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Chappaquiddick Wasn’t the Only Scandal
American Spectator ^ | April 8. 2018 | George Parry

Posted on 04/09/2018 7:58:33 PM PDT by Twotone

There is nothing like historical context to help evaluate and better understand current events. So, in regard to the mainstream media’s breathless, non-stop coverage of the self-levitating Trump-Russia collusion theory, consider this bit of trivia:

In 1991, when Russian President Boris Yeltsin opened the archives of the Soviet Central Committee, Western researchers quickly descended on Moscow to plow through the treasure trove of previously classified official documents.

Among those researchers was Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times and the BBC who found a May 14, 1983 letter from KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov to Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov. Bearing the highest security classification, it summarized a confidential offer by Senator Ted Kennedy to the Soviet leadership to help stop President Ronald Reagan’s aggressive, anti-Soviet defense policies.

The letter was written as the debate was heating up over Reagan’s proposed deployment of intermediate range missiles to counter the Soviets’ medium range weapons in Eastern Europe.

Sebastian reported his find in an article titled “Teddy, the KGB and the top secret file” which appeared in the February 2, 1992, London Times.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: chappaquiddick; collusion; kennedyfamily; tedkennedy
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1 posted on 04/09/2018 7:58:33 PM PDT by Twotone
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2 posted on 04/09/2018 8:04:20 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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3 posted on 04/09/2018 8:05:41 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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He’s still dead, right??


4 posted on 04/09/2018 8:06:11 PM PDT by PGR88
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Kennedy didn't get to meet Andropov in 83' but Samantha Smith did.

That would be the lefts 'Children's Crusade' of the 80's for nuclear disarmament.

5 posted on 04/09/2018 8:11:51 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Twotone

I MC’d a speech by former Novasti Press/KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov when he came to town. He commented that he “HANDLED” Teddy Boy on that trip to Moscow to enlist Soviet help in preventing Reagan from becoming President. He also commented that one of his main tasks during Teddy’s “visit” was to “keep him in booze and broads”.


6 posted on 04/09/2018 8:13:13 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (Why are damn near ALL the SEX FIENDS Democrats?)
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To: Snickering Hound
That would be the lefts 'Children's Crusade' of the 80's for nuclear disarmament.

The original David Hogg.

7 posted on 04/09/2018 8:17:33 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Dick Bachert

More truth about the disgusting “whale of the Senate”!


8 posted on 04/09/2018 8:18:08 PM PDT by Noob1999
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To: Dick Bachert

And there was no need to blackmail him as he was a willing traitor to the USA. What a despicable person Ted Kennedy was!


9 posted on 04/09/2018 8:21:16 PM PDT by Twotone
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The original David Hogg.

Yup. She was on 'Nightline' with Ted Koppel and even the Johnny Carson show.

80's media circus you couldn't avoid pushing for nuclear disarmament.

They followed her around the Soviet Union with breathless reports of what she thought.

She didn't actually get to meet Andropov, he had already fallen ill and she had to settle for a phone call.

She was killed in a plane crash in 85' otherwise you would have heard much, much more out of her.

Some conspiracy theories at the time for that, pushed by the Soviets.

10 posted on 04/09/2018 8:24:47 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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It just goes to show, there’s nothing new under the Sun.


11 posted on 04/09/2018 8:32:23 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Bearing the highest security classification, it summarized a confidential offer by Senator Ted Kennedy to the Soviet leadership to help stop President Ronald Reagan’s aggressive, anti-Soviet defense policies.

Democrat commie traitor... somethings never change...

12 posted on 04/09/2018 8:32:33 PM PDT by GOPJ (While China was distracting DC & Con ess w/cash China cornered the Earth Elemental Markets...)
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To: PGR88
He’s still dead, right??

Yes, but he still votes in Chicago...

13 posted on 04/09/2018 8:33:46 PM PDT by GOPJ (While China was distracting DC & Con ess w/cash China cornered the Earth Elemental Markets...)
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To: Snickering Hound

Samantha Smith was such a threat that she was killed ,along with 7 others, in a plane crash to keep her quiet.


14 posted on 04/09/2018 8:44:43 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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Being interviewed by Johnny Carson who was wishing she was Morgan Fairchild...

p07

Ted Koppel doing that hard journalism that 'Nightline' is known for...

p07

The Soviets dressed her up as a Soviet Pioneer. Apparently they hadn't 'pioneered' waxing unibrows yet.

15 posted on 04/09/2018 8:54:31 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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Beloved by the commies.

An honorary young pioneer.

16 posted on 04/09/2018 8:54:59 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: GOPJ; SJackson; SunkenCiv

And John Kerry negotiated directly with the communists in Paris and in Nicaragua AGAINST the sitting US president and US State Dept.


17 posted on 04/09/2018 8:55:58 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
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Why did he get booted out of the army during the Korean war?


18 posted on 04/09/2018 8:56:20 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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>> the mainstream media’s breathless, non-stop coverage

The nondescript MSM... name the parent companies, Parry.


19 posted on 04/09/2018 8:58:50 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: BBell

That stamp came out after she was killed in the commuter plane crash.

The Soviets even named a ship after her.


20 posted on 04/09/2018 9:00:38 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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