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Posted on 10/20/2006 8:32:05 PM PDT by bnelson44
So you want answers, eh? Not satisfied with the CNS report?
I’ve got answers.
There’s a new book on Ronald Reagan making the rounds, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism. Its author, Paul Kengor, unearthed a sensational document from the Soviet archives. That document is a memo regarding an offer made by Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts via former Senator John Tunney, both Democrats, to the General Secretary of the Communist Party, USSR, Yuri Andropov, in 1983. The offer was to help the Soviet leadership, military and civilian, conduct a PR campaign in the United States as President Ronald Reagan sought re-election. The goal of the PR campaign would be to cast President Reagan as a warmonger, the Soviets as willing to peacefully co-exist, and thereby turn the electorate away from Reagan. It was a plan to enlist Soviet help, and use the American press, in unseating an American president.
Think about that.
I received a review copy of The Crusader on Wednesday. The book first references the Kennedy plan on page 206, and includes the complete Soviet memo, dated May 14, 1983, in the Appendix. It’s an eye opener.
If the proposal is recognized as worthy, then Kennedy and his friends will bring about suitable steps to have representatives of the largest television companies in the USA contact Y. V. Andropov for an invitation to Moscow for the interview. Specifically, the board of directors of ABC, Elton Raul and the television columnists Walter Cronkite or Barbara Walters could visit Moscow. The senator underlined the importance that this initiative should be seen as coming from the American side.
Just, not the senator himself. Because collaborating with the leadership of a foreign state to unseat an American president, by whatever means, could be seen by Americans as treasonous. No fingerprints, that’s the rule. Who knew Reagan would win and then defeat the USSR, so this document could see the light of day? The Kennedy KGB memo runs about four pages. If there’s an honest liberal left in the country, it would be nice to have their take on this revelation.
The man should be tarred and feathered.
Then carried out of Washington on a rail. Strike that, it would have to be a log, the size of a redwood.
Can someone post the memo here?
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Ted and Patrick and all the rest of the Kennedy Clan can go participate in a Demolition Derby....on a bridge.
They need to find the letter Kennedy and Dodd sent to Osama bin Laden last month.
At a HS football game Friday night, a kid behind me in the stands yelled, "Be as deadly as Dick Cheney's shotgun!" while trying to get his team moving.
I turned back, looked at the kid, and said, "That's not very deadly. Why don't you yell, 'Be as deadly as Ted Kennedy's car!'"
The kid shut up. Those around him started laughing. I chuckled to myself the rest of the game.
Walter and Teddy, I shouldn't be surprised, but I am.
Now, this will be swept under the rug as Ted will claim he was 'under the influence' of ETOH and can't be held responsible for his actions. Lucky rehab center thats going to get him. not.
Good post bnelson.
Thought you might like this Ivan.
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Some of us remember this story from the eighties, also that democrat members of congress were in touch with Ortega in Nicaragua, and were encouraging him to hold on until they could weaken Reagan's efforts to dislodge him.
Remember the documents the army found in Grenada linking Dellums to the communist leader of that nation.
--members of congress were in touch with Ortega in Nicaragua, and were encouraging him to hold on until they could weaken Reagan's efforts to dislodge him. --
kerry & harkin (lower case is intentional), among others.
The CNS article refers to Kennedy offering to arrange for broadcast networks to offer time for Andropov to address the American people. I'd like to know which networks was Kennedy talking to.
Were the TV networks really sympathetic to the Soviets in the 1980's? I'd like to know that, if it were true.
-PJ
Fox, maybe. Forget the rest.
bttt
Treason, anyone?
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