Posted on 10/27/2006 4:04:16 AM PDT by Graybeard58
Sen. Christopher J. Dodd is a favorite useful idiot of communist dictators, beginning with Pol Pot in the 1970s and extending through Fidel Castro and Daniel Ortega in the 1980s, Red China in the 1990s, and now Hugo Chavez and other Latin American tin-pot tyrants.
Now a new book documents how Sen. Dodd's old drinking buddy, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., tried to undermine Ronald Reagan's attempts to bring down the Soviet Union. In "The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism," Paul Kengor, a political-science professor at Grove City College, reveals how Sen. Kennedy in 1983 offered to help the Soviets thwart the Reagan administration's foreign policies that ultimately won the Cold War. He proposed then-Soviet dictator Yuri Andropov consent to interviews on American television in which he would assure Americans the Soviets only wanted peace and that Mr. Reagan was a madman. Sen. Kennedy "hoped to counter Reagan's polices, and by extension hurt his re-election prospects," Mr. Kengor wrote. But Mr. Andropov died before this subterfuge could be set in motion.
Mr. Kengor said Sen. Kennedy's offer was made through one of his regular Moscow mules, former U.S. Sen. John Tunney, D-Calif. In 1978, according to KGB documents, Mr. Tunney got Soviet contracts for his company, Agritech, thanks to Sen. Kennedy's arm-twisting at a meeting with Kremlin officials arranged by David Karr, who once was "the KGB controller" for communist-sympathizing columnist Drew Pearson.
Human Events reported in 2003 that declassified KGB documents showed Mr. Tunney went to Moscow in 1980 to brief the Soviets about Sen. Kennedy's plans to blunt Jimmy Carter's criticism of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and its ambitions for expansion in the Persian Gulf. Mr. Tunney later admitted to making 15 trips to Moscow on behalf of Sen. Kennedy and other pro-Soviet senators.
Sen. Kennedy's Soviet sympathies also were on display in 1978 when he pushed through Congress the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which at his insistence severely restricted government wiretap powers so he could continue his clandestine contacts with the Kremlin free of interference from U.S. intelligence agencies, Human Events reported. FISA rules were so tight, they ultimately prevented the CIA and FBI from heading off 9/11.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, leftist operatives in and out of the U.S. government have claimed America has nothing to fear from communists, and cry "McCarthyism" anytime someone questions their patriotism. But with North Korea now rattling nuclear sabers, with socialist and communist regimes becoming more plentiful in Latin America and with China wielding a growing influence in the world, Americans need to know where their leaders' sympathies lie and be more circumspect about electing useful idiots.
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I just cannot help but think of the book Animal Farm, when I read that name Teddy Kennedy, it is almost like the author was writing his profile.
First time I've seen this revelation picked up by any media other than CNS.
In the 80's, I was convinced that Chris Dodd was KGB -- real-deal KGB, like disgraced newsman Sam Jaffa and Alger Hiss.
I also thought the same about Bill Fulbright, based on the pattern of his politicking, and I wondered about Wayne Morse of Oregon, too. I never guessed Ted Kennedy, but it would appear from the book (there was another thread on this a few days ago emphasizing the identification of Sen. Tunney as a KGB mole) that Ted Kennedy was the ringleader of the whole bunch. That would explain just a whole lot of things over the years.
Now we need a new book, titled something like Red Caucus, about traitors in the United States Congress and their allies and fellow-travelers in the press and politics.
The acorn doesnt fall too far from the tree. Didnt Teds father have a friendly relationship with Hitler?
Thanks again Massachusetts.
Ann Coulter stated in her book (and of course I agree with her) that McCarthy erred in his estimation of the number of communists in government, in that he under estimated.
Time, as Monty Python fans would say, for the "Comfy Chair".
Which character? Napoleon, or Squealer?
LOL, now that depends on the time day it is, but the majority of the time he is 'Napoleon'!!!!!
Even fat, drunk, slobering acorns don't fall too far from the tree......
Incredible.
We waste 3 weeks talking about a phony scandal, while a sitting US Senator is revealed to have been a Soviet agent.
Unfortunately, the voters of Mass. don't care.
Clinton/China
"We waste 3 weeks talking about a phony scandal, while a sitting US Senator is revealed to have been a Soviet agent."
Well said, we live in a mad world alright.
bttt
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