Kennedy and The KGB
This is one of the most disturbing pieces I've ever done and I couldn't make this up if I tried...
Last week, I posted a piece about the talking points of the Communist Party USA and their similarity to the Democratic platform. The talking points listed on the CP USA website are so similar in nature to what we here from the left, it’s really quite chilling. But you don't know the half of it.
According to some Cold War era documents from Soviet archives, it seems Senator Ted Kennedy on more than one occasion met with KGB operatives in hopes of defeating sitting U.S. Presidents. In other words, he collaborated with the Soviets for political reasons. How scary is that? A United States Senator, collaborating with the KGB. Sounds unbelievable I know. But read on…
From the piece on Human Events:
One of the documents, a KGB report to bosses in the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, revealed that "In 1978, American Sen. Edward Kennedy requested the assistance of the KGB to establish a relationship" between the Soviet apparatus and a firm owned by former Sen. John Tunney (D.-Calif.). KGB recommended that they be permitted to do this because Tunney's firm was already connected with a KGB agent in France named David Karr. This document was found by the knowledgeable Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats and published in Moscow's Izvestia in June 1992.
- Former U.S. Senator John Tunney (D-CA) had a firm that was connected with a KGB agent? That’s troubling. And according to the next paragraph, Tunney was a go-between for Kennedy and the KGB -
Another KGB report to their bosses revealed that on March 5, 1980, John Tunney met with the KGB in Moscow on behalf of Sen. Kennedy. Tunney expressed Kennedy's opinion that "nonsense about 'the Soviet military threat' and Soviet ambitions for military expansion in the Persian Gulf . . . was being fueled by [President Jimmy] Carter, [National Security Advisor Zbigniew] Brzezinski, the Pentagon and the military industrial complex."
Kennedy offered to speak out against President Carter on Afghanistan. Shortly thereafter he made public speeches opposing President Carter on this issue. This document was found in KGB archives by Vasiliy Mitrokhin, a courageous KGB officer, who copied documents from the files and then defected to the West. He wrote about this document in a February 2002 paper on Afghanistan that he released through the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson Center.
- Kennedy was willing to speak out against a DEMOCRATIC President in order to help the Soviets position in Afghanistan? That doesn’t even make sense to me. What would be his motivation for speaking out against a democratic President and his position on the Soviet war in Afghanistan? According to a February 1983 London Times article, "It appeared [the Soviets] understood it as an attempt to boost Kennedy's own political fortunes with their assistance." If you remember, Ted Kennedy briefly ran for the Democratic nomination for President against Carter.
The apparent treason continues…
In May 1983, the KGB again reported to their bosses on a discussion in Moscow with former Sen. John Tunney. Kennedy had instructed Tunney, according to the KGB, to carry a message to Yuri Andropov, the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, expressing Kennedy's concern about the anti-Soviet activities of President Ronald Reagan…
Kennedy offered to "undertake some additional steps to counter the militaristic, policy of Reagan and his campaign of psychological pressure on the American population."
- Seems to me, he wanted to weaken the U.S. by defeating the increases in Military spending, which President Regan pressed so hard for. -
Kennedy asked for a meeting with Andropov for the purpose of "arming himself with the Soviet leader's explanations of arms control policy so he can use them later for more convincing speeches in the U.S." He also offered to help get Soviet views on the major U.S. networks and suggested inviting "Elton Rule, ABC chairman of the board, or observers Walter Cronkite or Barbara Walters to Moscow."
So in other words, he was willing to spread the Soviet propaganda to the American people and he thought he could enlist Walter Cronkite and Barbara Walters to help him do it. You think maybe that Russian propaganda coming from a U.S. Senator and brother of the beloved John F. Kennedy would in somehow legitimize that Russian propaganda? Somehow, I think it would. –
Do you think this story is outrageous? It’s easy to think that this is just right wing wishful thinking. However, in doing research on this, I found out this story was originally published in Moscow’s Izvestia by a Russian journalist named Yevgenia Albats. In researching that, I found this on the Accuracy in Media website, half way down the page:
THIS AIM REPORT ON RUSSIA MENTIONS SENATOR TED KENNEDY'S ROLE IN SOLICITING Soviet/KGB support in the 1980s.
Herbert Romerstein's article, posted on the Human Events website on December 5, noted that "One of the documents, a KGB report to their bosses in the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, revealed that 'In 1978, American Sen. Edward Kennedy requested the assistance of the KGB to establish a relationship' between the Soviet apparatus and a firm owned by former Senator John Tunney. KGB recommended that they be permitted to do this because Tunney's firm was already connected with a KGB agent in France named David Karr. This document was found by the knowledgeable Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats and published in Moscow's Izvestia in June 1992." I contacted this Russian journalist, Yevgenia Albats, who is now at Yale, and asked if this account was accurate. "Yes, it is accurate," she replied. We suggest sending a postcard to Boston Globe political columnist, Thomas Oliphant, an admirer of Senator Kennedy, asking him to look into this.
