Posted on 10/20/2006 9:18:37 AM PDT by piytar
In his book, which came out this week, Kengor focuses on a KGB letter written at the height of the Cold War that shows that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) offered to assist Soviet leaders in formulating a public relations strategy to counter President Reagan's foreign policy and to complicate his re-election efforts.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
The sad part is, it won't make a bit of difference to MA voters. Kennedy is King -- no matter how many dead bodies he leaves in his wake.
That's like a Brontosaurus trying to rub out it's footprints.
Apparently this KGB memo was reported February 2 of 1992 by the London Times, according to Media Watch:
CAPITOL COVERUPS. The media's double standard on scandal -- executive branch yes, Congress no -- continues. The Washington Times discovered cocaine dealing in the House of Representatives' post office. Unlike the networks, most major papers and wire services ran a couple of stories by February 6. The next day, the Times reported House postmaster Robert Rota's charge that Speaker Foley's wife, Heather, had told him to cover up the scandal. The national media's response: nothing to date.
There's more. The February 2 London Sunday Times reported a 1983 memo from KGB chieftain Victor Chebrikov, who told Yuri Andropov that Ted Kennedy wanted a meeting to discuss how to counter Reagan's arms buildup. Wrote the Times: "It appeared [the Soviets] understood it as an attempt to boost Kennedy's own political fortunes with their assistance." Just as they ignored recent evidence of Democrats plotting strategies with the Sandinistas, the major media are ignoring Kennedy's indiscretions.
LOL! Orcas are also attractive, streamlined, noble, respectable, non-alcoholic... and they don't bray.
bookmark
Oh, well, as Scarlett said, "Tomorrow is another day."
Leni
Thanks......Bump
Try 1992. See my #243. Although the MSM seems to have done a pretty thorough job of flushing this down the memory hole. Can't find a single reference to the '92 London Times story anywhere except at Media Watch.
"The Constitution says nothing about "in time of war" in it's definition of treason."
Hence the photo of Ames. Horrorifying and cold blooded treason:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/ames/1.html
During the nine years that he worked for the KGB as a mole, Ames single handily shut down the CIA’s eyes and ears in the Soviet Union by telling the Russians in 1985 the names of every “human asset” that the U.S. had working for it there. In all, he sold the KGB the names of twenty-five “sources.” These twenty-four men and one woman, all Russians, were immediately arrested and ten were sentenced to what the KGB euphemistically referred to as vyshaya mera (the highest measure of punishment). The condemned person was taken into a room, made to kneel, then shot in the back of the head with a large caliber handgun so his face would be made unrecognizable. His body was buried in a secret, unmarked grave to further punish his loved ones. It was part of the Stalinist tradition.
Feb 2nd, 1992 you say. Sounds like a trip to the library the story is probably on hard copy somewhere.
Thank you for your service, Quikdrw. Much appreciation.
1992. See my #243.
A second report reflecting Kennedy's exchanges with the KGB about his desire to become president was found in the Soviet annals by Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, who published the report in the newspaper in February 1992.
The aforementioned letter referenced here would be a good start: Kengor focuses on a KGB letter written at the height of the Cold War
Hundreds of treasonous American liberals have secret ties to the Soviets. Half of our country is the USA, and the other half is the USSA.
Nothing ever changes.
Then - Reagan is the single biggest threat to world peace.
Now - Bush is the single biggest threat to world peace.
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And the msm mantra is that everyone in the world loved America until GWB was elected. How short are their memories!!!!!
Does anyone remember this story? At the time it came out I was living in Vancouver - the only conservative in the whole city - and had no one to talk to about such news items. this woman reminded me so much of Maddie Albright.
****Britain's MI5 chief ordered to explain why great-granny spy not prosecuted****
Mrs. Norwood, a former secretary at British Non-Ferrous Metal Research Association which helped develop the atomic bomb, began spying in 1937 and continued until her retirement in 1972
London - The Associated Press
A Cabinet minister on Monday met the head of Britain's MI5 intelligence agency to determine why a great-grandmother who gave Britain's atomic secrets to the Soviet Union was never prosecuted.
Home Secretary Jack Straw met Stephen Lander as the government came under increasing pressure to prosecute 87-year-old Melita Norwood.
Straw made no immediate comment after the meeting. Aides said a statement would be issued later on Monday.
Even Mrs. Norwood's daughter, expressing astonishment at the 40-year spying career of her mother, a former secretary, said she should be questioned - but not prosecuted.
"She has very clear views on issues. I am surprised she took it this far but I understand why she did it," Anita Ferguson, 56, said in a British Broadcasting Corp. television interview. "... I do believe she should be investigated. She should be questioned by police."
In her modest house in Bexley Heath, a suburban sprawl southwest of London, Mrs. Norwood, totally unrepentant, laughed at all the fuss, The Times of London reported.
"Oh dear, this is all so different from my quiet little life," The Times, which had two reporters spend on Sunday with her, quoted her as saying. "I thought I'd got away with it."
Mrs. Norwood and another British spy, a corrupt former London policeman, John Symonds, 64, were unmasked in a new book based on KGB archives smuggled out of the Soviet Union by Vasili Mitrokhin.
An archivist for the Soviet intelligence service, Mitrokhin defected to the West in 1992.
The Times of London began serializing the book, "The Mitrokhin Archive," by Cambridge academic Christopher Andrew on Saturday, thus introducing Mrs. Norwood and much other information on Soviet espionage activities to the world.
For example, The Times reported on Monday, the books reveals that caches of booby-trapped weapons hidden by Soviet agents for possible sabotage attacks, are hidden all over north America, Europe, Israel and Japan, and are now unstable.
A key question is how long MI5 knew about the new spies - more are expected to be identified - after Mitrokhin defected, whether MI5 concealed the information from government ministers, and who decided not to prosecute.
Straw, a member of Prime Minister Tony Blair's 2 1/2-year-old Labor Party government says he knew nothing about Mrs. Norwood. His predecessor also denies knowledge.
"Many spies have been jailed for up to 40 years," said opposition Conservative Party spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe, leading calls for prosecution.
Mrs. Norwood, a former secretary at British Non-Ferrous Metal Research Association which helped develop the atomic bomb, began spying in 1937 and continued until her retirement in 1972, the book said.
In a statement she read out at the weekend, the frail, lifelong member of Britain's tiny Communist Party said she would do it all again.
Mitrokhin, 77, is living in Britain under a false name with round-the-clock protection, The Times said on Monday.
Ex-policeman Symonds says in a BBC documentary to be broadcast Sept. 19 - excerpts were screened on Sunday - that the Soviets trained him as a "Romeo agent," who seduced women working at Western embassies into revealing secret information.
"It was very pleasant, I was taught by ... two extremely beautiful girls," he added.
Symonds fled Britain in the 1970s, and was recruited by the KGB in Morocco, returned home in 1980, was jailed for two years for corruption, then sold his story about spying to London's Daily Express in 1985. Officials apparently dismissed it.
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/archives.php?id=14096
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