Posted on 05/14/2018 10:00:33 PM PDT by TBP
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."
Kennedy's message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. "The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations," the memorandum stated. "These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign."
Kennedy made Andropov a couple of specific offers.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Wow.
Holy cow. I don’t think this is small at ALL.
This is knock it out of the part, completely, what the dems have been trying to claim is happening with Trump.
HAPPENING WITH THE OLD SOVIET UNION.
Wow. Bump.
The link to Forbes is broke. I’ve heard about this history before on the Mark Levin show.
bmp
It points to a few things: one Kennedy was a bigger POS then anyone in the DNC wished to let on. Two, Tunney was just as bad. Three, they were confident they could get the “fair” media to do their bidding.
And Kennedy is buried at Arlington.
Makes my blood boil. If the ground at Arlington was not so sacrosanct to me, I would visit with a keg of beer and a covey of like-minded Americans to “convey my respects” appropriately.
Drunken Ted is buried at Arlington???? Awesome! I’m going down there in a few weeks.I should pay my respect!
[article] Were it not for his election to the Senate, Ted Kennedy ordinary citizen and Army veteran would not otherwise be qualified to be buried at Arlington. This is not a criticism of the desire of the Kennedy family to have Ted buried in the most prestigious cemetery in America since he does qualify under a special law. But it does show that Congress and the governing political class will always demand special treatment for its own members even after they die. Shame on all of them in both parties for devaluing the status of Arlington Cemetery down to the level of special parking spaces at Reagan National Airport and other perks of office.
Drunken Ted is buried at Arlington???? Awesome! I’m going down there in a few weeks.I should pay my respect!
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If you do, make sure you do it very discreetly. Remember the picture of Marines rendering their version of “respect” on their Taliban adversaries. It has more going for it than throwing a shoe against your opponent.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/marine-peed-dead-taliban-buried-arlington-article-1.2126006
He is buried in Arlington, but now resides in his chosen eternal home...Hell.
It does seem like a travesty. Cynthia McKinney or Harry Reid could be buried there.
That isn’t right.
I can’t disagree.
Other similarities, Ted was always drunk, Papadopolous was drunk....hmmmm
I just checked the link, and it worked fine.
I wonder if Kennedy had Tunney in mind as his running mate had he gotten the nomination.
I get a Forbes page but that is the error message I'm getting
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. My family believed in the ideals of American democracy. Donald Trump’s policies discredit them.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/my-family-believed-ideals-american-democracy-donald-trump-s-policies-ncna875406
RFK Jr. is lying on both candidates.
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