Posted on 03/10/2015 2:00:17 PM PDT by gr8eman
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.”
Kennedy’s message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. “The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations,” the memorandum stated. “These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign.”
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Another of the wonderful things the Kennedys did for us.
NEVER.... EVER ... EVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT.
THEY ARE BOLSHEVIKS. ALL OF THEM.
Kennedy’s name will stink for 1000 years.
How was Andropov going to help the Democrats win the 1984 Presidential race? I guess Kennedy thought Andropov could stir up some kind of conflict, and Reagan would get blamed for it. He died 8 months after this, so we may never know what Kennedy was trying to cook up. I can tell you one thing for sure. Walter Mondale was never going to beat Ronald Reagan in 1984. There is no liberal revisionist of history that could make that race close.
The media isn't really biased.
It's much, much worse than that.
So, does that make TK a traitor, as the Senate GOP has been branded?
Ted Kennedy’s KGB Correspondence
What the FBI missed -- and it deserves greater media attention, given how it was designed to undermine two presidencies.
....The KGB files Mitrokhin retrieved indicate that Kennedy fixed the blame for heightened international tensions on the Carter White House, not on the Kremlin. It is important to note that Kennedy was challenging incumbent Carter for the Democratic nomination for president at that time.
Tunney told his KGB counterparts that Kennedy was impressed by the foreign policy statements made by General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Kennedy saw in Brezhnev a leader who was firmly committed to the policy of "détente," the report said.
Moreover, Kennedy also blamed the Carter Administration for assuming an overly belligerent posture toward the Soviet Union after the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, according to the papers.
"The atmosphere of tension and hostility towards the whole Soviet people was being fuelled by Carter," Kennedy argued, as well as by some key advisors, the Pentagon and the U.S. military industrial complex, Mitrokhin wrote.
KENNEDY ALSO OFFERED TO WORK in close concert with high level Soviet officials to sabotage President Ronald Reagan's re-election efforts and to orchestrate favorable American press coverage for Andropov and Soviet military officials, according to the 1983 KGB document.
......Kennedy offered to have "representatives of the largest television companies in the U.S. contact Y.V. Andropov for an invitation to Moscow for the interview," KGB head Viktor Chebrikov explained in a letter to the general secretary dated May 14, 1983, the file shows. The idea here would be for the Soviet leader to make an end run around Reagan and make a direct appeal to the American people
......Kennedy suggested that Walter Cronkite, Barbara Walters and Elton Raul, the president of the board of directors for ABC, be considered for the interviews with Andropov in Moscow. He also asked the KGB to consider having "lower level Soviet officials, particularly the military" take part in television interviews inside the U.S. where they could convey peaceful intentions .....read more...
http://spectator.org/articles/39381/ted-kennedys-kgb-correspondence
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And the Democrats have the rotten nerve to insinuate that the Republicns who sent the open letter to Iran with information about how our Constitution works are "traitors????"
Puh-lease!!!!
Really? Name one.
Even back in 2009 no one really gave two-thirds of a rat's ass when that old SOB kicked the bucket.
In an American Spectator article entitled STROBE TALBOT: RUSSIA'S MAN IN WASHINGTON dated April, 1998, it reads:
...A mistaken sense of priorities also characterizes Talbott's handling of Russia's transfer of missile technology to Iran, an issue he has tried to sweep under the rug for more than a year. Because of U.S. inaction, the CIA now believes the Iranians will be able to field an entire arsenal of long-range missiles equipped with chemical, biological, and possibly nuclear warheads within 12 to 18 months. If they succeed, those missiles will have Strobe Talbott's name written all over them.
