Posted on 08/29/2009 8:20:52 AM PDT by Rampolla
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."
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Yes. He was.
YES
Yes, but here’s hard proof from the Soviet Archives! It’s not about figuring it out.
Here’s hard proof from the Soviet Archives! It’s not about figuring it out. Here’s the proof.
Here’s hard proof from the Soviet Archives! It’s not about figuring it out. Here’s the proof.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Teddy was more than a traitor. He was a murderer, a liar, a deceiver, a destroyer, a womanizer and a very evil piece of trash.
Our good friend across the aisle.
I think it is more along the lines of “this has been known for years” kind of thing. But, you are right to post it. The mainstream press has never reported this and has actually buried it. So it is new to many people. Had I not been a FR junkie I might have not known either.
He is but following his father’s lead. From his post at the US Embassy in London, during the cities destruction from the German bombers, Joe Kennedy was actively in contact with Hitler’s ministers to thwart FDR and keep the USA out of the war.
But they didn’t have the Soviet archive evidence.
Democraps have been selling out the US for years and years.
Yes, you’re right.
Without even knowing at the time about the Swimmer’s ouverture to the Soviets, I saw in 1982 how Kennedy was pushing for a “nuclear freeze” as a premise for strategic talks, which would have left USSR/Warsaw Pact with a tremendous advantage in missiles already installed.
BTW, I was stationed in Germany at the time; leftie demonstrations were everywhere against installing new Pershing III (?) missiles and they even went nuts over the brand new Patriot antimissile systems.
The crazies in Western Europe knew thay had Kennedy & others on their side. When Kennedy’s KGB connection was exposed, his chief of staff merely replied, “Well, you can’t afford to get picky in your choice of allies for the cause of world peace!”
Kennedy will not be missed.
I re-read the first line of the story by Robinson. It states the archives were open in 1991 but did Tim Robinson of the London Times find this memorandum re Kennedy then, or did it just surface as news as a recent discovery?
I re-read the first line of the story by Robinson. It states the archives were open in 1991 but did Tim Robinson of the London Times find this memorandum re Kennedy then, or did it just surface as news as a recent discovery?
John? John McCain, is that you?
Oh, I'm sorry Orin. You sounded like Sen. McCain for a moment there.
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