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...Brown, Cranston, Kennedy, Ribicoff, Fulbright, Conyers... besides McCarthy, any non-Commies attend the meeting? ;') McCarthy ran as an independent that year (I voted for him; LaRouche also ran on the USLP ticket, claiming that a vote for Carter would trigger thermonuclear war). In either 1980 or 1984 he didn't run, and endorsed Reagan instead. :')
At one point while writing this, I found myself pondering how many KGB agents it was physically possible for Jimmy Carter to fit into one hotel room. . .Reminds me of the scene in A Night at the Opera where the Marx brothers managed to fit Allan Jones, two cleaning ladies, a manicurist, a ship's engineer, an engineer's assistant, a girl calling her aunt, and three waiters into one ship cabin :-)
