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Special Report
Ted Kennedy’s KGB Correspondence
What the FBI missed — and it deserves greater media attention, given how it was designed to undermine two presidencies.
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.
Kennedy’s long history with the KGB is well documented, but underreported. It remains available through the writings of the now deceased Vasiliy Mitrokhin, who defected to Britain from the Soviet Union in 1992, and a separate 1983 memo addressed to then General Secretary Yuri Andropov. Kennedy’s actions occurred at the expense of presidential authority and in violation of federal law, according to academics and scholars who are familiar with the documents.
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 information exchanged during this encounter 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.
Noted Cold War author and researcher Herbert Romerstein has described Mitrokhin as a “highly credible source” with vast knowledge of the now-closed KGB archives. Romerstein, who headed up the U.S. government’s Office to Counter Soviet Disinformation and Active Measures during the 1980s, has explained in previous interviews that Mitrokhin made meticulous copies of KGB files by hand prior to his defection.
The KGB files Mitrokhin retrieved indicate that Kennedy fixed the blame for heightened international tensions on the Carter White House, not on the Kremlin. It is important to note that Kennedy was challenging incumbent Carter for the Democratic nomination for president at that time.
Tunney told his KGB counterparts that Kennedy was impressed by the foreign policy statements made by General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Kennedy saw in Brezhnev a leader who was firmly committed to the policy of “détente,” the report said.
Moreover, Kennedy also blamed the Carter Administration for assuming an overly belligerent posture toward the Soviet Union after the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, according to the papers.
“The atmosphere of tension and hostility towards the whole Soviet people was being fuelled by Carter,” Kennedy argued, as well as by some key advisors, the Pentagon and the U.S. military industrial complex, Mitrokhin wrote.
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.
The KGB letter to Andropov first came to light in a Feb. 2, 1992 report published in the London Times entitled “Teddy, the KGB and the Top Secret File.” Paul Kengor, a Grove City College political science professor, included the document in his 2006 book: The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and The Fall of Communism.
Kennedy suggested that Walter Cronkite, Barbara Walters and Elton Raul, the president of the board of directors for ABC, be considered for the interviews with Andropov in Moscow. He also asked the KGB to consider having “lower level Soviet officials, particularly the military” take part in television interviews inside the U.S. where they could convey peaceful intentions.
Tunney, the former senator, once again served as an intermediary traveling to Moscow in 1983 to relay Kennedy’s intentions. In the interest of world peace and improved American-Soviet relations, the Massachusetts Democrat offered specific proposals built around a public relations effort designed to “counter the militaristic politics of Reagan and his campaign to psychologically burden the American people,” Chebrikov wrote.
About the Author
Kevin Mooney is an investigative reporter with free market think tanks associated with the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity. He has also written for the Daily Caller, the Washington Times, the Washington Examiner, NetRightDaily.com and NewsBusters.
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smokehouse| 6.22.10 @ 6:24AM
It's good this POS is dead! Carter, Kennedy, Gore, Clinton and Obama. These are liberals hell bent on destroying America.
Walking Horse| 6.22.10 @ 12:06PM
As Ann Coulter wrote in considerable detail, Joseph McCarthy was correct. We have been systematically undermined by Statists (Liberals, Progressives, Fascists, Socialists, Marxists) for generations. If Kennedy's and McCarthy's careers had intersected, it would have been entertaining, to say the least.
Cpm| 6.22.10 @ 12:18PM
Don't forget Robert Kennedy was an assistant counsel to McCarthy's committee and Tailgunner Joe was a Kennedy family friend and guest, at least before he fell from grace.
FTM| 6.24.10 @ 3:37AM
As I was reading this article I was thinking that if this were true then Joe McCarthy was right.
Alan Brooks| 6.22.10 @ 4:18PM
If this piece is accurate, I take back what I wrote about Ted being outside the Pearly Gates, while dogs sniff his luggage for coke.
He went way way down South-- not North.
joesixpack31| 6.22.10 @ 6:23PM
I would add bvoth Bush's.
sandyinohio| 6.23.10 @ 9:55AM
Documentation please?
amsron| 6.24.10 @ 3:23PM
Exactly...this is the most paranoid piece I've seen here in a while...and that's saying something!
DaveS| 6.22.10 @ 8:47PM
What a Republic we must have, that we have somehow compensated for the Presidents and wannabees listed above.
