Kerry, the Sandinistas, and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)

"Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies" | 1987 | S. Steven Powell

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for posting this information. Your first post looks great! This is some great information and I haven't seen it posted on here.

[Wolverine]

Interesting info...do you have a link to the source?

[Fedora]

PS: I meant to highlight the reference to one Peter Kornbluh arranging Kerry's trip. Kornbluh was an IPS associate quite close to the Sandinistas. Page 79 of the same source (Powell) mentions that in 1983, 1984, and 1985, Kornbluh travelled to visit the Sandinista leadership with the following individuals: Robert Borosage, Saul Landau, Richard Barnet, and Cora Weiss. Page 134 mentions he was also a consultant for NPR while working at IPS.

[Texas_Jarhead]

Let me be the first to say, your first post is an interesting one.

[Fedora]

Thanks! :) I have the page scanned in, but I don't know how to post scanned jpgs. If someone would direct me to a how-to on that I'd appreciate it :)

[Fedora]

Unfortunately it's not online. It's from a book I found at a used bookstore that appears to have had limited distribution. But I've seen the book referenced by some online sites, so there are copies floating around out there. David Horowitz wrote the foreword, so he may have additional information on these subjects, if someone knows how to contact him.

[Ragirl]

Very Very interesting. Bump for later review.

[Fedora]

Thanks! :) I thought the info was interesting also.

[ntnychik]

Nice job, Fedora. Here's a thread from the Boston Globe series on John Kerry. Go to Part 6 and click on "photos". The second pic is Kerry, Harkin and Ortega. Take your time on the thread. War pics in Part 3, French-looking ex-wife in Part 4, Dukakis, Mondale & Kerry in Part 5. Also in Part 5, an incredible shot of Kerry decorating a needleless tree, while a woman stands nearby holding an Acid Rain umbrella. Can't make this stuff up.
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/

[Fedora]

Thanks!--appreciate the info. Maybe if I can find some free webspace I'll set up a site where it can be linked.

[Revolting cat!]

Ah yes, the IPS and the most cleverly named Communist front group since the ACLU and the People for the American Way, the Christic Institute. Are they still around? Who funds them now, Fidel?

[Wolverine]

Put it on a friendly blog..

[Steven W.]

Thank you for your post!

For those who don't recall, take note of the following:

Within a week the Sandinista president, Daniel Ortega, flew to Moscow and secured $200 million in Soviet aid. Shocked and embarrassed, Congress reversed gears and granted $27 million in humanitarian aid to the contras.

This was no small embarassment - Kerry led the liberals in congress in support of the communist regime in Managua, all the time denying that they were, indeed, Marxists, and trying to portray the killers as peaceful socialists (despite their slaughter of dissidents in Nicaragua). With the evidence mounting Kerry went to Managua for damage control and came back assuring America that the thug Ortega was a good man worthy of support by the US.

After Kerry & friends left, Ortega headed right to USSR and received one of many large chunks of cash fed to the dispicable Sandinista regime to forment war upon the Nicaraguan populace and to provide the seeds for communist revolution in neighboring Latin American countries. The libs were exposed as complete & total fools and, despite predictions by the Sandinista sympathizers here in the US, the vote passed easily providing some degree of support for the Contras / liberation freedom fighters.

Kerry fought every attempt by the US and Nicaraguan people to remove Daniel Ortega from power and, when given the first chance to do so, he was removed quite handily through the first free election. Ortega has continually tried to get back into office but the Nicaraguan people are no suckers and neither should America be when it comes to judging the stupidity and downright dangerous policies assumed by Hanoi John Kerry throughout his public life.

[Fedora]

Thanks for the great link! Skimming it now--will save it and see if it crossreferences with anything. On the page with the war pics, two things that immediately jump out at me are the references to Kerry's sister getting him involved in the antiwar movement and the association with former RFK speechwriter Adam Walinsky--I suspect a possible link with Ted Kennedy's Watergate-era activity may lurk there. Other useful stuff on that link as well--much appreciated.

[hedgie]

Oh man, "CISPES," that really takes me back. 1985, we were four years from winning the Cold war. Of course the liberals wanted to throw in the towel. I was in college and the whimpering about Reagan, "Star Wars," etc. was unbearable. Amazing how the same mentality is coming right back with respect to the war on terror. The only way I can sleep at night is knowing we must be 4th down and goal if our left flank is once again ready to quit.

[Fedora]

Yep, they're still around. Here's one of their websites:

http://www.ips-dc.org/

I think they have other affiliates which may have other names/sites. I don't know who funds them, but it's a good question worth looking into.

[Steven W.]

I don't know what happened with the Christic Institute; their lead LIAR was Daniel Sheehan and the last thing I can find searching for him on the Net was a speech he gave about UFOs in 2001. Most of the communist front groups, like the Christic Institute, were forced to fold up camp when the USSR went out of business and their well channeled sources of (commie backed) funding dried up. Today they're superceeded by the likes of MoveOn.org and other liberal front groups that are sponsored by George Soros and others.

[mrsmith]

Amazing what comes up on a google for kerry and ips:
http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Zines/zigzag1.4
"Senator John Kerry hired a former [Marxist Institute for Policy Studies] fellow, Gareth Porter, to be his legislative aide. Porter...defend[ed] the bloody [Marxist] Pol Pot regime in Cambodia long after the evidence of its genocide [classocide] of its own people had become overwhelming." [_Communists in the Democratic Party_-Concerned Voters]

The swift and seamless[!] nature of Mr.[!]Gorbachev's life-change[!] from Communist strongman to environmental star[!] was epitomized by Senator John F. Kerry....'I think it fair to say you might have called him the environmental President,' Mr.Kerry said. [_NYT_, Apr. 16, 1993]

This guys wrapped a little tight, but I love that NYTimes quote. It'll get him the enviro vote for sure!