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Kennedy, The KGB And The Media
IBD Editorials ^ | August 31, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

Posted on 08/31/2009 5:33:15 PM PDT by Kaslin

Media Malpractice: Among the many encomiums that the mainstream media showered on the late senator from Massachusetts, something was curiously missing: the link between Sen. Ted Kennedy and the KGB.


Shortly after the Soviet archives were opened up following the collapse of communism in 1991, Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, came across a strange memo.

It purported to detail how in the 1984 political season Kennedy tried to enlist the aid of the Soviet regime, then headed by former KGB chief Yuri Andropov, to get President Reagan defeated.

When we first heard of this, we thought it must be a mistake. Or a hoax. But it appears to be neither. Indeed, to our knowledge, the memo written by then-KGB chief Victor Chebrikov to Andropov has never been challenged as a fake.

And what it says is simply shocking.

The memo describes a visit by former Sen. John Tunney of California to Moscow in 1983. Tunney was sent at Kennedy's behest to sound out the Soviet leadership about helping out the Democrats with the upcoming '84 general election.

As Chebrikov's memo notes, Kennedy thought Reagan had trumped the Democrats on national security — especially their push for a nuclear freeze, which faltered after Reagan successfully got European leaders to deploy Pershing II missiles in Europe.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: kennedy; kgb; putin; russia; sovietunion
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1 posted on 08/31/2009 5:33:15 PM PDT by Kaslin
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment

Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

2 posted on 08/31/2009 5:34:09 PM PDT by narses (http://www.theobamadisaster.com/)
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3 posted on 08/31/2009 5:34:30 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for 0bama: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

Dead Ted Kennedy in 1983 asking the KGB to help him submarine Reagan...if I’d have known at the time, I might have attempted to reunite the three brothers.


4 posted on 08/31/2009 5:37:44 PM PDT by flowerplough (You're going to destroy my presidency! -Bammy, quoted secondhand by Chuck Grassley)
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To: Kaslin

Maybe Obama will award Teddy a posthumous Order of Lenin.


5 posted on 08/31/2009 5:43:19 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Kaslin

I remember when this item was first publicized many years ago and couldn’t remember the salient facts until reading this article. Our media has been trash for many years but it has taken the Internet to expose just how evil they are. How sweet it is that Kennedy and Cronkite are gone!


6 posted on 08/31/2009 5:52:10 PM PDT by balls
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To: ETL; Tailgunner Joe; GOP_1900AD

PING


7 posted on 08/31/2009 5:53:39 PM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: Travis McGee
Maybe Obama will award Teddy a posthumous Order of Lenin.

Obama is busy earning his own.
8 posted on 08/31/2009 5:54:00 PM PDT by alecqss
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To: Kaslin

Conspiring with a hostile foreign power against the elected government of the United States. Treason.


9 posted on 08/31/2009 5:56:29 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: Kaslin

Kennedy never met a Communist dictator he didn’t like.

All these people praising Ted Kennedy have brought out in stark relief the fact that we are two seperate countries occupying the same land mass.


10 posted on 08/31/2009 7:12:01 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: Thunder90

Thanks for the ping.


11 posted on 08/31/2009 9:27:56 PM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Travis McGee

Obama would have to get Vladimir Putin or Dimitri Mediviev to issue this award.


12 posted on 08/31/2009 9:45:38 PM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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Ted Kennedy and the KGB By: Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, May 15, 2008

And Ted Kennedy was a crucial endorser of that undocumented Active Measure, ali-Hussein.

As the Holzers documented in Aid and Comfort: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam, there is a tradition of Leftist treason in the latter part of the Twentieth Century.

Venona showed McCarthy to have been correct.

John Kerry and Walter Cronkite helped the enemy in Vietnam.

Horowitz may recall the Rosenbergs, but we know Clinton donors C. Michael Armstrong of Hughes and Bernard L. Schwarz of Loral sent the PLA a 200-page fax in 1995 which brought their missile reliability up to lethality.

Who can forget ali-Hussein CommerceSec designate Beer Richardson who slandered one-time FReeper Nola Trulock to cover for Warhead Hacker Wen Ho Lee.

Edward Mole Kennedy, not just a murderer of one woman and millions of babies, not just the slanderer of Robert Bork, not just the drunken fornicating lyin' of the Senate, but the highest ranking traitor in the Legislative Branch of the Republic.

Now getting a richly deserved warm welcome from other heroes of the revolution.

13 posted on 08/31/2009 10:03:54 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: PhilDragoo

Ted Kennedy and the KGB
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, May 15, 2008
http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30980

Thanks for this FPM link!

14 posted on 08/31/2009 10:08:40 PM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL
David Horowitz, Radical Son, is a fascinating book.

He underwent a conversion almost unheard of, swept from the Left to the Right over the Black Panthers' murder of an innocent woman.

How much support would Daniel Ortega have if the Left acknowledged he serially sexually abused his daughter from the age of eleven?

Testimony of Zoilamérica Narváez against her adoptive father Daniel Ortega Saavedra

15 posted on 08/31/2009 10:36:11 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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ON THE INTERNET:

AMERICAN THINKER.com - blog: "THE KGB, KENNEDY, AND CARTER" by James Simpson (SNIPPET: "The restrictions that Kennedy successfully put in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act were so tight that when the FBI arrested Zacarias Moussaoui (the so-called 20th highjacker) in August 2001, they could not get permission to download his computer since FBI headquarters understood that they did not have enough evidence to get a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. After 9/11 when they did download his computer they found, among other interesting things, information on the air currents over New York. After 9/11 Kennedy and other demagogues in the Congress blamed the FBI and CIA for the intelligence failure.") (August 31, 2009)
AMERICAN THINKER.com - blog: "KENNEDY AND THE KGB" by Paul Kengor (August 31, 2009)

IBD EDITORIALS.com: "KENNEDY, THE KGB AND THE MEDIA" by Investor's Business Daily (August 31, 2009)

stepping back in time...FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "TED KENNEDY'S SOVIET ROMANCE" by Jamie Glazov (November 8, 2006)

Link

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16 posted on 09/01/2009 1:58:42 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Kaslin
[Article] The memo describes a visit by former Sen. John Tunney of California to Moscow in 1983.

According to other articles previously linked on FR, other researchers in Soviet files established previously that Sen. John Tunney was a Soviet asset -- a KGB collaborator, and perforce a traitor.

The meeting with Tunney, Sen. Kennedy, Dr. Armand Hammer, Amb. Dobrynin, and General Secretary Yuri Adropov has also been previously described, together with quotes from Kennedy's personal appeal.

17 posted on 09/01/2009 4:17:13 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: PhilDragoo
Who can forget ali-Hussein CommerceSec designate Beer Richardson who slandered one-time FReeper Nola <sic> Trulock ....

Notra Trulock was a FReeper? What was his FR screen name?

I'd love to shake his hand some time, as one who went up against the Beast.

18 posted on 09/01/2009 4:22:15 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Kaslin

Kennedy’s had much more to do with organized crime than the KGB.


19 posted on 09/01/2009 5:36:48 AM PDT by SQUID
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To: Kaslin; AngelesCrestHighway; NormsRevenge; SierraWasp; Marine_Uncle; Fred Nerks; SE Mom; Allegra; ..
I posted this ...FR Thread:

I.F. Stone, Soviet Agent—Case Closed

20 posted on 09/01/2009 11:37:13 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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