Dernon Ruton| 6.22.10 @ 9:58PM
Hey, smokehouse! Amen, especially the designation "POS"!
dorothy| 6.23.10 @ 3:06AM
Olly North and those who concocted Irangate were good, wholesome American heros, weren't they - yeah, right. These men sought to undermine the Constitution, the Senate and the Presidency by their extra-curricular activities. Can we have a full-scale blog on these traitors, please?
CNewman| 6.23.10 @ 9:48AM
dorothy,
As usual, your best left wing defense is to throw mud at the other side trying to change the subject and divert attention. You would have people believe that totally unrelated actions by others, somehow justifies crimes committed by your heroes. The actions you refer to have been covered in detail. The information in this article is new. I realize the truth hurts, but don't expect sympathy for your pain. The pain is well deserved.
American Infidel| 6.25.10 @ 11:47AM
AMEN!
RDN in Houston| 6.23.10 @ 10:45AM
Dorthy, you are either grossly uninformed or disingenuous. The Democrat congress, of which Kennedy was a member, cut off funding to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua during the 80's in attempt to shore up Communist dictator Daniel Ortega. Money was diverted from arms sales to Iran to the Contras which effectively was an end-run to Congressional defunding to the Contra rebels. Without the funding, Ortega would have been free to overrun and communize surrounding countries, making South America an even more dangerous place.
I wouldn't expect you to know this if you graduated from college within the last 20 years since so much of the pap that is taught today is worthless leftist propaganda. Yes Virginia, the world is a rotten place and not everyone out there (even our own citizens) loves us.
Guinevere| 6.24.10 @ 2:14PM
Lt. Colonel Oliver North is an American Hero...you Dorothy don't qualify for that designation. And neither do any of your so-called heroes.
George F| 6.24.10 @ 2:23PM
It is so obvious that you prefer to be uninformed so you can believe lies that support your ideology. Why don't you move to Russia where lies support their idiology they are eagerly accepting new residents because they are losing so much of their population.
Mikey| 6.23.10 @ 11:52AM
Couldn't have said it better myself, smokehouse. Well done. The truth is spoken. Notice how they are all Democrats?
Tom Shire| 6.26.10 @ 2:10AM
Unlike George W. Bush, who left it in such wonderful condition?
Let me guess - 'smokehouse' voted for 'W' twice, and probably still has a Bush/Cheney sticker on his pick up.
Wait, no. I bet it says 'Palin 2012' now.
Yeah, she'd be real good for the country. Just like W was.
Don L| 6.22.10 @ 6:33AM
Why stop at Ted. Investigate all of these far left leaning Marxists.
Ret. Marine| 6.22.10 @ 6:57AM
I'll second that motion.
Alan Brooks| 6.22.10 @ 5:38PM
"Don't forget Robert Kennedy was an assistant counsel to McCarthy's committee."
Robert was the best of the lot. I saw him when I was ten, at that really posh playhouse in NYC, can't remember the name of it... you New Yorkers know the one. RFK signed everyone (who asked)'s play bill. The autograph was only a squiggly line, but it made us younguns feel good.
coal carrier| 6.22.10 @ 6:42PM
You are easily impressed. How about Jack & Bobby tag-teaming Marilyn at the Malibu beach house? I’ll bet that made your heart flutter. All while the media was feeding the public with BS about the new Camelot. What a joke. That whole family was and is despicable, from the old man on down.
dorothy| 6.23.10 @ 3:07AM
As long as you investigate all the far right leaning Fascists and Nazis, I second you comments Don L
Dave M. (now in S. Korea)| 6.23.10 @ 5:37AM
Dearest Comrade Dorothy, Who would you like to have investigated? Ollie North, who you referred to in an earlier post, was investigated. So who? Do you know of any other so-called "Fascists and Nazis" in our government who conspired with the KGB? If so, let everyone know about them so we can investigate them. I'd be willing to chip in for the cost of the investigation. Maybe you know someone in the current administration who is conspiring with China, after all Chairman Mao's picture was placed on the White House Christmas tree this past year. Or, maybe we can bring in the Clintons and talk to them about selling missile technology to the Chicoms. I think that would be an interesting investigation. Who do you have in mind Comrade Dotty? Be specific about the charges and please share some substantive evidence. As I said, I'll be glad to chip in.
FTM| 6.24.10 @ 3:40AM
President Clinton is the best president that the Chinese ever bought.
GavInTucson| 6.23.10 @ 11:12PM
There are national socialists on the far right? Do tell, Dorothy. One would have to be a full fledged Bolshevik to consider national socialism (Nazi party) a right wing philosophy.
Ted| 6.24.10 @ 7:41AM
Ah, but my dear, the Fascists and Nazis were leftists...
