Posted on 08/26/2009 12:49:41 PM PDT by kcvl
There are some important reports found in Soviet archives, after the collapse of the Communist dictatorship, that provide an interesting insight into the character of the senior senator from Massachusetts.
One of the documents, a KGB report to bosses in the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, revealed that "In 1978, American Sen. Edward Kennedy requested the assistance of the KGB to establish a relationship" between the Soviet apparatus and a firm owned by former Sen. John Tunney (D.-Calif.). KGB recommended that they be permitted to do this because Tunney's firm was already connected with a KGB agent in France named David Karr. This document was found by the knowledgeable Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats and published in Moscow's Izvestia in June 1992.
Another KGB report to their bosses revealed that on March 5, 1980, John Tunney met with the KGB in Moscow on behalf of Sen. Kennedy. Tunney expressed Kennedy's opinion that "nonsense about 'the Soviet military threat' and Soviet ambitions for military expansion in the Persian Gulf . . . was being fueled by [President Jimmy] Carter, [National Security Advisor Zbigniew] Brzezinski, the Pentagon and the military industrial complex."
Kennedy offered to speak out against President Carter on Afghanistan. Shortly thereafter he made public speeches opposing President Carter on this issue. This document was found in KGB archives by Vasiliy Mitrokhin, a courageous KGB officer, who copied documents from the files and then defected to the West. He wrote about this document in a February 2002 paper on Afghanistan that he released through the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson Center.
In May 1983, the KGB again reported to their bosses on a discussion in Moscow with former Sen. John Tunney. Kennedy had instructed Tunney, according to the KGB, to carry a message to Yuri Andropov, the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, expressing Kennedy's concern about the anti-Soviet activities of President Ronald Reagan. The KGB reported "in Kennedy's opinion the opposition to Reagan remains weak. Speeches of the President's opponents are not well-coordinated and not effective enough, and Reagan has the chance to use successful counterpropaganda." Kennedy offered to "undertake some additional steps to counter the militaristic, policy of Reagan and his campaign of psychological pressure on the American population." Kennedy asked for a meeting with Andropov for the purpose of "arming himself with the Soviet leader's explanations of arms control policy so he can use them later for more convincing speeches in the U.S." He also offered to help get Soviet views on the major U.S. networks and suggested inviting "Elton Rule, ABC chairman of the board, or observers Walter Cronkite or Barbara Walters to Moscow."
Tunney also told the KGB that Kennedy was planning to run for President in the 1988 elections. "At that time, he will be 56 years old, and personal problems that have weakened his position will have been resolved [Kennedy quietly settled a divorce suit and soon plans to remarry]." Of course the Russians understood his problem with Chappaquiddick. While Kennedy did not intend to run in 1984, he did not exclude the possibility that the Democratic Party would draft him because "not a single one of the current Democratic hopefuls has a real chance of beating Reagan."
This document was first discovered in the Soviet archives by London Times reporter Tim Sebastian and a report on it was published in that newspaper in February 1992.
Sen. Kennedy played a major role during the 1970s in Grafting the restrictions that made it so difficult for the FBI and CIA to do the job of protecting the American people. One of the most pernicious restrictions was the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) passed in 1978. President Franklin Roosevelt, in 1940, had ordered the FBI to wiretap Nazis and Communists because they were operating in the United States on behalf of hostile foreign powers. Every President after him used the inherent power of the President to order wiretapping for national security purposes.
Kennedy told the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1976 that "For the last five years, I and others in the Senate have labored unsuccessfully to place some meaningful statutory restrictions on the so-called inherent power of the Executive to engage in surveillance." When Congress discussed legislation to require a court warrant to wiretap enemy agents and terrorists, Kennedy and the ACLU began a campaign to raise the barriers as high as possible. Kennedy introduced the concept in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Bill that required evidence that someone was providing classified information to a foreign intelligence service. Someone who "only" had a clandestine relationship with a foreign intelligence officer and carried out covert influence operations for a foreign power could not be wiretapped. When we see the KGB reports we can understand why Kennedy would want this provision in the law. Kennedy was not a KGB agent. He also was not "a useful idiot" who was used by the KGB without understanding what he was doing. Kennedy was a collaborationist. He aided the KGB for his own political purposes.
But ol' Eddie was really nice to his servants. Doesn't that count for something? NO!!!!
Didn’t Obama do something like that to undermine Bush and the Iraq war?
Yes, I think it's appropriate to remember who Kennedy really was and not some legend.
I would appreciate it if you would keep your lectures to yourself. I am not about to forget what he did to this country. And what he would still be doing had he not died.
Yes, it is always sad when someone you love dies. I didn't love Ted Kennedy and he obviously didn't love this country very much either.
More now than ever.
Just following in Daddy’s footsteps. Old Joe was a huge admirer of Hitler.
Yes it is. Ever hear of equal time? This doesn't even come close to what the media is devoting to this treasonous drunken sot.
We’re flying flags at half mast and planning a state funeral for a traitor. Don’t you find that a bit annoying?
The commies picked a loser for their side. Lucky us. We dodged one Marxist bullet in Reagan and I hope we can dodge the latest bullet, too.
Alright. I give up.
Take your pound of flesh.
McCarthy, Nixon (Rep.at that time) were claiming in the 50's the Communist infiltration of our govt.--which of course was vehemently denied by the left. When the Russian Venona vaults were open, Whitaker Chambers (his book Witness is very good), McCarthy, Nixon & others were vindicated ; Alger Hiss was proven to be the Communist he was convicted for; the Rosenbergs were both shown to be spies. To this day, many leftists decry McCarthy, Nixon and Chamberlain and refute Hiss was Communist.
Not surprised about Kennedy. Of course his family mourns him. Even Mafia godfathers usually want good things for their families. He ws not good for this country.
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“Treason against your country carries both a stigma and a death sentence if we are militarily engaged.”
“The People” had their chance to deal with both Kennedy and Kerry, they failed. Kennedy is now beyond our grasp and these threads serve no useful purpose.... he is now before a judge that will not shrink from his duty and Kerry’s turn will come.
You haven’t answered why you think it might not be the right time to discuss traitor Kennedy’s evil acts against our country.
why not?
if not now , when?
He is a disgusting POS and the truth needs to come out about him.
Firstly, Hitler has died long ago, and yet many books are written about him --- why do you think is that? Perhaps, the death of a notable man does not preclude us from studying him.
And, secondly and more importantly, there has been a lie perpetuated about Ted Kennedy. What morality dictates that the truth should remain hidden after the death of a perpetrator?
“But the man just died....is this really necessary?”
ABSOLUTELY!!!!
The truth regarding jsut how evil this man was needs to be told, especially now that he has just died and they are trying to make a GOD out of him.
Did you feel the same way about the Rosenbergs? Will you say the same when Hanson and Walker die?
Kennedy was a true enemy of the United States.
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