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Ted Kennedy's Soviet Gambit
Forbes ^ | 8-28-09 | Peter Robinson

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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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: andropov; coldwar; johntunney; kennedy; kennedylegacy; kgb; ronaldreagan; seditioussot; treachery; tunny; ussr
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To: Rampolla

I found the answer. Indeed it was out there already. Tim Sebastian of the London Times and BBC, found the Kennedy document and reported it in the February 2, 1992 edition of the Times, in an article titled, “Teddy, the KGB and the top secret file.”


21 posted on 08/29/2009 8:49:16 AM PDT by Rampolla
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To: Rampolla

As far as I know, this is the first time this story has ever made into into the MSM. Sure, we’ve heard about it in FR, but very few others have.

It was a huge story, but the press buried it.

This is a guest piece from a member of the Hoover Institute, but it’s still interesting that Forbes published it. The headline is a bit wishy-washy, but the story itself is clearly and plainly told, including the information that this was a partisan political deal—Kennedy betraying his country and illegally dealing with a foreign power, in return for political advantage in the next election.


22 posted on 08/29/2009 8:56:57 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: bert

Joe Kennedy was fiercly anti communist, and soon got the old heave -ho. One lesson that helped bullet proof Saint Teddy.


23 posted on 08/29/2009 8:58:00 AM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: Cicero

Well, now I see that it was in the London Times in 1992.

I didn’t see it back then, and clinton was about ready to take things over, with the eager support of the media. So it died quickly.


24 posted on 08/29/2009 8:58:58 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Rampolla

And none dare call it treason.


25 posted on 08/29/2009 9:06:30 AM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: Rampolla
“In 1992, Tim Sebastian published a story about the memorandum in the London Times. Here in the U.S., Sebastian's story received no attention. In his 2006 book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, historian Paul Kengor reprinted the memorandum in full. “The media,” Kengor says, “ignored the revelation.”

It's alright. The more this is repeated the better. His legacy should be known.

26 posted on 08/29/2009 9:07:34 AM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: Rampolla

Kennedy deserves a traitor’s burial - a pine box in an unmarked grave, buried face down so his corpse can see where his putrid soul has gone.

Instead, the traitor will be buried in Arlington with full honors. What a disgrace...


27 posted on 08/29/2009 9:07:40 AM PDT by piytar (Being asked to report your neighbors to flag@whitehouse.gov is REAL FASCISM! NRA Lifetime Member)
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To: mulligan

And yet, he will be buried in Arlington.


28 posted on 08/29/2009 9:10:00 AM PDT by Crazieman (Feb 7, 2008 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966675/posts?page=28#28)
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To: Rampolla

haaaaaaaate

Really don’t care where you are right now, Teddy.


29 posted on 08/29/2009 9:12:31 AM PDT by mancini
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To: mulligan

And right now the catholic chirche is honoring him and sending his sorry ass to catholic heaven, wherever that is.


30 posted on 08/29/2009 9:20:38 AM PDT by RoshYisrael
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To: Rampolla

Didn’t Obama do something similar to this before the election?


31 posted on 08/29/2009 9:29:52 AM PDT by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney?)
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To: RoshYisrael

None too demanding.


32 posted on 08/29/2009 11:32:43 AM PDT by junta (Conservatives, the word "racism" is now ours.)
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To: Rampolla

Treason, pure and simple. May he roast for eternity.


33 posted on 08/29/2009 12:05:28 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
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To: Crazieman

Isn’t it ironic that the man who led the charge to defund the Vietnam War and bail on our South Vietnamese allies - leaving them to the “mercies” of the Viet Cong, Ho Chi Minh and his henchmen - not to mention the “Killing Fields” of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia immediately following the end of the Vietnam War - should be buried so near to those veterans who, in many cases, laid down their lives to prevent the spread of Communist/Socialist totalitarianism?


34 posted on 08/29/2009 5:38:22 PM PDT by Sons of Union Vets (No taxation without representation!)
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To: Rampolla

The Liberal Lion was a Seditious Sot.


35 posted on 08/30/2009 5:21:13 AM PDT by seton89
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To: Rampolla

Aim I shocked: Democrats aiding our enemies for political gain? How about losing Vietnam, trying to lose Iraq, both for political gain? Does John Murtha ring a bell?


36 posted on 08/30/2009 5:29:19 AM PDT by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing Murtha and his fellow Defeatists want.)
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To: Cicero

I heard about it years ago, but never found any details on it. Good to see it exposed to the light of day.


37 posted on 08/30/2009 7:28:03 AM PDT by rlmorel (Mary Jo Kopechne is now available for comment.-August 26, 2009)
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