Senator Ted Kennedy cooperated with the KGB, Soviet leaders to undermine Reagan

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.

“You haven’t answered why you think it might not be the right time to discuss traitor Kennedy’s evil acts against our country.”

Read my post. Because he just died.

I don’t suppose you liked it when the liberals jumped all over Reagan the day he died...did you?

“But the man just died....is this really necessary?”

The “man” was a POS — a cheater, murderer and traitor. Why should we respect the memory of him when he never respected America or Americans? He left a young woman to die who could’ve lived if extracted from the car within a short time. (But it was more important for him to run away and “lawyer up” instead of providing help.) He loved the idea of killing unborn children. He consorted with the enemy. He wanted to force socialized medicine on us in the middle class but retain his above-average care. He got caught cheating in college. He was a womanizer. (Really — does the phrase “waitress sandwich” speak well of America’s senators?) Yes; this really IS necessary. All this and more.

Kcvl, We all don’t agree with Kennedy’s politics, that’s for sure. But the man just died....is this really necessary?

History must be preserved somehow, especially in these times where history is grotesquely manipulated for political purposes.

WOW... Great synopsis of an American STAIN. Nice job.

“But the man just died....is this really necessary?”

Yes it is necessary.

KENNEDY is a TRAITOR and should not be honored. I’ve never forgotten about these letters he wrote against his own country.

I get mad every time anyone honors him, including all his RINO buddies. WHY SHOULD WE HONOR A TRAITOR?
The press covered this up when the letters and information were first discovered in the KGB archives. Very few people know about them.

Of course, he will always be remembered for his part in the death of Mary Joe, and his behavior afterwards. Anyone else would have been charged with manslaughter at the least and possibly murder, it the rumors were true of his actions. We will never know because there wasn’t a proper investigation of the incident.

Very few people know that Joe Kennedy, the father of this dynasty, was a Nazi sympathizer, and consented to have his own daughter lobotomized, because she was staying out late as a teenager and wasn’t as quick as the other Kennedy children.

Ted and Joe Kennedy should never be honored.

“Kcvl,

We all don’t agree with Kennedy’s politics, that’s for sure.

But the man just died....is this really necessary?”

Yes, it is necessary. Kennedy should have been hung for high treason.

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An outrage. .......... they are lamenting his passing and his "Senate collegiality".....which comes as a surprise to Robert Bork, of whom the collegial Ted said in 1986: "Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters . . ."

So much for collegiality.

Kennedy is now endlessly lauded for his support of "women's rights," ie, abortion. Here was his 1971 take on abortion: "Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized -- the right to be born, the right to love, the right to grow old."

He treated his first wife like dirt...leaving her unconscious in the back seat of a car while he partied. No wonder she became an alcoholic.

(GAG) THIS IS THE MAN WHO MADE OSAMA (sic) PRESIDENT With a TelePrompTer, Teddy was articulate, but not when he wasn't reading a prepared statement. In 2005, at the National Press Club, he referred to the current president as "Osama bin La -- uh, Osama, Obama, uh, Obama."

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