The Soviets thought the nuclear disarmament movements in Europe would really work.
If it wasn't for Thatcher and Helmut Kohl, they might have been right.
Posted on 04/09/2018 7:58:33 PM PDT by Twotone
There is nothing like historical context to help evaluate and better understand current events. So, in regard to the mainstream media’s breathless, non-stop coverage of the self-levitating Trump-Russia collusion theory, consider this bit of trivia:
In 1991, when Russian President Boris Yeltsin opened the archives of the Soviet Central Committee, Western researchers quickly descended on Moscow to plow through the treasure trove of previously classified official documents.
Among those researchers was Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times and the BBC who found a May 14, 1983 letter from KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov to Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov. Bearing the highest security classification, it summarized a confidential offer by Senator Ted Kennedy to the Soviet leadership to help stop President Ronald Reagan’s aggressive, anti-Soviet defense policies.
The letter was written as the debate was heating up over Reagan’s proposed deployment of intermediate range missiles to counter the Soviets’ medium range weapons in Eastern Europe.
Sebastian reported his find in an article titled “Teddy, the KGB and the top secret file” which appeared in the February 2, 1992, London Times.
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The Soviets were good at recognizing useful idiots of all ages.
The Soviets thought the nuclear disarmament movements in Europe would really work.
If it wasn't for Thatcher and Helmut Kohl, they might have been right.
Paul Robeson was another one.
You could write a long multi-volume book set about all the useful idiots. My first direct experience with useful idiots was when I was a platoon sergeant baby sitting a bunch of ‘conscientious objectors’ after desert shield/storm.
I’d have been sorely pressed not to beat the crap out of them.
Ted’s approach to the KGB was not a scandal at the time. Scandal what is felt by the population or the group that contains or is affected by the scandalizer. There was no knowledge of Ted’s misdeed therefore there was no scandal. There was treason but no scandal because no one knew about it.
In Massachusetts, he was called “Fat Boy”.
Should have called him “Traitor Boy”....
http://mltranslations.org/Miscellaneous/DuBoisJVS.htm
By W.E.B. DuBois
“Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrained from holding his rightful place with dignity. He was the son of a serf but stood calmly before the great without hesitation or nerves. But also - and this was the highest proof of his greatness - he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate...”
That’s what they wanted. It would have fit the narrative that amnesty international and the socialist workers party already had of us unenlightened cruel heartless military Luddites who would oppress and criminalize these “prisoners of conscience”. We already had countless commie hippie lawyers just waiting for something bad to happen to their latest useful idiots.
so that’s why there was a raid today
Go to www.keywiki.org and search under “Edward Kennedy”.
You’ll find an FBI report on members of Congress targeted for influencing or penetration by the KGB and possibly GRU.
Ted’s right up there on the list.
Maybe they “got” to him which would explain the 1983 act of treason proposed by Kennedy.
And I suspect that there is more to all of this.
Of course you’re right, but I had to say it. They deliberately provoke and then scream foul when you react. Still, they deserve an a** kicking.
One small but important detail often left out of this story is that Secy Gen. of the CPSU, Yuri Andropov, WAS AT ONE TIME THE HEAD OF THE KGB (believe it was in the late 60’s or early 70’s. He was ruthless as any KGB leader ever was.
Teddy knew who he was playing with but “NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON” except us.
#23. Re Paul Robeson. Besides being identified as a covert member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) by several ex-Party members including high ranking Manning Johnson, he was eventually outted after his death as a Party member in CP newspapers and “The Young Communist League” paper “Dynamics”.
Robeson, along with another CPUSA member/Australian Communist and KGB asset (Haynes & Klehr writings), Harry Bridges, were the people who asked Frank Marshall Davis to go from Chicago to Hawaii to write communist propaganda for their front newspaper the “Honolulu Record”.
See: “Labor History”, Summer 1994, Volume 35, Number 3, “Communists and the CIO: From the Soviet Archives”, Harvey Klehr and John E. Haynes.
See Paul Kengor’s book, “The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor” , Threshold Editions/Mercury Ink, 2012.
Ain’t documentation great, esp. from the Soviet Archives?
You can show it to your stupid liberal friends who don’t believe it, and then slap them over the head a couple hundred times to drive home the point.
#8. Slight correction to your comment about Kennedy, “More truth about the disgusting “whale of the Senate”.
Make that “Sperm Whale of the Senate”, the sailor “Semen of Hyannusport”.
I got a Navy Marine Corps Achievement Medal for holding my temper and leading a spirited one sided debate against these fools. All they could do is whine and throw out “facts” that were planted in their heads by college professors and other professional brain washing fellow travelers. Not much depth to this bunch.
They issued a stamp to honor her. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Harbor_Airlines_Flight_1808
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Harbor_Airlines_Flight_1808#/media/File%3A1985_CPA_5685.jpg
John Kerry is one of many....
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