.....A stunning conflict of interest
"Talbott didn't want anything to interfere with his agenda of aid to Russia,"say congressional aides familiar with his role in quashing the information and lobbying to get Oehler fired. "Raising the issue of Russian missile transfers to Iran was sure to anger the Russians - something Talbott wanted to avoid at all costs." A top aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put it more politely: "Israel is on the receiving end of these missiles, whereas Strobe Talbott views this issue in the broader context of U.S.-Russian relations." By mid-summer, however, with the Russian transfers accelerating, not slowing, Lott teamed up with Senator Joseph Lieberman to introduce legislation that would impose sanctions on the Russian firms engaged in the transfers and cut off U.S. aid to Talbott's pet Russian projects, including the high profile flights of American astronauts on board the Mir space station. To quell the storm, Talbott finally agreed to hand the issue over to retired Ambassador Frank Wisner, who in July was asked to be the U.S. delegate to a joint committee with the Russians to investigate the allegations of missile transfers to Iran. His Russian counterpart was none other than Yuri Koptev, the head of the Russian Space Agency - the very man the Israelis claimed was behind some of the Russian missile deals with Iran.
But Wisner also had a conflict of interest that should have been obvious to Talbott and to the administration: he had direct business interests in Russia through the American International Group, the gigantic insurance underwriter that had just launched the largest private investment fund in the former Soviet Union. AIG announced Wisner's appointment as Director and Vice Chairman on September 17, 1997, only two months after he was put in charge of negotiating with the Russians over their missiles sales to Iran. And AIG had a special reason for wanting to keep the missile issue out of the public eye: their $300 million "Millennium Fund," launched one year earlier to back Russian infrastructure and industrial projects, was being supported by another U.S. government program championed by Strobe Talbott, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. As part of Talbott's overall Russian aid package, OPIC was providing U.S. government guarantees to AIG and others to protect Russian investments..Under Talbott's watchful eye, OPIEC and the Exminbank and extended a whopping $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to support U.S. exporters and investments in the former Soviet Union.......read entire article....
http://www.iran.org/tib/krt/strobe.htm
SO WHO ARE THE TRAITORS?????
THE KENNEDYS’ TREASONOUS HISTORY
Joseph P Kennedy Sr., the patriarch of the Kennedy clan, was thrown out from England as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St James due to his public expressions of sympathy for Adolf Hitler. He became very rich on the illegal traffic of alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition. When FDR was criticized for putting him to the head of the Stock Exchange Commission, FDR responded by saying that “it takes a crook to catch a crook.”
Senator Ted Kennedy offered his services to the KGB in the middle of the cold war during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.
John F Kennedy, another Hitler’s admirer, betrayed the Cuban freedom fighters during the Bay of Pigs invasion. Later he betrayed the United States during the October Missile Crisis when, disregarding the Monroe Doctrine, Kennedy approved and pledged to protect, the establishment in Cuba of a Soviet permanent base, an extra-hemispheric enemy power, at 90 miles from Florida.
Guiliani’s remark about President Over Reach not loving America has stuck. Democrats have panicked.
Sen. John Tunney (D-Cal) was the son of famed boxer Jack or Gene Tunney, but he seemed to have been hit in the head more than his father, and suffered more brain damage. I’ve never seen such a dumbass in the Senate as Tunney, though there was and is some really stiff competition among the Democrats (Boxer, for one).
He was the natural dupe for Kennedy to use in contacting the Soviets.
Kennedy was guilty of treason, or at least a violation of the Logan Act, in spirit, if not in law.
He, along with Kerry, Dodd, Cranston and Harkin, escaped prosecution for aiding the enemy because no one wanted to look at the evidence of such conduct.
The Dems have been covering up their communist-sympathizing congressmen since the 1940’s, and even appointing some of them to key congressional chairmenships/subcommittee chairmenships (Abzug, Conyers, Crockett Jr, Rangel, Cranston, Kennedy, etc).
Among the names mentioned in this Los Angeles Times article, several stand out for known Soviet intelligence associations, and one in particular emerges as a most likely suspect for the Carter campaign’s KGB mole. . .That individual is a known KGB asset mentioned in the Los Angeles Times article: California Senator John Tunney.
Trying to cook up a deal with commies to influence a US presidential election with traitorous media on board, vs. sending an open letter from the Senate to a totalitarian explaining our constitutional system. Tough one...NOT!
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Ted Kennedy should be ripped from Arlington.
And Hillary and Biden are upset that U.S. Senators wrote an open letter to the Iranian terrorist leaders.
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