V. Wright| 6.24.10 @ 5:13PM
Nice try Dot.
If you do your homework you will find that the Nazi's were Leftists. You "progressive" Socialists like to call the right Fascists, and Nazi's because you can't handle the fact that these terms in fact describe you.
cicerone| 6.28.10 @ 4:27PM
The Nazis and Fascists then and today are leftists, socialists. The Nazis belonged to the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSGWP). Please get your basic facts correct and accurate. This is a common and egregious mistake. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party
In fact, the Swastika is a symbol for Socialism.
Melvin| 6.22.10 @ 6:55AM
Oh, come guys, if the FBI did it's damn job then it would ruin the mystique of Camelot.
But noooo. the FBI is running around investigating Right Wing Terrorists, heaven forbid, the real traitors and terrorists reside in all three branches of the government.
As the old saying goes, "Just follow the money." Every single Senator and Congressman eventually has their price. Health Care proved that.
I know this is just wishful thinking. But too bad we couldn't do what the Romans did in the film Spartacus, (old version).
Any politician who is convicted of corruption would be crucified on the Washington Mall for all those to see as an example of what happens when fat fleshy fingers get caught in the money jar.
Norton| 6.23.10 @ 5:41AM
"Follow the $$ is right." Senator Snowe doubled her wealth in 6/06 from 40 to 80 million and I suspect it had to do with her husbands ownership of a company he owned that was bought out by Goldman/Sachs that was the recipient of vast amounts of $$ in the stimulus bills. She was forced to vote for Obama's version or be exposed?
FTM| 6.24.10 @ 3:44AM
The Romans would never have crucified a Senator. Senators convicted of a capitol crime were typically beheaded. In the largest majority off cases Roman Senators that were even accused of a capitol crime, conspiring against the Emperor for example, usually committed suicide by slitting their wrists.
Cruccifixion was reserved for non-citizens and other rabble.
Frank Totino Jr| 6.24.10 @ 2:38PM
If tar and feathers were legalized, there would not be many birds with feathers on them flying in this nation.
They would all be covering over politicians head to toe so we would all know them by their "feathers" wherever they MAY GO! And I would have a special place to place one long peacock feather protruding from!
IF YOU HAVE THE TAR, I WILL SUPPLY THE FEATHERS!
I AM A MASTER TAXIDERMIST BY TRADE!
Ret. Marine| 6.22.10 @ 7:01AM
When was the last time a person in this country was convicted on treason charges? I think it is high time we give this idea another thought, obamma comes immediatley to mind. Providing aid and comfort to the enemy. Nancy piglousy's meeting witht Syrians during the Bush years comes at a close second. Get the investigations started and they will come.
sandyinohio| 6.23.10 @ 10:14AM
Yes; start with the millions sent to Hamas to send Palestinians here to settle!
SC Mike| 6.22.10 @ 7:02AM
It would be fitting and proper to dig up Teddy’s remains in Arlington National Cemetery and ship the casket to Moscow for reburial in Red Square. I’ll provide the shovels and meet anyone else who’s interested at 6:00 tonight.
Melvin| 6.22.10 @ 7:43AM
Nah, Mike sending him back to Moscow is too good for his sorry ass. I say dump his carcass in a sewage treatment plant with the rest of the...you know what I mean.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 6.22.10 @ 7:17AM
His brain was pickled so nothing surprises me except that he was a murderer, and got away with it.
Chuck| 6.23.10 @ 1:17PM
BHO -- He didn't get away with it. Like all of us, He has to stand before the Judge. I suspect he never knew Him during his lifetime. May God have mercy on all of us.
FTM| 6.24.10 @ 3:49AM
Same thought here. Kennedy's little "misfortune" with his pregnant girlfriend, driving the poor girl off of a bridge and then waiting ten hours to call the cops. My star example of the "Just-Us" system out of control. You drive your pregnant girlfriend off a bridge and then wait ten hours to call the cops and you'll never see the light of day again. If you have the Kennedy family fortune behind you you can do as you please, up to and includiing killing people and you get elected to the US Senate. What a country.
Barbara| 6.24.10 @ 1:15PM
Don't forget nephew Willy who raped his date. Or the other nephew who assaulted his kids babysitter.
Brian Mc| 6.22.10 @ 7:22AM
Gee, I wonder if Tunney's twelve trips were on Kennedy's dime?