Now, to be fair, the Boston Globe did do a bit of a fluff piece on this in 1992 and you can read it here. That is an image link because the article was found via a Lexis Nexis search and I can't link to it. So I created an image file so you can read it.
There is also a new book out by Grove City College professor Paul Kengor called The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism that also discusses the KGB memos.
Now, this story is all over the internet. Hundreds of blogs are talking about it and yet the mainstream media isn’t discussing it at all. Seems to me, the notion of a U.S. Senator collaborating with the Soviets during the height of the Cold War to undermine 2 different U.S. Presidents is news worthy information.
I’d be willing to bet, if this memo was about President Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney, this would be all over every major network news cast. How do I know this? Look at the coverage the memos about President Bush’s National Guard service, that proved to be fake, got before the 2004 election.
I'm a nobody. Just some blogger on the internet that has spent a few hours of my free time on this. But it seems to me there is enough here to warrant a serious investigation by people that actually know what they're doing.
I am a believer in Freedom of the Press. That notion is key to our Republic standing the test of time. The press has an obligation to hold government accountable to its people. Not just one party of the government, but the entire government. And the thing is, our mainstream media is clearly slanted to the left. And I believe we as Americans owe it to ourselves and to our country to hold the media accountable for their lack of action in this matter.
Last week, I posted a piece about the talking points of the Communist Party USA and their similarity to the Democratic platform. The talking points listed on the CP USA website are so similar in nature to what we here from the left, it’s really quite chilling. But you don't know the half of it.
According to some Cold War era documents from Soviet archives, it seems Senator Ted Kennedy on more than one occasion met with KGB operatives in hopes of defeating sitting U.S. Presidents. In other words, he collaborated with the Soviets for political reasons. How scary is that? A United States Senator, collaborating with the KGB. Sounds unbelievable I know. But read on…
From the piece on Human Events:
One of the documents, a KGB report to bosses in the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, revealed that "In 1978, American Sen. Edward Kennedy requested the assistance of the KGB to establish a relationship" between the Soviet apparatus and a firm owned by former Sen. John Tunney (D.-Calif.). KGB recommended that they be permitted to do this because Tunney's firm was already connected with a KGB agent in France named David Karr. This document was found by the knowledgeable Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats and published in Moscow's Izvestia in June 1992.
- Former U.S. Senator John Tunney (D-CA) had a firm that was connected with a KGB agent? That’s troubling. And according to the next paragraph, Tunney was a go-between for Kennedy and the KGB -
Another KGB report to their bosses revealed that on March 5, 1980, John Tunney met with the KGB in Moscow on behalf of Sen. Kennedy. Tunney expressed Kennedy's opinion that "nonsense about 'the Soviet military threat' and Soviet ambitions for military expansion in the Persian Gulf . . . was being fueled by [President Jimmy] Carter, [National Security Advisor Zbigniew] Brzezinski, the Pentagon and the military industrial complex."
Kennedy offered to speak out against President Carter on Afghanistan. Shortly thereafter he made public speeches opposing President Carter on this issue. This document was found in KGB archives by Vasiliy Mitrokhin, a courageous KGB officer, who copied documents from the files and then defected to the West. He wrote about this document in a February 2002 paper on Afghanistan that he released through the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson Center.
- Kennedy was willing to speak out against a DEMOCRATIC President in order to help the Soviets position in Afghanistan? That doesn’t even make sense to me. What would be his motivation for speaking out against a democratic President and his position on the Soviet war in Afghanistan? According to a February 1983 London Times article, "It appeared [the Soviets] understood it as an attempt to boost Kennedy's own political fortunes with their assistance." If you remember, Ted Kennedy briefly ran for the Democratic nomination for President against Carter.
The apparent treason continues…
In May 1983, the KGB again reported to their bosses on a discussion in Moscow with former Sen. John Tunney. Kennedy had instructed Tunney, according to the KGB, to carry a message to Yuri Andropov, the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, expressing Kennedy's concern about the anti-Soviet activities of President Ronald Reagan…
Kennedy offered to "undertake some additional steps to counter the militaristic, policy of Reagan and his campaign of psychological pressure on the American population."
