Posted on 08/26/2009 12:49:41 PM PDT by kcvl
Keep truth alive.
Character, Kennedy, you found out all you needed to know about that on July 18, 1969.
Ted Kennedy and the KGB
FP: Tell us about this document.
Kengor: It was a May 14, 1983 letter from the head of the KGB, Viktor Chebrikov, to the head of the USSR, the odious Yuri Andropov, with the highest level of classification. Chebrikov relayed to Andropov an offer from Senator Ted Kennedy, presented by Kennedy’s old friend and law-school buddy, John Tunney, a former Democratic senator from California, to reach out to the Soviet leadership at the height of a very hot time in the Cold War. According to Chebrikov, Kennedy was deeply troubled by the deteriorating relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, which he believed was bringing us perilously close to nuclear confrontation. Kennedy, according to Chebrikov, blamed this situation not on the Soviet leadership but on the American president-—Ronald Reagan. Not only was the USSR not to blame, but, said Chebrikov, Kennedy was, quite the contrary, “very impressed” with Andropov.
The thrust of the letter is that Reagan had to be stopped, meaning his alleged aggressive defense policies, which then ranged from the Pershing IIs to the MX to SDI, and even his re-election bid, needed to be stopped. It was Ronald Reagan who was the hindrance to peace. That view of Reagan is consistent with things that Kennedy said and wrote at the time, including articles in sources like Rolling Stone (March 1984) and in a speeches like his March 24, 1983 remarks on the Senate floor the day after Reagan’s SDI speech, which he lambasted as “misleading Red-Scare tactics and reckless Star Wars schemes.”
Even more interesting than Kennedy’s diagnosis was the prescription: According to Chebrikov, Kennedy suggested a number of PR moves to help the Soviets in terms of their public image with the American public. He reportedly believed that the Soviet problem was a communication problem, resulting from an inability to counter Reagan’s (not the USSR’s) “propaganda.” If only Americans could get through Reagan’s smokescreen and hear the Soviets’ peaceful intentions.
So, there was a plan, or at least a suggested plan, to hook up Andropov and other senior apparatchiks with the American media, where they could better present their message and make their case. Specifically, the names of Walter Cronkite and Barbara Walters are mentioned in the document. Also, Kennedy himself would travel to Moscow to meet with the dictator.
Time was of the essence, since Reagan, as the document privately acknowledged, was flying high en route to easy re-election in 1984.
FP: Did you have the document vetted?
Kengor: Of course. It comes from the Central Committee archives of the former USSR. Once Boris Yeltsin took over Russia in 1991, he immediately began opening the Soviet archives, which led to a rush on the archives by Western researchers. One of them, Tim Sebastian of the London Times and BBC, found the Kennedy document and reported it in the February 2, 1992 edition of the Times, in an article titled, “Teddy, the KGB and the top secret file.”
But this electrifying revelation stopped there; it went no further. Never made it across the Atlantic. Not a single American news organization, from what I can tell, picked up the story. Apparently, it just wasn’t interesting enough, nor newsworthy.
Western scholars, however, had more integrity, and responded: they went to the archives to procure their own copy. So, several copies have circulated for a decade and a half.
I got my copy when a reader of Frontpage Magazine, named Marko Suprun, whose father survived Stalin’s 1930s genocide in the Ukraine, alerted me to the document. He apparently had spent years trying to get the American media to take a look at the document, but, again, our journalists simply weren’t intrigued. He knew I was researching Reagan and the Cold War. He sent me a copy. I first authenticated it through Herb Romerstein, the Venona researcher and widely respected expert who knows more about the Communist Party and archival research beyond the former Iron Curtain than anyone. I also had a number of scholars read the original and the translation, including Harvard’s Richard Pipes.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30980
I was going to be more PC, but now I have to say Ted’s might be in a hotter than expected place for his after life retirement.
Kcvl,
We all don’t agree with Kennedy’s politics, that’s for sure.
But the man just died....is this really necessary?
Ted Kennedy: Liberal Lion of the Senate...and traitor. Reminds me of Scar from the Lion King story.
Only this is real life and Kennedy is lucky he didn’t hang! He should have.
If the man was collaborating with enemies of the state against a sitting President and our country while in office as a Senator, I think it is VERY IMPORTANT at this time as they try to proclaim him Saint Teddy for dying.
I was all respectful up until I saw several sources about this today and I can’t be respectful to all this treason that had gone on.
I feel for the family, but I have NO respect for Ted now.
Even more necessary than normal. The media is going to try and deify him over the next two weeks. The truth must come out!
For those of us that do not revere the dead, the truth about a man such as Kennedy is welcome. Do you really think that there is some kind of perverted honor due this character?
Results 1 - 10 of about 392,000,000 for ted kennedy worked for kgb to undermine reagan
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=ted+kennedy+worked++for+kgb+to+undermine+reagan&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
One of the 392,000,000 Google link results from the first page:
Edward (”Ted”) Moore Kennedy
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=804
bttt
That will only make the Left love him more.
“Do you really think that there is some kind of perverted honor due this character?”
No. I never said that.
This rat has a long and dirty tail.
Kissinger has long maintained they had intel that someone from the US Senate had opened an unauthorized channel of communications with the North Vietnamese leadership via Moscow during the Paris peace talks.
Nixon’s mistaken guess was that it was Senator McGovern who was running for President. It has been reported that this was the real rationale behind the Plumbers and the Democrat headquarters at the Watergate....searching for a smoking gun of some sort that could be used against McGovern.
However, with the aid of 20/20 hindsight....who was in Paris and Moscow around that time? A young John Kerry. And who was John Kerry’s mentor at that time?
You got that right. Senator Ted Kennedy.
In my opinion it is necessary.
Treason against your country carries both a stigma and a death sentence if we are militarily engaged.
So it is pretty serious.
I have no problem with his ilk mourning his loss, but he was not the "great American" he made himself out to be. He was a drunken, womanizing scoundrel. He left that poor girl to drown in the car in 10 feet of water. He was a self-initiated agent for the USSR's KGB during the cold war.
That is enough for me to call him a modern Benedict Arnold.
It's going to be tough few days watching the TV networks give Teddy Kennedy the Michael Jackson treatment. By the weekend, he'll be judged (by the leftmedia) as equal to and more important than any president that ever lived, including JFK, because Ted lived much longer and accomplished more. Yeah, right.
It’s always a good time to speak the truth.
I'm so using that the next time I get a chance.
The man was garbage.
I do not mourn murderers, liars and thieves who die who don’t happen to be US Senators...so why should I mourn a murderer, liar and thief JUST BECAUSE he’s a US Senator?
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