[Fedora]

I was not planning on posting this yet, but in light of Paul Kengor's book Crusader receiving publicity last week, I thought I should round up what I had. Some related threads at:

KGB Letter Outlines Sen. Kennedy's Overtures to Soviets, Prof Says

The Kennedy KGB letter

Profiles in Duplicity

Kennedy Outed as Traitor; MSM will ignore per NYT "guiding hand."

[lowbridge]

Hunting a KGB Mole in the Democratic Party

Its like shooting fish in a barrel.

[VOA]

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[Dog]

Excellent work...

[Alkhin]

*waves*

Good to see you posting on here, although I have been pretty eratic in reading FR for some time, so if Ive missed any other articles, Im sorry!

Wishing you well and bookmarking to read at a more sane hour!

[Alkhin]

The agent, who is not identified by name in the reports noted by Mitrokhin, had a wide circle of influential contacts in the Democratic Party: among them Governor Jerry Brown of California, Senator Alan Cranston, Senator Eugene McCarthy, Senator Edward Kennedy, Senator Abraham Ribicoff, Senator J. William Fulbright and Congressman John Conyers, Jr. During the 1976 Presidential campaign the agent was able to provide inside information from within the Carter camp and a profile of Carter himself, which were particularly highly valued by the Centre since it had so few high-level American sources.

Am only just now following what has been written and discussed here - but when news came out of Anna Politkovskaya's assassignation and I read subsequent articles about current political movements in Russia, my mind went back to what I remember being discussed on FR about Clinton's visit as well. Would be interested to go back and found out if the people named in the quote had any workings/dealings with WJC's political career leading up to and throughout WJC's bid for presidency. Until his visit to the USSR is fully explained, he will always have the stink of treason.

[Iris7]

Bill, you may find my #179 interesting.

A more detailed timeline -

John Winant, old time Red, replaced Old Joe on October 22, 1940 as Ambassador to Great Britain.

http://www.usembassy.org.uk/rcambex.html

It is commonly held that Joe Kennedy Sr. was replaced by Roosevelt because Old Joe was very publicly saying that Britain was beyond hope and that America should stay out of the European war.

The Moscow Line from the Ribbentrop - Molotov military alliance pact until the June 1941 invasion or the Soviet Union by Hitler was pro-Hitler. The United States was to kept out by all Communist means of the "European War".

So far Old Joe Kennedy meets the "quacks like a duck" test.

Joe Jr. and JFK joined the military, certainly at Old Joe's urging, in late 1941. (Unfortunately I cannot find the exact date.) JFK could not enlist because of his back injury and other health problems and Old Joe had to pull strings to get John a health waiver. This probably took a month or two. So JFK had to be trying to enlist in September or October of 1941 at the latest, that is, a matter only of weeks after the changed Communist Party Line followed Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. The Moscow Line shifted from an isolationist to an all out pro-war position in the USA overnight.

So, we have "Quacks like a duck" and now we have "Walks like a duck". So therefore we are seeing a duck, right? Certainly enough evidence to persuade an intelligence analyst something was fishy.

[Former Proud Canadian]

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[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Tunney was one of the dumbests member of the Senate I ever saw. He would be the perfect dupe.

Cranston - only a full congressional investigation and hearings will ever uncover his role of associations with the Communist Party, his hiring of CP members and spies (Karr), his possible role in the murder of anti-communist labor leader Carlos Tresca, and his role in the Office of War Information during WW2. Also his connections to the Institute for Pacific Relations, a heavily CPUSA and possibly Soviet-infiltrated and influenced propaganda operation.
Cranston's list of Hollywood Red friends would shock you, including the late John Randolph who headed the KGB front, the National Council for Soviet-American Friendship, among other fronts.
Tom Hayden - Watergate derailed the Senate investigation/hearings scheduled on Hayden and Fonda as No. Vietnamese agents of influence.
There is an FBI document from 1970 which listed Sen. Kennedy and his office as one of the prime targets of Soviet KGB penetration/influence operations. This document will be written about within the next week or so.

Communist influence in Congress has only had the tip of the iceberg of exposure. John Conyers is now the leading holding of communist fronts, affiliations, and KGB-contacts of all the members of congress since Abzug and Dellums and Crockett. Image what will happen if he becomes chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

[sageb1]

Well done! Ironically, I missed this thread yesterday and ran across it (on Google, no less), while researching the Kennedys' Angola/oil/communist support connection. Please ping me with anything else you find.

Sage

[sageb1]

Various connections here that might interest you.

[T'wit]

Bumperoonies!

[185JHP]

We know more about I. F. Stone's "scoops" now...

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

TANKS for the thread...

[Liberty Valance]

Outstanding work Fedora. Fascinating.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

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[EternalHope]

Outstanding work.

If you put together a ping list for related threads, please put me on it.

[PghBaldy]

The Paul Kengopr book, "The Crusader: Ronald Reagan & the Fall of Communism," which mentioned Ted Kennedy working with Soviets to hamper Reagan's work, was discussed on The Grapevine tonight )Special Report w/Brit Hume) Brit said they spoke w/Kennedy, and he said the book was way off base, and he only worked with his Soviet contacts to help Reagan.

[Eva]

Here is the thread that I mentioned.

[VOA]

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[Calpernia]

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