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Ted Kennedy Secretly Asked Soviets To Intervene In 1984 Elections
The Federalist ^ | March 10, 2015 | By Sean Davis

Posted on 01/04/2017 2:50:23 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

Earlier this week, 47 Republican senators published an open letter informing the leaders of Iran that any nuclear deal with the United States that failed to be approved by the Senate would likely expire in 2017, once President Barack Obama’s term ended.

The letter enraged progressives, who immediately began accusing the senators of treason for having the audacity to publish basic constitutional facts about how treaties work.

If these progressives want to know what actual treason looks like, they should consult liberal lion Ted Kennedy, who not only allegedly sent secret messages to the Soviets in the midst of the cold war, he also begged them to intervene in a U.S. presidential election in order to unseat President Ronald Reagan. That’s no exaggeration.

According to Soviet documents unearthed in the early 1990’s, Kennedy literally asked the Soviets, avowed enemies of the U.S., to intervene on behalf of the Democratic party in the 1984 elections. Kennedy’s communist communique was so secret that it was not discovered until 1991, eight years after Kennedy had initiated his Soviet gambit:

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. . .

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 . . .

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TOPICS: Editorial; Russia; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 114th; 1984election; bho44; coldwar; demssoviets; election; iraniannukes; kennedy; tedkennedy; ussr

1 posted on 01/04/2017 2:50:23 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

That was completely different.

Teddy was a big lefty, and he was trying to mess with a Conservative Republican. That makes what he did OK.


2 posted on 01/04/2017 2:54:08 PM PST by Steely Tom ([VOTE FRAUD] == [CIVIL WAR])
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To: Brad from Tennessee

He should have faced a court and the ultimate punishment for his treason


3 posted on 01/04/2017 2:57:48 PM PST by WashingtonFire
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To: Brad from Tennessee

“If these progressives want to know what actual treason looks like, they should consult liberal lion Ted Kennedy, who not only allegedly sent secret messages to the Soviets in the midst of the cold war, he also begged them to intervene in a U.S. presidential election in order to unseat President Ronald Reagan. That’s no exaggeration”

*****

Wow, I’d ask the ole drunk driver himself but he’s busy roasting in hell...


4 posted on 01/04/2017 2:58:46 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: Steely Tom

Son of a bootlegging, cigarette hijacking ####.


5 posted on 01/04/2017 2:59:26 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: WashingtonFire

Nope..instead he is burried in the Arlington National Cemetery?


6 posted on 01/04/2017 3:11:47 PM PST by Leep (Stronger without her!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Teddy and John F’n Kerry deserve to be roommates in hell.


7 posted on 01/04/2017 3:12:25 PM PST by RatRipper (The biggest threat to US national security is our government and those in it.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

A traitor buried at Arlington National Cemetery.


8 posted on 01/04/2017 3:20:35 PM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Maybe that’s why they’re mad at Russia now, they wouldn’t help them defeat Trump.


9 posted on 01/04/2017 3:27:28 PM PST by tiki
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Bttt.


10 posted on 01/04/2017 3:50:07 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The picture of treason.


11 posted on 01/04/2017 4:10:22 PM PST by SueRae (An election like no other..)
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To: RatRipper

Teddy and John F’n Kerry deserve to be roommates in hell.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Yep, right next to the room now reserved for McCain and his Carolina gal.


12 posted on 01/04/2017 4:42:48 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (God, Guns, and Trump will save the USA)
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To: Delta 21

A traitor buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
He’s probably not the only one either.


13 posted on 01/04/2017 4:46:05 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (God, Guns, and Trump will save the USA)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Trump needs to tweet this news so the press is forced to cover it.

The Teddy Kennedy Hades grease fire might just flare up a bit if he does.


14 posted on 01/04/2017 4:46:49 PM PST by Rebelbase (ABC/NBC/CBS/MSNBC/PBS/CNN/FOX are THE LEGACY MEDIA)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

OK, so let me get this straight. They wanted the Russians to interfere when Reagan was running, but they are claiming that Russia helped Trump this year? Maybe Putin just got the mail last year... Yes, that is it — delayed mail.


15 posted on 01/04/2017 5:03:44 PM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: Leep

Yep, the Swimmer’s remains are buried at Arlington, where Scotch fumes continue to rise from the grave to this day.


16 posted on 01/04/2017 5:13:04 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

When it came to saving the life of a not yet drowned woman, he ran away, leaving her to die in agony.

Ted Kennedy was a soul-rotten coward.


17 posted on 01/04/2017 5:14:26 PM PST by onedoug
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To: fortes fortuna juvat
Yep, right next to the room now reserved for McCain and his Carolina gal.

Can't argue with that

18 posted on 01/05/2017 6:09:14 AM PST by RatRipper (The biggest threat to US national security is our government and those in it.)
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