Red Ted Who Left A Girl Dead, and the KGB Continued
A big thanks to PCD for pointing out the great links that Brian has. CNS News:
While Soviet troops occupied Afghanistan in 1980, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) worked in close concert with high level Kremlin officials to alter the direction of U.S. policy, according to documents made available through a KGB defector.
Details concerning Kennedy’s correspondence with KGB agents are included in the writings of the late Vasiliy Mitrokhin who defected to Britain in 1992. The Mitrokhin papers highlight a meeting that took place at the behest of Kennedy between former Sen. John Tunney (D-Calif.) and KGB agents in Moscow on March 5, 1980.
The exchange of information between Tunney and the KGB is included as part of a report Mitrokhin filed with the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. The former KGB man continued to work with British intelligence until the time of his death.
Here is the Russian version (scanned copies of the memo, which is in Russian).
Obviously, I don’t speak Russian so I can’t say for sure if both are identical or not, but I’d venture to say that they are. It appears the English version sets up a little background details first, then gets into the actual translation.
The KGB files Mitrokhin retrieved indicate that Kennedy fixed the blame for heightened international tensions on the Carter White House, not on the Kremlin. Kennedy at the time was challenging incumbent Carter for the Democratic nomination for president.
Tunney told his KGB counterparts that Kennedy was impressed by the foreign policy statements made by then General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Kennedy saw in Brezhnev a leader who was firmly committed to the policy of “détente,” the report said.
But, in Kennedy’s estimation, the Carter administration had assumed an overly belligerent posture toward the Soviet Union after the invasion of Afghanistan, Mitrokhin wrote.
In Kennedy’s view, “the atmosphere of tension and hostility towards the whole Soviet people was being fuelled by Carter” as well as by some key advisors, the Pentagon and the U.S. military industrial complex, the Mitrokhin report states.
Throughout the meeting Tunney remained focused on the separation between Kennedy’s proposals and the official stance of the Carter White House. While official U.S. policy called for the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan, Kennedy avoided “touching the question of the legality of the presence of Soviet troops,” Mitrokhin reported.
Instead, Kennedy relayed through his envoy, Tunney, his support for a withdrawal of Soviet forces that would be coupled with policy directives that “guaranteed non-interference” by competing foreign powers in the internal affairs of Afghanistan.
Since there was intense disagreement between Kennedy and the administration on policy toward the Soviets, Tunney told the KGB that the Massachusetts senator had concluded “it was his duty to take action himself, which could force the Carter administration to act to de-escalate the crisis,” Mitrokhin wrote.
In 1980 Kennedy lost to Carter in the Democratic primary, and the incumbent in turn lost to Ronald Reagan in the general election.
November 2, 2006 - 10:54 AM on November 2nd, 2006
WHEN is this traitor going to arrested? He is a threat to National Security! Our troops are fighting for this nation in a difficult, dangerous struggle, and this bloated traitor is allowed to maintain his position!
November 2, 2006 - 11:05 AM on November 2nd, 2006
Remember Kennedy’s prediction of 40,000 body bags for Gulf War I? I really wonder how hard he and his staff worked to make that come true.
November 2, 2006 - 11:52 AM on November 2nd, 2006
1- he has diplomatic immunity!:razz:
November 2, 2006 - 12:10 PM on November 2nd, 2006
3- I didn’t even think of that! That’s it! As (effectively) a Russian Diplomat, that would be the case!
2- Yes, he and his ilk tried, but the count fell way short of their goal.
November 2, 2006 - 12:20 PM on November 2nd, 2006
November 2, 2006 - 12:48 PM on November 2nd, 2006
Even though I a right-wing extremist Theocon reactionary that should be put in prison (according to Jaxeass)?
November 2, 2006 - 01:12 PM on November 2nd, 2006
Well what did you expect from this walkin, talkin, booze guzzlin peice of dog vomit?? Morals? Truth? intgrity?
November 2, 2006 - 02:02 PM on November 2nd, 2006
Ted Kennedy is a traitor he shoild be indited and sent to prison this is waht you get from a evil power hungry liberal left-wing demacrat this is treason he is a disgrace to the name of his late brother JFK who faced down the russians and cubans during the misle crisis:mad:
November 20, 2006 - 05:09 AM on November 20th, 2006
[...] It comes as no surprise that a Kennedy undermines American policy, in fact Joe Kennedy teaming up with CITCO is par for the course. And here I thought that we went to war for oil! [...]
March 3, 2007 - 08:45 PM on March 3rd, 2007
[...] The shooting came four days after he told “Dateline NBC” that he believes the Russian government was involved in the fatal poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London. From MSNBC: Joyal is a long-time consultant on security and Russian affairs. From 1980 to 1989, he was director of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee. I hope he doesn’t seek help from Teddy! Bookmark to: [...]