Posted on 06/22/2010 8:46:33 PM PDT by This Just In
Ted Kennedy's KGB Correspondence
By Kevin Mooney on 6.22.10 @ 6:08AM
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's self-serving, secret correspondence with Soviet agents during the height of the Cold War included proposals for collaborative efforts designed to undermine official U.S. policy set by Democratic and Republican administrations, KGB documents show.
With the media now reporting on the late senator's just released Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file, now is an opportune time for a more expansive investigation into Kennedy's KGB contacts. The agency took a keen interest in a 1961 "fact-finding" trip the Massachusetts Democrat took to Mexico and other parts of Latin America where he may have had contact with communist agents, according to the file.
However, the 2,352 pages of FBI files that cover a period ranging from 1961 to 1985 only tell a small part of the story and do not mention Kennedy's overtures to Soviet officials. These did not become known outside of Moscow until several years after Cold War tensions receded.
Kennedy's long history with the KGB is well documented, but underreported. It remains available through the writings of the now deceased Vasiliy Mitrokhin, who defected to Britain from the Soviet Union in 1992, and a separate 1983 memo addressed to then General Secretary Yuri Andropov. Kennedy's actions occurred at the expense of presidential authority and in violation of federal law, according to academics and scholars who are familiar with the documents.
The Mitrokhin papers highlight a meeting that took place at the behest of Kennedy between former Sen. John Tunney (D-Calif.) and KGB agents in Moscow on March 5, 1980. The information exchanged during this encounter is included as part of a report Mitrokhin filed with the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C.
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Was he ever in the military? If not, why was he buried there?
Just don;t light any matches around his grave. Could be quite the explosion!
“...GOP probably isn’t worth fighting over...”
Don’t be a Useful Idiot of the Left. Or as I refer to such skeptics: The Lefts Crash Test Dummies.
The RINO’s do not represent the entire GOP. I won’t throw the baby out with the bath water.
The Traitor of the Senate.
I see.
I do not believe the GOP is so inept as to be oblivious to the Communist goal. Many of them simply want the power and influence which comes with a high political position, and are simply men of lesser character and integrity. Their own ambition overrides their obligation to uphold the Constitution and protect the rights of their constituents.
” Was he ever in the military? If not, why was he buried there? “
Those in power no longer feel the need for authority.
We had Rooskie reports after Yeltsin opened their archives. Reliable?
This article says now, since Sandwich Man is dead, the FBI has opened Kennedy's file. It corroborates the KGB files.
This makes all of them reliable.
Tunney is a traitor, too.
yitbos
Turns out he was in the military. I had no idea.
Stuff him in the oil leak
Stuff him in the oil leak
Teddy Kennedy, Murderer, Communist Spy, Democrat.
“At least he’s still sober.”
But, I heard that they didn’t need to embalm his body...it was already pickled...
Dig the SOB up, try and convict of treason and trample the body into dust.
Sad thing is that you could tell all of the rat voters in MA this info, and that he manslaughtered that poor intern, and they would still vote for him. I guess you can’t fix stupid.
No wonder the Communist Left despised the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities. It was routing out Communist sympathizers working on behalf of the KGB to seditiously overthrow the American way of life.
And his putrid relative, Joe, is dealing with Chavez in Venezuela, no doubt plotting to undermine America and freedom again.
Treason from day one.
What does that have to do with Kennedy having Tunney speak to Soviet agents?
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