Judicial Watch is doing vital work in bringing the Ted Kennedy FBI files to light. The man was a real piece of work. At my old stomping grounds I chased a story about him that still hasn’t quite resolved completely, the question of what the KGB had on him in its files. The KGB had in its files a plan in which Kennedy hoped to use US journalists and Soviet help to defeat President Reagan in 1984.
That document is a memo regarding an offer made by Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts via former Senator John Tunney, both Democrats, to the General Secretary of the Communist Party, USSR, Yuri Andropov, in 1983. The offer was to help the Soviet leadership, military and civilian, conduct a PR campaign in the United States as President Ronald Reagan sought re-election. The goal of the PR campaign would be to cast President Reagan as a warmonger, the Soviets as willing to peacefully co-exist, and thereby turn the electorate away from Reagan. It was a plan to enlist Soviet help, and use the American press, in unseating an American president.
The intriguing thing to me now, after reading Clarice’s post over the weekend, is how well the KGB file fits in terms of character with what the FBI had come up with. The FBI files depict Kennedy as always being eager to meet with the hard leftists of whatever country he happened to be visiting.
“[I]n each country Kennedy insisted on interviewing ‘the angry young men’ of the country. He wanted to meet with communists and others who had left-wing views. …Ambassador Freeman, Bogota, said the first person whom Kennedy wanted to meet was Lauchlin Currie.” (The document subsequently identifies Currie as a person who “had been mentioned in Washington investigations of Soviet spy rings.”)
That information is from a 1961 State Department memo. The KGB file depicts Kennedy as being eager to work with the hard leftists of the USSR to unseat Reagan two decades later. Together, the FBI and KGB files paint a picture that’s hard to ignore (though the MSM will undoubtedly ignore it fully), of a man who chose a side in the Cold War, and the side he chose was the Soviet side. His entire career in and out of the Senate needs to be re-evaluated in light of what both the FBI and KGB have to say about the late Ted Kennedy.
Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.
Can we start questioning left/libtards’ patriotism now… especially “Saint Ted” here?
Is anyone really surprised by this? Really?
Is this why the KGB files that were opened up in the early 1990s were locked back up so quickly? Due to a Kennedy request for privacy I suppose?
It is comforting to know that this is the first time in my life that there is not a Kennedy holding national office.
We need to make sure it stays that way.
Well, this should make some really big news on CNN tonight.
There is another memo in this release that for some reason is not getting much attention. It is a 1963 memo which talks about a Hungarian hooker in brazil – who had been married to top war-era Nazi and post war-era communist intelligence chiefs – who Teddy had visited in this 1961 trip to south America and now wanted her to be allowed to move to the united states.
State didn’t have a problem, of coarse. But Hoover seems to be skeptical if it is such a good idea