Ted Kennedy's KGB Correspondence (Aiding the enemy as the enemy)

The American Spectator ^ | June 22, 2010 | Kevin Mooney

[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.

[April Lexington]

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.

Good point. I think this is why GOP women are surging in the polls and primaries right now. The Good ol Boys have gone adrift...

[Fedora]

Thanks for the ping, much appreciated.

[This Just In]

Sadly, some of these women possess more spine than the men.

[piasa]

1978 : (TED KENNEDY & THE ACLU & THE FISA) 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. ... 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.
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via 41, posted on FR 10/23/2006 3:00:11 PM PDT by grandpa jones

[piasa]

SEPTEMBER 1978 : (KAZAKHSTAN, USSR : TED KENNEDY GIVES KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT WORLD HEALTH ORG MEETING; TUNNEY TRIES TO INTRODUCE TED KENNEDY TO A SOVIET POLITBURO AIDE NATASHA-- See HONEYTRAP) Tunney also seems to have been a setter of honey traps. In my note on one of the sources mentioned above, Richard E. Burke's The Senator: My Ten Years With Senator Ted Kennedy, I jotted down this note from pages 138-139 on Tunney's attempt to introduce Kennedy to a Politburo aide named Natasha:

138-139: Kennedy invited to give keynote address at September 1978 World Health Organization meeting in Soviet Socialist Republic of Kazakhstan, decides to meet with Refuseniks on trip, asks advice from Tunney due to his business contacts in USSR and association with Karr in building hotel for 1980 Olympics, Karr is linked to Politburo functionary named “Andrei” with aide Natasha whom Tunney had spent time on Karr’s yacht, Tunney tells Kennedy Natasha might be point of contact with Brezhnev regarding Refuseniks----------"The Senator: My Ten Years With Senator Ted Kennedy," BY Richard E. Burke, PP 138-139

42 posted on 10/23/2006 3:00:35 PM PDT by Fedora | To 31

[piasa]

* Greg Craig : ...Greg Craig, recently lawyer for Castro — I mean Elian’s father — was highly involved in the anti-Contra legislation and support for the Sandinistas as Ted Kennedy’s senior for[e]ign policy aide. Craig is part of the Kerry campaign today and we do not need him in the State Department, perhaps even as Secretary of State.
4 posted on 09/02/2004 7:46:05 AM PDT by tallhappy

[Cindy]

ON THE INTERNET:

foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/chappaquiddick.htm

foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/kennedy.htm

[guitarplayer1953]

I thought you had to be in the armed forces to be buried there? Teddy never was in the military.