A government of the people, by the people and for the people, my eye! Since I don't watch MSM, I'll never know whether any (or all of them) ever report on this at the level they chased down those in the know in the wake of the Watergate burglary. Unless, of course, I read of the revelation and muse over it here. I will not hold my breath. Senator and people's fighter, Ted Kennedy, B.I.H.
Rebecca| 6.22.10 @ 7:35AM
It doesn't surprise me. He was a man that left a young woman to die. There is no getting around the fact that it was a testament to his character. He is lucky he was a Kennedy at the time it meant something outside of MA.
Guinevere| 6.24.10 @ 2:23PM
That little mishap at Chappaquidick was sealed so that the truth of what happened would never come out. The Kennedy family bought the Judge that sealed that investigation to protect Teddy. And yet, Teddy tried to blame his cousin for it. I just hope Mary Jo was waiting for him and denied him entry.
Maddox| 6.22.10 @ 7:53AM
More information to help us understand the extent a narcissist politician will go in his quest for power...
and compared to the current ruler of Camelot, Ted was a patriot.
Timothy L. Pennell| 6.22.10 @ 7:57AM
The next REPUBLICAN President should make it his first order of business, to dig this TRAITORS' ROTTING CORPSE out of the Hollowed Ground of Arlington. The idea that this P.O.S. is interned there is a DISGRACE to the Country. If I were running for office, I would make it my #1 Campaign Issue. Get that Drunken, Murdering, TRAITOR out of there.
He'd be better served IMPALED, inside the nearest DUMP.
p.s. THIS is CORPSE, Mr. Marxist, Muslim, America Hating President. Not CORPS.
Another SC*MB*G P.O.S.
mike| 6.23.10 @ 2:37AM
As well as digging Ted's remains up, no doubt you would dig up the bodies of Charles Lindburg and all those who gave aid and comfort to the Nazis during the 1930's and 1940's?
MOS was 71331| 6.25.10 @ 1:02AM
The only "aid and comfort" Lindbergh gave to the Nazis was to be somewhat taken in by their deceptions about the size and capabilities of the Luftwaffe. (The Nazis misrepresented the Luftwaffe as much larger than it really was.) Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Lindbergh was an isolationist, as were most other Americans. FDR wanted the USA to support Britain; most Americans didn't. After the Japanese attack closely followed by Hitler's declaration of war, there were almost no American isolationists left.
La Passioneria| 6.22.10 @ 8:08AM
I'm more interested in Chris Dodd. His father was a "Red-Baiter" yet he's been in bed with every Latin American Red from Castro on. Was he caught in a "honey trap?" or does he hate his father? Jack Kennedy dated a Nazi agent but his father was convinced England would lose.
JP| 6.22.10 @ 8:15AM
Most Progressive Leftists are interesting in only 2 things: money and power. That's it. The Age of Ideology is over. Yes, there are entire gaggles of ideologues ensconsed in tenured chairs of our universities. But, if they had to chose between the barricades and thier pension, they'd chose thier pension every time.
Solo| 6.22.10 @ 8:17AM
Ted Kennedy was a scum-bag.
The left called him the "Liberal Lion of the Senate".
LOL! More like...."The Lying Liberal of the Senate".
Let us remember that the "Term Limits" dialogue re-surfaced years ago SPECIFICALLY because of Ted Kennedy.
It was he and he alone who gave standing evidence to the danger in having a destructive element within government who could not be eradicated with the ballot box.
Once his corrupt political machine in Mass. disassembled upon his death, the people of Mass. promptly gave "his seat" to a republican!
Obviously..prior to that, not even the majority in Mass. could rid themselves of the bastard!
He made a deal with the devil himself during his life in order to gain and hold personal power. Now...let us hope that the debt has come due.
mike| 6.23.10 @ 2:41AM
The junior senator from Mass. promptly gave his vote to the Democrat President at the 1st opportunity - the good folk of Mass didn't vote for a right-winger, they voted for an intelligent conservative who saw that President Obama was right, both in Health Care and Wall St reform.
Babydoc| 6.23.10 @ 3:08AM
Either a troll alert or an incredibly mentally challenged progressive. My vote is for the former.
Kennedy was a traitor, murderer, and marxist sympathizer who deserves zero respect. He should be remembered as so politically impotent outside of the People's Republic of Taxachusetts that he couldn't even beat CARTER for the demonrat ticket in 1980.
Doctor Right| 6.22.10 @ 8:39AM
I'm just glad that this drunken, bloated, lecherous, hyprocrite no longer walks among us.
MOS was 71331| 6.25.10 @ 1:03AM
Amen!
