They should have awarded him "Hero of the Soviet Union."
Posted on 06/11/2015 12:14:50 PM PDT by jazusamo
Ten U.S. Senators and three representatives were the Soviet Union’s favorite members of Congress when the Communist nation was our worst enemy, according to a previously classified Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report obtained by Judicial Watch.
The federal lawmakers had repeated contact with Communist diplomats who “cultivated” relationships with them during the Cold War, the records show. JW obtained the information by using the Mandatory Declassification Review process and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The records are from an FBI operation that monitored Soviet officials and establishments in Washington, D.C. and determine that there is a “continuing interest by representatives of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) to maintain contacts with and cultivate members or staff personnel of the U.S. Congress.”
Contact between members of Congress, their staff and representatives of the Soviet Union are documented between 1964 and 1972. A compilation of the contacts from January 1, 1967 to July 28, 1970 reveals that Communist diplomats had a total of 180 contacts with U.S. Senators, 94 with members of the House and 832 with their congressional staff. The records show 1967 to be the most active year with 77 Communist interactions with U.S. Senators, 55 with representatives and 265 with staff employees.
Not surprisingly, Ted Kennedy one of the 10 senators that appears on the Communist list. A few years ago JW sued the FBI for once-secret documents that reveal the late Massachusetts senator sought meetings with Communists and others with left-wing views during a tour of several Latin American countries. Kennedy also made arrangements to rent a brothel for an entire night, according to the records which say the veteran lawmaker insisted on interviewing “the angry young men” of each country and meeting with a communist in Bogota that had been mentioned in U.S. investigations of Soviet spy rings.
Besides being tight with Communists, Kennedy was also famous for driving his car into a pond in Chappaquiddick, east of Martha’s Vineyard after a night of partying. The senator escaped the accident unscathed while his mistress, 28-year-old Democratic campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned in the car. Kennedy had an expired license and had been drinking at the party yet he only got a slap on the hand, a two-month suspended jail sentence. The tragedy at Chappaquiddick became known as the most brilliant cover-up ever achieved in a nation where investigative procedures are well developed. Two decades after the horrific event more light was shed on the cover-up when the foreman of the grand jury that investigated the accident confessed that the panel was pressured by a judge and a prosecutor not to pursue the case. The foreman said the jury was manipulated and blocked from doing its job.
Here are the others that appear on the FBI list of Communist favorites during the Cold War: South Dakota Senator George McGovern, Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale, Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy, Maine Senator Edmund Muskie, Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield, Montana Senator Mike Mansfield, Arkansas Senator J.W. Fullbright, Louisiana Senator Allen Ellender and Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke. House members include James Fulton of Pennsylvania, Robert Leggett of California and Donald Riegle of Michigan.
Would love the see the listing of favs by the chi-coms and the ruskies today!
They hate America. It’s always been clear. They need a cell at Leavenworth.
Are you not being too soft?
Yep, I’d venture to say it’s a much longer list than this.
Sen. Edward Brooke, the first black man elected to the US Senate by popular vote, was a guest of honor at Hillary’s graduation. In her speech as valedictorian she attacked him (for not being far enough to the left).
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Now, the next step in the process is to check the KGB archives that were declassified after the Cold War...see how many of these pols were actually Russian agents. Might also be interesting to see if any of them were recorded during the Verona intercepts.
Have we found their CPUSA membership cards yet? Remember too that these were the leading voices of opposition to the Vietnam War. Ba$tards.
No surprises there.
Today: Every democrat would be on the list those funded from the communist parties abroad and inside.
Plus how many TV and press corpse members in Obola’s ABCNBCBS?
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Not much of a surprise, but it could point the way to additional investigations into areas of coordination if not collusion.
For instance Mondale was pulling all sorts of crap to shut down the Moon program in the wake of the Apollo 1 fire.
And, as an aside, Fulbright was Bill Clinton’s political mentor, wasn’t he?
I read that Clinton has said that and believe it.
To cut to the chase, while there is an obvious left tilt to the list, I can think of any number of Senators and Representatives during that period who were further left than most of those listed. Bella Abzug, Alan Cranston, and Ron Dellums come to mind, and I am sure others will access old (mental) files and add to that list. For the really suspect cases, the Russians might well have minimized contact, or gone to extreme lengths to deal indirectly, in order to avoid additional scrutiny to some folks who may well have been very conscious collaborators.
There sure are a lot of presidential and vice-presidential candidates on that list.
One of them was, a vice president.
I'd guess somewhere north of 90%.
There was talk years ago Fullbright may have been BJ’s father...
and he was a republican.....
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