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Ted Kennedy's KGB Correspondence
American Spectator ^ | 6/22/10 | Kevin Mooney

Posted on 06/22/2010 4:34:38 AM PDT by reaganrevolutionin2010

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's self-serving, secret correspondence with Soviet agents during the height of the Cold War included proposals for collaborative efforts designed to undermine official U.S. policy set by Democratic and Republican administrations, KGB documents show.

With the media now reporting on the late senator's just released Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file, now is an opportune time for a more expansive investigation into Kennedy's KGB contacts. The agency took a keen interest in a 1961 "fact-finding" trip the Massachusetts Democrat took to Mexico and other parts of Latin America where he may have had contact with communist agents, according to the file.

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So, Teddy was actually a KGB agent. How nice.
1 posted on 06/22/2010 4:34:38 AM PDT by reaganrevolutionin2010
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Who here is surprised??? Anybody?


2 posted on 06/22/2010 4:36:37 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue
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Thank God that SOB can no longer kill anyone else or do other things to hurt our country.


3 posted on 06/22/2010 4:37:40 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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It wasn’t only the KGB, he was close with the communists in South and Central America as well.

He was their ‘dear comrade’.


4 posted on 06/22/2010 4:39:41 AM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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Bookmark


5 posted on 06/22/2010 4:40:06 AM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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I knew he corresponded with the Soviets and had offshore accounts and was up to his eyeballs in “big oil” but, I didn't know he was involved with the KGB.

My opinion of him is even lower than it was before.

I wonder how many other politicians were/are involved with the Communists...three others come to mind immediately.

6 posted on 06/22/2010 4:41:39 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Professional Politicians are a Threat to the Republic! Remove them on 11-3-10!)
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“So, Teddy was actually a KGB agent. How nice.”

No shock there. Nor is it any shock that not a single major MSM/LSM outlet has run with this.

Fast forward to today: Obama is a jihadist symp/agent. He’s not even hiding it. Will it be 40+ years until the MSM/LSM might run with that? Of course not — we’re not going to last that long...


7 posted on 06/22/2010 4:45:50 AM PDT by piytar (Obama keeps going to golf courses instead of the Gulf. Maybe he's too stupid to know the difference?)
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Ted Kennedy: another DumbocRAT enemy within. Where are the exterminators of these noxious and dangerous pests?


8 posted on 06/22/2010 4:46:16 AM PDT by Jim W N
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Hey, so what’s the problem with having had contact with a few communists?

One would think they were murderers, or hard-core totalitarians the way you guys carry on.

/S/

(Don’t you know? The right people are now in power and they are going to institute paradise on earth; as soon as they neuter all those nasty conservatives and republicans out there.)

IMHO


9 posted on 06/22/2010 4:49:57 AM PDT by ripley
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10 posted on 06/22/2010 4:50:40 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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DemocRat = Traitor


11 posted on 06/22/2010 4:55:23 AM PDT by Conan the Conservative (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the hippies.)
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Obama is a jihadist symp/agent. He’s not even hiding it.

True. And people forget that Eddie Kennedy would have our PRESIDENT, had he not drowned Mary Jo.

Obama is the most successful mole in the history of the world, as Kennedy would have been. "Conspiracy" my a$$.

12 posted on 06/22/2010 5:02:41 AM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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Dummies are traitors, it’s in their DNA. Why else would anyone want to be a member of such a disgraceful Party.


13 posted on 06/22/2010 5:06:30 AM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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TRAITOROUS SLUG POO FROM THE LOWEST CESSPOOL OF . . .

Fascinating how the Vatican still thought he was worthy the funeral of a saint.

How telling.


14 posted on 06/22/2010 5:07:58 AM PDT by Quix (THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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bump


15 posted on 06/22/2010 5:08:56 AM PDT by thinden
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Next time I’m at Arlington I’ll make time to spit at his grave.


16 posted on 06/22/2010 5:11:24 AM PDT by reaganrevolutionin2010
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To: pnh102

Indeed ... now he is an evangelist.


17 posted on 06/22/2010 5:11:27 AM PDT by dartuser ("Palin 2012 ... nothing else will do.")
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It wasn’t just Teddy!!!

Jimmy Carter Under Fire for Recruiting Soviets Against Reagan

Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com
Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2002
WASHINGTON Former President Jimmy Carter owes an explanation to the American people for his behavior during the Cold War, says the author of a new book.

“Reagans War reveals new information that Carter, as president and later as a private citizen, sought the help of an avowed foreign enemy of this country to undermine Reagans candidacy in 1980 and, even more shocking, tried to cripple President Reagans foreign policy in 1984.

The former Democrat president, who had been ousted by voters four years earlier, wanted the Soviets to help him put a Democrat back in the White House.

