Remembering Teddy’s KGB Connection
by Connie Hair
08/27/2009
The death of Sen. Edward M. “Teddy” Kennedy this week marks the end of an
American political era colored in crayon by the media-generated notion of
American royalty. Ted Kennedy will be laid to rest at Arlington Cemetery, the
last of the three Kennedy brothers who once dominated the American political
landscape, and the only one of the four Kennedy brothers to live to see his
fifties.
As his fellow liberals attempt to shove the national takeover of health care
through Congress, even suggesting renaming the bill after Kennedy in a memorial
tribute, it becomes urgent to set aside the perfunctory kind words one usually
says about the departed -- regardless of truth. A whitewash of Kennedy’s
history cannot be used as an emotional power play to push through
government-run health care in his “honor.”
I will not belabor the story of Mary Jo Kopechne, the young woman left behind
in her own water torture at the hands of the late senator. That particular
miscarriage of justice has come to mind for many as we all heard of Kennedy’s
death this week and has even been reported as part of his sordid legacy by a
few media outlets.
But Kennedy’s private outreach to the KGB Soviet intelligence agency in
attempts to undermine first President Jimmy Carter then President Ronald Reagan
say as much as Chappaquiddick did about the man who appeared to have no moral
restraints whatsoever on his personal pursuit of raw political power.
Documents found in Soviet archives after the fall of the Iron Curtain revealed
a great deal about the character of Ted Kennedy.
As HUMAN EVENTS first reported on December 8, 2003:
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-Ca.). 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.
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.
Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, found contemporaneous KGB
documentation and published a story in February of 1992 of an additional
communiqué by Ted Kennedy to the Soviet intelligence agency through Tunney.
Full text of the letter from the appendix of Paul Kengor’s book The Crusader:
Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism can be found here.
This time it was President Reagan in Kennedy’s crosshairs as he attempted to
arrange a meeting between Kennedy and General Secretary of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Yuri Andropov.
In this May 14, 1983, letter written by underling Viktor Chebrikov to Andropov,
he relayed Kennedy’s offer to meet, Chebrikov explaining that Kennedy blamed
poor American-Soviet relations not on the Communist country, but on President
Reagan. According to Chebrikov’s letter, Kennedy said he wanted to stop
Reagan’s re-election effort in 1984.
Chebrikov’s letter also claimed that Kennedy was “very impressed” with Andropov
and that Kennedy was reaching out to the Soviets to thwart Reagan’s forceful
defense policies. Kennedy suggested the Soviets reach out specifically to
Barbara Walters and Walter Cronkite to counter in the American media what he
said Kennedy considered Reagan “propaganda.”
Chebrikov's letter to Andropov also stated that Kennedy himself had offered to
travel to Moscow to meet with Andropov if he would extend an invitation.
These revelations reported in 1992 suggest insight into a man so obsessed with
the acquisition of personal political power that he would reach out to the
communist Soviet Union for help in undermining not one but two American
presidents, one from his own political party.
Kennedy’s strong support for the government takeover of health care and the
effort to pass this legislation in memorial tribute fails to warrant a second
glance.
Rep. Smith Prompts Senate Judiciary to Stop Perez Nomination
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the ranking member of the House Judiciary
Committee, requested in a letter to Senate colleagues yesterday that they place
a hold on the nomination of Tom Perez to be Assistant Attorney General of the
Civil Rights Division. Smith requested the delay of the confirmation process
until the Justice Department provides Congress with sufficient information
regarding the sudden dismissal of a case alleging voter intimidation by the New
Black Panther Party on Election Day 2008.
According to Smith, the Justice Department’s response to Congress was “overly
vague, raising concerns about possible political interference in this case… If
the Department’s political appointees applied pressure to career attorneys to
dismiss this case, then they have committed an offense that undermines every
American’s right to choose their elected officials.”
Stay tuned.
Connie Hair is a freelance writer, a former speechwriter for Rep. Trent Franks
(R-AZ) and a former media and coalitions advisor to the Senate Republican
Conference.
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