Book: Carter, Democrats Asked Soviets to Stop Reagan, Sway U.S. Elections.

www.newsmax.com ^ | Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2002 | Carl Limbacher

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Remember the old conservative charge that many of the Democrats here in America were playing footsie with the Soviets? Some Republicans even said the Russians viewed the Democrats as their favorite party.

Now bombshell revelations prove these accusations beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Peter Schweizer, a Hoover Institution research fellow, has just written a new book, "Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism."

This book may well force historians to revise the history of the Cold War.

Schweizer, after scouring once-classified KGB, East German Stasi and Soviet Communist Party files, discovered incontrovertible evidence that the Soviets not only played footsie with high-ranking Democrats, they also worked behind the scenes to influence American elections.

In "Reagan's War," Schweizer shows how the Democrats worked with Moscow to try to undermine Reagan before and after he became president.

Jimmy Carter's Dirty Tricks

Soviet diplomatic accounts and material from the archives show that in January 1984, former President Jimmy Carter dropped by Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin's residence for a private meeting.

Carter expressed his concern about and opposition to Reagan's defense buildup. He boldly told Dobrynin that Moscow would be better off with someone else in the White House. If Reagan won, he warned, "There would not be a single agreement on arms control, especially on nuclear arms, as long as Reagan remained in power."

Using the Russians to influence the presidential election was nothing new for Carter.

Schweizer reveals Russian documents that show that in the waning days of the 1980 campaign, the Carter White House dispatched businessman Armand Hammer to the Soviet Embassy.

Hammer was a longtime Soviet-phile, and he explained to the Soviet ambassador that Carter was "clearly alarmed" at the prospect of losing to Reagan.

Hammer pleaded with the Russians for help. He asked if the Kremlin could expand Jewish emigration to bolster Carter's standing in the polls.

'Carter Won't Forget That Service'

"Carter won't forget that service if he is elected," Hammer told Dobrynin.

Carter was not the only Democrat to make clear to the Russians where their loyalty lay. As the election neared in 1984, Dobrynin recalls meetings with Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill.

O'Neill told Dobrynin that no effort should be spared to prevent "that demagogue Reagan" from being re-elected.

Soviet documents report that O'Neill told Dobrynin: "If that happens, Reagan will give vent to his primitive instincts and give us a lot of trouble, probably, put us on the verge of a major armed conflict. He is a dangerous man."

[bimbo]

No the story will not show up on the Peter/Dan/Tom circuit. OTOH, this is not news. This story has been floating around for at least a year or so.

In that case, it is important for us to keep the story alive until Peter/Dan/Tom acknowledge it.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks. All too true.

[MeekOneGOP]

Book: Carter, Democrats Asked Soviets
to Stop Reagan, Sway U.S. Elections

Excerpt:

"Carter won't forget that service if he is elected," Hammer told Dobrynin.

Carter was not the only Democrat to make clear to the Russians where their loyalty lay. As the election neared in 1984, Dobrynin recalls meetings with Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill.

O'Neill told Dobrynin that no effort should be spared to prevent "that demagogue Reagan" from being re-elected.

Soviet documents report that O'Neill told Dobrynin: "If that happens, Reagan will give vent to his primitive instincts and give us a lot of trouble, probably, put us on the verge of a major armed conflict. He is a dangerous man."

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[Tailgunner Joe]

bttt

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks ...

[bimbo]

Now I hear he's running for Sainthood.

That might be tough since he seems to have abandoned the So. Baptists and Christianity.

[Let's Roll]

I thought he was merely incompetent - now we learn that it was deliberate. When will justice be done in this country?

[gaspar]

The Carter Center survival was guaranteed by the Pakistani head of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (Bank of Crooks and Criminals). Even after indictments were issued, and it was known that BCCI facilitated money laundering and drug trafficking, Jimmy Carter continued to use the BCCI plane in his jaunts around Africa. When asked by a State Department official in Khartoum, Sudan, why he was allowing himself to be used, Carter told the man to shut up and mind his own business. Carter, like Clinton, was a man greedy for power and the trappings of power. No one in their right mind would fund a Carter Center -- except the Muslims, who owned Carter.

[MeekOneGOP]

The U.S. hostages in Iran were held for 444 days under the Jimmy Carter administration and released the DAY that Ronald Reagan took office for his first term in 1981.

[gaspar]

Al Gore has repaid Hammer by looking after Occidental Petroleum, Hammer's creation, and its present Chairman, Ray Irani. On Irani, check his sleepovers in the Clinton White House and donations to Democrats.

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[votelife]

This book should be required reading for all Freepers. I've read it and it's great. It gives you new appreciation for Reagan and new disdain for Carter.

[votelife]

I used to like Carter too (he did call Clinton's last days "a disgrace") but he has done so many things to undermine the US, his country, that I feel free in calling his activities shockingly treasonous.

[votelife]

re your post 55, it probably WAS worth it. Assuming you're not an Alan Keyes, Bush is awful type, RR helped usher in the Bush II era...

[rmlew]

Actually Carter lost the Jewish vote, barely beating Reagan. Anderson had about 15%.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The man is really sickening. I wonder what it is that draws southern governors to sell their souls ?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Wonder if he'd carry Georgia today ?

[votelife]

I doubt Carter is more popular than Bush in GA

[JusPasenThru]

Oh Lord, forgive me of my past sins! I voted for Jimmy Carter not once but twice, believing that he was an honorable man and that perhaps Reagan would get us all nuked. Thank You for your provision, sending us Reagan who delivered us from the deadly Communism which mocks and despises You. Deliver us and our country from the like-minded to Carter, the mean-spirited, haters of liberty, lovers of perversion and evil. Amen

[Jorge]

I can't believe I voted for this piece of crap.