In a saner time – this would have been called out for exactly what it was – treason! It is obvious that the late Senator from Massachusetts in order to promote his own personal agenda and to see not only the Reagan but other administrations, both Republican and Democratic  fail – was willing to collaborate with the bloated and bloody neo-Stalinists of the Brezhnev era (the very people who were responsible for crushing the Prague Spring of 1968 and the arms suppliers of international terrorists from the Baader-Meinhof gang to the PFLP). Kennedy’s intermediary with the Kremlin, then Sen. John Tunney of California, was once aptly described as “the light weight son of a heavy weight (former boxer Gene Tunney).”

by Kevin Mooney

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.

However, the 2,352 pages of FBI files that cover a period ranging from 1961 to 1985 only tell a small part of the story and do not mention Kennedy’s overtures to Soviet officials. These did not become known outside of Moscow until several years after Cold War tensions receded.

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KENNEDY ALSO OFFERED TO WORK in close concert with high level Soviet officials to sabotage President Ronald Reagan’s re-election efforts and to orchestrate favorable American press coverage for Andropov and Soviet military officials, according to the 1983 KGB document.

Kennedy offered to have “representatives of the largest television companies in the U.S. contact Y.V. Andropov for an invitation to Moscow for the interview,” KGB head Viktor Chebrikov explained in a letter to the general secretary dated May 14, 1983, the file shows. The idea here would be for the Soviet leader to make an end run around Reagan and make a direct appeal to the American people.

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The pattern of behavior should concern members of both political parties, Kengor said, because it shows Kennedy was willing to work against American foreign policy, regardless of who occupied the White House.

Read the rest: Ted Kennedy’s KGB correspondence

Previously on the Blogmocracy: Senator Ted Kennedy cooperated with the KGB