Speaking Tuesday at a seminar at the Institute of World Politics, the books author, Peter Schweizer, said Jimmy Carter owes a full explanation, and then depending on his answer, a decision could be made as to whether the former president “stepped over the line from pure dissent to giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

NewsMax.com CEO Christopher Ruddy has written that Carter “may well have committed treason by enlisting the help of the Soviet Union in the 1980 and 1984 presidential elections.

“Its a fair question for him [Carter] to give his account of what happened, and a response, which he has not done, the author told NewsMax.com. “Then, you know, depending on his reaction and response, there needs to be further discussion. The other thing potentially that perhaps ought to be asked [is] that Moscow release any files it has on the meetings.

“All we have right now, Schweizer added, “is based on these accounts by [former Soviet Ambassador] Dobrynin. And it begs the question: Is there any more material based on his [Carters] dealings with Moscow?

‘Carter Won’t Forget’ Soviet Assistance

Schweizers book, which is going straight to the top of the best-seller list, reveals that during the 1980 campaign when Reagan was gaining in the polls, Carter “dispatched [pro-Soviet industrialist] Armand Hammer to the Soviet Embassy for a secret meeting with Ambassador Dobrynin to ask for Soviet help with Jewish emigration and other potential vote-getting issues for a sitting president. The Soviets were promised that “Carter wont forget that service if he is re-elected.

Schweizer reports that when Reagan was running for re-election in 1984, Carter himself visited Ambassador Dobrynin warning there “would not be a single agreement on arms control, especially on nuclear arms, as long as Reagan was in power.

Carter wanted the Soviet Union to help the Democrats regain the presidency. History shows his prophecy about no hope for a nuclear arms agreement to be wrong. It was a part of Reagan’s success in ending the Cold War on Americas terms.

Asking Carter to explain to Americans this part of his stewardship is most “reasonable, in Schweizers view. When he asked the former president about this, all the author got was “No comment.

location: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/10/29/201145.shtml

Peter Schweizer, a Hoover Institution research fellow, has just written a new book, “Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism.”

This book may well force historians to revise the history of the Cold War.

Schweizer, after scouring once-classified KGB, East German Stasi and Soviet Communist Party files, discovered incontrovertible evidence that the Soviets not only played footsie with high-ranking Democrats, they also worked behind the scenes to influence American elections.

In “Reagan’s War,” Schweizer shows how the Democrats worked with Moscow to try to undermine Reagan before and after he became president.

Jimmy Carter’s Dirty Tricks

Soviet diplomatic accounts and material from the archives show that in January 1984, former President Jimmy Carter dropped by Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin’s residence for a private meeting.

Carter expressed his concern about and opposition to Reagan’s defense buildup. He boldly told Dobrynin that Moscow would be better off with someone else in the White House. If Reagan won, he warned, “There would not be a single agreement on arms control, especially on nuclear arms, as long as Reagan remained in power.”

Using the Russians to influence the presidential election was nothing new for Carter.

Schweizer reveals Russian documents that show that in the waning days of the 1980 campaign, the Carter White House dispatched businessman Armand Hammer to the Soviet Embassy.

Hammer was a longtime Soviet-phile, and he explained to the Soviet ambassador that Carter was “clearly alarmed” at the prospect of losing to Reagan.

Hammer pleaded with the Russians for help. He asked if the Kremlin could expand Jewish emigration to bolster Carter’s standing in the polls.

‘Carter Won’t Forget That Service’

“Carter won’t forget that service if he is elected,” Hammer told Dobrynin.

Carter was not the only Democrat to make clear to the Russians where their loyalty lay. As the election neared in 1984, Dobrynin recalls meetings with Speaker of the House Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill.

O’Neill told Dobrynin that no effort should be spared to prevent “that demagogue Reagan” from being re-elected.

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http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2002/10/16/214040


18 posted on 06/22/2010 5:12:55 AM PDT by RaceBannon (RON PAUL: THE PARTY OF TRUTHERS, TRAITORS AND UFO CHASERS!!!)
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I read about this traitorus move last year...and nothing ever came of it. I hope some real patriots get to write the history on this evil man...not the fluff pieces. Treasonous ba$tard.


19 posted on 06/22/2010 5:15:39 AM PDT by SueRae
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Can we give Teddy credit for the demise of American influence in Latin America? Anybody living still remember the Monroe Doctrine? One of Teddy's life-long passions was the destruction of Ft. Benning Georgia's training facility for Latin America's military.

We can take comfort Teddy remains sober in hell with a bottle and babe just out of reach.

20 posted on 06/22/2010 5:17:55 AM PDT by Broker (Stranger in a very strange land.)
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