- Seems to me, he wanted to weaken the U.S. by defeating the increases in Military spending, which President Regan pressed so hard for. -
Kennedy asked for a meeting with Andropov for the purpose of "arming himself with the Soviet leader's explanations of arms control policy so he can use them later for more convincing speeches in the U.S." He also offered to help get Soviet views on the major U.S. networks and suggested inviting "Elton Rule, ABC chairman of the board, or observers Walter Cronkite or Barbara Walters to Moscow."
So in other words, he was willing to spread the Soviet propaganda to the American people and he thought he could enlist Walter Cronkite and Barbara Walters to help him do it. You think maybe that Russian propaganda coming from a U.S. Senator and brother of the beloved John F. Kennedy would in somehow legitimize that Russian propaganda? Somehow, I think it would. –
Do you think this story is outrageous? It’s easy to think that this is just right wing wishful thinking. However, in doing research on this, I found out this story was originally published in Moscow’s Izvestia by a Russian journalist named Yevgenia Albats. In researching that, I found this on the Accuracy in Media website, half way down the page:
THIS AIM REPORT ON RUSSIA MENTIONS SENATOR TED KENNEDY'S ROLE IN SOLICITING Soviet/KGB support in the 1980s.
Herbert Romerstein's article, posted on the Human Events website on December 5, noted that "One of the documents, a KGB report to their bosses in the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, revealed that 'In 1978, American Sen. Edward Kennedy requested the assistance of the KGB to establish a relationship' between the Soviet apparatus and a firm owned by former Senator John Tunney. KGB recommended that they be permitted to do this because Tunney's firm was already connected with a KGB agent in France named David Karr. This document was found by the knowledgeable Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats and published in Moscow's Izvestia in June 1992." I contacted this Russian journalist, Yevgenia Albats, who is now at Yale, and asked if this account was accurate. "Yes, it is accurate," she replied. We suggest sending a postcard to Boston Globe political columnist, Thomas Oliphant, an admirer of Senator Kennedy, asking him to look into this.
Now, to be fair, the Boston Globe did do a bit of a fluff piece on this in 1992 and you can read it here. That is an image link because the article was found via a Lexis Nexis search and I can't link to it. So I created an image file so you can read it.
There is also a new book out by Grove City College professor Paul Kengor called The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism that also discusses the KGB memos.
Now, this story is all over the internet. Hundreds of blogs are talking about it and yet the mainstream media isn’t discussing it at all. Seems to me, the notion of a U.S. Senator collaborating with the Soviets during the height of the Cold War to undermine 2 different U.S. Presidents is news worthy information.
I’d be willing to bet, if this memo was about President Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney, this would be all over every major network news cast. How do I know this? Look at the coverage the memos about President Bush’s National Guard service, that proved to be fake, got before the 2004 election.
I'm a nobody. Just some blogger on the internet that has spent a few hours of my free time on this. But it seems to me there is enough here to warrant a serious investigation by people that actually know what they're doing.
I am a believer in Freedom of the Press. That notion is key to our Republic standing the test of time. The press has an obligation to hold government accountable to its people. Not just one party of the government, but the entire government. And the thing is, our mainstream media is clearly slanted to the left. And I believe we as Americans owe it to ourselves and to our country to hold the media accountable for their lack of action in this matter.
Labels: Politics
posted by Goose at 19:01
4 Comments:
Intersting reading. My guess is the media is still in love with the Kennedy name. I still can't figure out how the guy has stayed in power for so long...
That is a mystery to me as well. I guess in some respects, it's good to be a Kennedy. Unless there's a gun near by.
I am with you on the Kennedy thing. On the Communists and Democrats agree thing, who cares? Just because they think we shouldn't be in Iraq, we screwed up Katrina, the Patriot Act is bad etc, well, that just puts them in agreement with a majority of the population in most places.
Well Mav, that's the difference between you and me. The liberal wing of the democratic party has aligned themselves with far left factions that I do believe pose a real threat to this country. You see it as just political rhetoric. I think it goes much deeper than that.
And don't dumb it down with Iraq, Katrina, and the Patriot act. It's much worse than that. Accusing the Bush Administration of "undermining the Civil Rights Act, revers health and safety laws, deny workers the right to organize a union, Lying to Congress, corrupt no-bid contracts for Haliburton." Every one of those accusastions posted and repeated by the left have been, can be, and often are defeated with facts. I've done it right here on this blog.
So, it's easy to just look at the big 3, Iraq, Katrina, and the Patriot Act, but there's alot more being said by leftist propganda artists that willingly align themselves communists. And I'm sorry, but I'm a product of the Cold War and anyone, for any reason aligning themselves with communists are bad for this country. And when they have a shot at implementing governmental policy in this country, that makes them even more dangerous.
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