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.
I've got about another month to go on my local grand jury. My gosh, how I wish I was on the K Pig's MA grand jury!
Liberal/socialist/communist/progressive. They are all the same thing; enemies of the US.
Try HUNG or Shot for TREASON!
A great number of DemocRats would be on that list.
I believe the KGB archives are re-classified.
“Would love the see the listing of favs by the chi-coms and the ruskies today!”
It would be a shorter list to show those who are not favs....
... not to be confused with Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy, renown commie hunter Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin whose reputation is irreparably maligned in history by the commies who write American history books.
Joe McCarthy BUMP! A great American.
Most were Democrat / communist Presidential Candidates.
WAS?
OK, OK... So it might appear that Islam and China have moved ahead of Soviet Russia as our "worst" enemy; but Russia is happy to facilitate any attacks on the US by the other two.
Russia hasn't changed. They have simply re-branded, re-grouped and re-attacked from different positions.
And Democrats are still their beyotches.
That Soviet medal should be attached to the Swimmer’s headstone in Arlington where it is said that Scotch fumes continue to rise from his grave.
Betrayed us to the USSR after ramming unlimited immigration into law - Kennedy deserves to lie in unhallowed ground.
At least Mary Jo Kopechne is where she’ll never again see that evil bastard.
If someone is a soft touch and a useful idiot for the enemy doesn't that make them a tool?
Teddy’s the other Kennedy eternal flame.Alcohol and lard burns like napalm.
The book was a real eye-opener on how willing certain contacts in the press and other places such as congressional offices were willing to help the Soviets.
I just added that to my booklist for the Summer.
On the other hand, for Dellums, Abzug, Cranston, and a few other “democrats”, why spend time contacting those who are already in your camp and following communist party orders promptly and properly?
Heh, heh!
;^)
Joseph McCarthy was absolutely correct.
Did commies in our government and MSM help Kennedy duck this murder? Anyone know who orchestrated the cover-up?
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