Freeper Adam_Az picked this off on another thread concerning Kerry. I'm posting it here because I wonder if this Tom Blanton is the executive director of the National Security Archive, where Sandy Berger liked to go shoplifting, and if perhaps Blanton is associated with Kerry in other ways.
1985 : (CONGRESSMEN KERRY & HARKIN TRAVEL TO NICARAGUA) To: LibWhacker HOLY CRAP!!!!! IT IS REAL!!!!!! It's in a Boston Globe article!!!
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml
Indymedia is PROUD OF IT!!!!!!!
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/01/279420.shtml
Kerry's audacity cost him. Within weeks of taking office in 1985, he was off to Nicaragua, accompanied by reporters on a 36-hour, self-appointed fact-finding mission with another freshman, Democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa.
Congressional Democrats had accused the White House of exaggerating the communist threat posed by the Sandinista regime. So the two senators were publicly castigated when -- just days after meeting with Daniel Ortega and other leaders of the regime -- the Sandinistas climbed aboard a plane to Moscow to cement their Soviet ties.
Secretary of State George Shultz declared that Kerry and Harkin had been "used" by the Nicaraguans, and he ridiculed them for their naivete in "dealing with the communists."
Kerry was called "silly" in the Boston press.
...`In early 1986, people like North were deathly afraid of what Kerry was after," says Tom Blanton, the executive director of the National Security Archive, a research organization in Washington. "There was this pervasive sense of the potential of turning over too many rocks. Worms and insects kept crawling out."
You can read the full story from the link below. Also you can go to:
http://www.democracynow.org
for a full profile of hopefully our next President.--- "John Kerry: Hero of Iran-Contra Investigation : John Kerry investigates Reagan's genocidal policies in Central America and nails Oliver North. ," Author: The Sane Left, John Kerry meets with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega in midst of Reagan War , Excerpts of Boston Globe profile on Mass. Senator John Kerry as featured on Democracy Now:
319 posted on 02/11/2004 8:23:51 PM PST by adam_az
47 posted on 08/09/2004 10:06:55 PM CDT by piasa
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To: piasa; Shermy; Liz; backhoe
Nice find. The National Security Archive is also linked to Peter Kornbluh, Kerry's associate from the Institute for Policy Studies. They've edited a number of declassified documents related to US Latin American policy re: Cuban Missile Crisis, Pinochet, Sandinistas, etc. See for instance:
Chile Documentation Project: Peter Kornbluh, Director
It was also Kornbluh who arranged Kerry's trip to meet Ortega in 1984. IMO the upshot of this is, if Berger was in contact with these people, any documents he had could've been transmitted straight to Fidel Castro.
52 posted on 08/10/2004 2:00:26 AM CDT by Fedora
National Security Archive to Archivist of the United States John W. Carlin, January 15, 1999, 1 p.
Archivist of the United States John W. Carlin to National Security Archive, January 21, 1999, 1 p.
Attorneys for National Security Archive to National Archives and Records Administration and Department of State, January 25, 2001, 2 pp. [Encloses letter from State Department Spokesman James P. Rubin to Archivist of the United States John W. Carlin, 2 pp.]