Posted on 06/11/2015 12:14:50 PM PDT by jazusamo
Ten U.S. Senators and three representatives were the Soviet Union’s favorite members of Congress when the Communist nation was our worst enemy, according to a previously classified Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report obtained by Judicial Watch.
The federal lawmakers had repeated contact with Communist diplomats who “cultivated” relationships with them during the Cold War, the records show. JW obtained the information by using the Mandatory Declassification Review process and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The records are from an FBI operation that monitored Soviet officials and establishments in Washington, D.C. and determine that there is a “continuing interest by representatives of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) to maintain contacts with and cultivate members or staff personnel of the U.S. Congress.”
Contact between members of Congress, their staff and representatives of the Soviet Union are documented between 1964 and 1972. A compilation of the contacts from January 1, 1967 to July 28, 1970 reveals that Communist diplomats had a total of 180 contacts with U.S. Senators, 94 with members of the House and 832 with their congressional staff. The records show 1967 to be the most active year with 77 Communist interactions with U.S. Senators, 55 with representatives and 265 with staff employees.
Not surprisingly, Ted Kennedy one of the 10 senators that appears on the Communist list. A few years ago JW sued the FBI for once-secret documents that reveal the late Massachusetts senator sought meetings with Communists and others with left-wing views during a tour of several Latin American countries. Kennedy also made arrangements to rent a brothel for an entire night, according to the records which say the veteran lawmaker insisted on interviewing “the angry young men” of each country and meeting with a communist in Bogota that had been mentioned in U.S. investigations of Soviet spy rings.
Besides being tight with Communists, Kennedy was also famous for driving his car into a pond in Chappaquiddick, east of Martha’s Vineyard after a night of partying. The senator escaped the accident unscathed while his mistress, 28-year-old Democratic campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned in the car. Kennedy had an expired license and had been drinking at the party yet he only got a slap on the hand, a two-month suspended jail sentence. The tragedy at Chappaquiddick became known as the most brilliant cover-up ever achieved in a nation where investigative procedures are well developed. Two decades after the horrific event more light was shed on the cover-up when the foreman of the grand jury that investigated the accident confessed that the panel was pressured by a judge and a prosecutor not to pursue the case. The foreman said the jury was manipulated and blocked from doing its job.
Here are the others that appear on the FBI list of Communist favorites during the Cold War: South Dakota Senator George McGovern, Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale, Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy, Maine Senator Edmund Muskie, Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield, Montana Senator Mike Mansfield, Arkansas Senator J.W. Fullbright, Louisiana Senator Allen Ellender and Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke. House members include James Fulton of Pennsylvania, Robert Leggett of California and Donald Riegle of Michigan.
I honestly don’t know if commies were involved in any way in Teddies cover-up. I’ve never read anything on that possibility but wouldn’t be surprised.
It’d be interesting to know if the judge or prosecutor that pressured the Grand Jury had any commie ties or any of their peers.
People like Walter Mondale and George McGovern were American patriots, badly confused though they were. If they are on the Russian go-to list, it is because they were mainstream left liberals who would go the extra mile to seek common ground. That makes them naive and a soft touch. A "tool" is a couple of steps further down the slippery slope. A tool knows what he is doing.
I remember the old days - when there were real newspapers. One of them might have picked up on this...
Won't happen today because their dem handlers won't give them this one...
Will reply about this
Doc tomorrow. Trying to find original
Copy which I found at archives about 6 years ago in classified white house erhlichman Huston files. A full copy of it should be at www.keywiki dot org. Search terms kgb, Kennedy, McGovern,
Those are some of the people I had in mind.
Due to computer problems I have not been able to properly give you the information on where to find the FULL TEXT of the FBI letter concerning KGB attempts to contact members of Congress and/or their staff.
You can find a full copy at www.keywiki.org, Search term “Edward Kennedy”. It is there in its own separate section.
You must read this letter carefully because it does not say that the Soviets were recruiting these people, only that they were trying to or made contact with some/all of them (for various reasons).
I know some of the people on that list and they are/were staunch anti-communists while others were hardcore leftists or very pliable dupes such as Sen. Hatfield.
Ted Kennedy, as we have learned, and are still learning about, had more significant contacts with the Soviets/KGB than was previously known, but what many people don’t know is that he/KGB were using the dumbest Senator in history, Tunney (D-CA) as an intermediary.
There is a possibility that Tunney was essentially bribed or rewarded for his work with business in the Soviet Union.
This needs to be further explored because of its potential significance to Soviet espionage, propaganda, and disinformation efforts in the U.S.
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