Kennedy’s Comrade: Hunting a KGB Mole in the Democratic Party

Original FReeper research | 10/23/2006 | Fedora

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

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[oblomov]

Interesting - Tunney was the inspiration for Robert Redford's character in the film, The Candidate.

[grandpa jones]

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L-R: Mieke and John Tunney, Teddy and Joan Kennedy

[marron]

Thats got to be like hunting for a needle in a stack of needles.

[Chena]

Hi Fedora, I'm going to bookmark this for a fascinating read later today. In the meantime, BTTT! :)

[T'wit]

An astonishing piece of work! I am not at all surprised at the conclusions, though.

[Fedora]

I think Clinton was active with the British antiwar movement in the 1968/1969 timeframe, IIRC. There were quite a few antiwar people who made trips to Moscow (often entering via Scandinavia) during this period.

[ElkGroveDan]

Former U.S. Senator John V. Tunney with his former wife, Mieke, and Senator Ted Kennedy with his former wife, Joan.

[ElkGroveDan]

It's the kind of thing that the MSM would skewer you over as a means to denigrate the entire piece.

[Ditto]

Treason runs rampant in the Democratic Party.

Treason is an old tradition of the Democrats that dates all the way back to the Civil War. It's in their blood.

[1066AD]

Tunney fell into a classic KGB "honey trap" ?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Democrat = CPUSA.

It's been true at least since the days of Hiss, White, and Wallace. Disgusting.

[Fedora]

I don't really understand what would have led Teddy Kennedy to become a Communist patsy, other than the fact that he seems to be both evil and stupid. Unlike many of those other people, the Kennedy family does not seem to have had a Communist background. Mobsters, yes, but not Communists that I have heard of. I would have suspected Jimmy Carter before Teddy Kennedy.

I'm still trying to figure that out as well. I think it's probably rooted in Robert Kennedy's shift towards the antiwar movement in the mid-60s. This occurred on several fronts. Vietnam was the most public expression of it, but there was also his relationship to Cesar Chavez, and his involvement with the left wing of the anti-Castro movement, which predated the Bay of Pigs. The Kennedys supported a left-wing faction of the anti-Castro exile community against a more conservative faction which was closer to Nixon and to Allen Dulles' faction of the CIA. I think the Kennedys' rivalry with Nixon and LBJ had a lot to do with it. Robert was planning to run against LBJ in '68, and Ted was a candidate to run against Nixon in '72 and remained involved in the campaign even after he dropped out following Chappaquidick, so I think it was partly a case of the Kennedys opportunistically aligning with Nixon's enemies, domestic and foreign. This became easier to do after Nixon initiated detente and Ted could legally travel to Russia; I think Ted was taking advantage of that opportunity.

[Fedora]

I don't have a ping list for this because this is the only thing I've posted on this subject, but I'll make a note to ping you if I post on it agian in the future. Thanks for reading!

[Eva]

As I read your excellent work, I was thinking of the more recent spy/leaker (what ever) in the Democrat party, Jane Harmon. Apparently she is connected to AIPAC and the case of the US guy who leaked to the Israelis.

[AmeriBrit]

All I have is my memory to go on and recollection of what I read in the local Oxford newspaper at the time, and that was that when he was expelled and ordered to leave the country he was whisked off to Moscow at the invitation and expense of the KGB.

[Fedora]

It's the kind of thing that the MSM would skewer you over as a means to denigrate the entire piece.

Yes; but they'll do that anyway :-)

[Jack Black]

Ann Coulter's excellent book "Treason" is a great place to start in on study of Democrat support for the USSR in the Cold War. "Liberal Treachery" is her phrase, and it's a good one.

[Cicero]

Thank you for the response. Your work is extremely interesting.

[Jack Black]

Treason is an old tradition of the Democrats that dates all the way back to the Civil War. It's in their blood.

Huh? Civil War period?