, in 1991 Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, came across an arresting memorandum. Composed in 1983 by Victor Chebrikov, the top man at the KGB, the memorandum was addressed to Yuri Andropov, the top man in the entire USSR. The subject: Sen. Edward Kennedy. "On 9-10 May of this year," the May 14 memorandum explained, "Sen. Edward Kennedy's close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow." (Tunney was Kennedy's law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) "The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov."
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Yes. He was.
YES
Yes, but here’s hard proof from the Soviet Archives! It’s not about figuring it out.
Here’s hard proof from the Soviet Archives! It’s not about figuring it out. Here’s the proof.
Here’s hard proof from the Soviet Archives! It’s not about figuring it out. Here’s the proof.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Teddy was more than a traitor. He was a murderer, a liar, a deceiver, a destroyer, a womanizer and a very evil piece of trash.
Our good friend across the aisle.
I think it is more along the lines of “this has been known for years” kind of thing. But, you are right to post it. The mainstream press has never reported this and has actually buried it. So it is new to many people. Had I not been a FR junkie I might have not known either.
He is but following his father’s lead. From his post at the US Embassy in London, during the cities destruction from the German bombers, Joe Kennedy was actively in contact with Hitler’s ministers to thwart FDR and keep the USA out of the war.
But they didn’t have the Soviet archive evidence.
Democraps have been selling out the US for years and years.
Yes, you’re right.
Without even knowing at the time about the Swimmer’s ouverture to the Soviets, I saw in 1982 how Kennedy was pushing for a “nuclear freeze” as a premise for strategic talks, which would have left USSR/Warsaw Pact with a tremendous advantage in missiles already installed.
BTW, I was stationed in Germany at the time; leftie demonstrations were everywhere against installing new Pershing III (?) missiles and they even went nuts over the brand new Patriot antimissile systems.
The crazies in Western Europe knew thay had Kennedy & others on their side. When Kennedy’s KGB connection was exposed, his chief of staff merely replied, “Well, you can’t afford to get picky in your choice of allies for the cause of world peace!”
Kennedy will not be missed.
I re-read the first line of the story by Robinson. It states the archives were open in 1991 but did Tim Robinson of the London Times find this memorandum re Kennedy then, or did it just surface as news as a recent discovery?
I re-read the first line of the story by Robinson. It states the archives were open in 1991 but did Tim Robinson of the London Times find this memorandum re Kennedy then, or did it just surface as news as a recent discovery?
John? John McCain, is that you?
Oh, I'm sorry Orin. You sounded like Sen. McCain for a moment there.
I found the answer. Indeed it was out there already. Tim Sebastian of the London Times and BBC, found the Kennedy document and reported it in the February 2, 1992 edition of the Times, in an article titled, “Teddy, the KGB and the top secret file.”
As far as I know, this is the first time this story has ever made into into the MSM. Sure, we’ve heard about it in FR, but very few others have.
It was a huge story, but the press buried it.
This is a guest piece from a member of the Hoover Institute, but it’s still interesting that Forbes published it. The headline is a bit wishy-washy, but the story itself is clearly and plainly told, including the information that this was a partisan political deal—Kennedy betraying his country and illegally dealing with a foreign power, in return for political advantage in the next election.
Joe Kennedy was fiercly anti communist, and soon got the old heave -ho. One lesson that helped bullet proof Saint Teddy.
Well, now I see that it was in the London Times in 1992.
I didn’t see it back then, and clinton was about ready to take things over, with the eager support of the media. So it died quickly.
And none dare call it treason.
It's alright. The more this is repeated the better. His legacy should be known.
Kennedy deserves a traitor’s burial - a pine box in an unmarked grave, buried face down so his corpse can see where his putrid soul has gone.
Instead, the traitor will be buried in Arlington with full honors. What a disgrace...
And yet, he will be buried in Arlington.
haaaaaaaate
Really don’t care where you are right now, Teddy.
And right now the catholic chirche is honoring him and sending his sorry ass to catholic heaven, wherever that is.
Didn’t Obama do something similar to this before the election?
None too demanding.
Treason, pure and simple. May he roast for eternity.
Isn’t it ironic that the man who led the charge to defund the Vietnam War and bail on our South Vietnamese allies - leaving them to the “mercies” of the Viet Cong, Ho Chi Minh and his henchmen - not to mention the “Killing Fields” of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia immediately following the end of the Vietnam War - should be buried so near to those veterans who, in many cases, laid down their lives to prevent the spread of Communist/Socialist totalitarianism?
The Liberal Lion was a Seditious Sot.
Aim I shocked: Democrats aiding our enemies for political gain? How about losing Vietnam, trying to lose Iraq, both for political gain? Does John Murtha ring a bell?
I heard about it years ago, but never found any details on it. Good to see it exposed to the light of day.
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