NavyBrat | 6.22.10 @ 8:46AM
What a shock. A commie sympathizer from a family of a Nazi lover. I've heard of the mention of Ted in the Mitrokhin Archive before & read snippets of it, but never the entire archive. One of these days I wil. I think the more interesting story is how Mitrokhin hand copied all of the documents. Stephen Coonts wrote a novel loosely based on the story, but the name of it escapes me now.
As for Ted, I agree with everyone else. Dig his fetid ass up outta Arlington & just throw it in the Potomac. Traitorous bastard!
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague."...Cicero
Describes most Libs quite well.
Forever Marine| 6.22.10 @ 11:57AM
Et tu, Brute. As they say.
darcy| 6.23.10 @ 3:15AM
I've read all of Coonts' books; was it Minotaur? And it's been in just this past year that I read the book with the patient note-taking spy character. Maybe the secrets were Iranian, and in a story set more recently. I just can't remember.
Thanks for the Cicero quote.
Ted Kennedy was a scoundrel of the first order. He had always given me the creeps, just as I'm afraid the man today in the oval does. Total yick.
NavyBrat | 6.23.10 @ 9:33AM
"And it's been in just this past year that I read the book with the patient note-taking spy character."
Darcy, that's the Coonts book I'm talking about. No prob for the Cicero quote too! Cheers!
WRTolkas| 6.22.10 @ 8:51AM
Gentlemen,
There is nothing you could write about the deceased, Swimmer Kennedy, that would surprise me. If someone had photos downloaded on Youtube of Swimmer having carnal knowledge of his maid's cat that wouldn't surprise me.
Anyone who would deal with the Hammer of the Hungarians - Andropov - is now roasting with him in a special place in hell.
Goodbye Swimmer - and good riddance.
And naturally MSM will not pickup on this story. Good riddance to them too.
Daniel| 6.22.10 @ 8:54AM
"Kennedy also blamed the Carter Administration for assuming an overly belligerent posture toward the Soviet Union after the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan"??
I was younger then, but I must have missed seeing any evidence of belligerence on the part of Jimmy Carter toward the USSR. Boycotting the Olympics in 1980 really taught them a lesson, now didn't it?
Anthony| 6.22.10 @ 9:14AM
Dante never created a Canto in Hell that was horrific enough to house Ted Kennedy. Even Dante's imagination could not fathom someone as vile as Ted Kennedy. Hopefully, that situation has been rectified by Lucifer himself.
I remember the nuclear freeze movement well. The anti-Reagan and American disarmament manipulation by the Ds and the MSM were acts of treason. We dodged a big bullet back then, only to be hit between the eyes by Obama.
America can only be lucky for so long, we need to rely less on luck and more on taking action against these traitors.
Joe D| 6.22.10 @ 9:29AM
Don L, SO LET IT BE WRITTEN, SO LET IT BE DONE. And then impeach them all for acts against the constitution they are sworn to up hold.
mike| 6.23.10 @ 2:46AM
I take it you are going to impeach every President since Lincoln for breaking the Constitution? Of course, Irangate was preformed by Republican politicians, which makes them fully constitutional, doesn't it. Let dig the "traitor" Regan up and bury him in a grave of shame.
Babydoc| 6.23.10 @ 3:10AM
Yup...a troll. Not a particularly bright one, either.
Han Fei| 6.22.10 @ 9:32AM
A friend of mine was in the Secret Service back in the 70s. He stood guard at the Soviet Embassy quite often, and would see a limo pull up, Ted Kennedy go in alone, come out three hours later, dead drunk, and be poured back in his limo. Draw your own conclusions.
Ammo Guy| 6.22.10 @ 9:46AM
Teddy probably knew that Beria used to drive around Moscow looking for young girls to rape and thought he might qualify for a piece of that action himself if he started hanging out with those guys…a lot simpler than driving off a bridge.
Old Joe| 6.22.10 @ 10:03AM
It is great to finally see this information come to light and it is amazing that the intellectuals, learned politicians, and media are finally catching on to what every South Carolina redneck knew in their heart and proclaimed to all who would listen 40 years ago that the Kennedys were commie pigs.
mike| 6.23.10 @ 2:49AM
As the inhabitant of the state that caused the Civil War, and tried very hard to provoke another in 1832, South Carolina rednecks has so much to be proud of.
Marie Buckno| 6.24.10 @ 2:26PM
MY IRISH CATHOLIC WWII VET FATHER WAS A REAL CATHOLIC WHO NEVER DIVORCED HIS WIFE AND NEVER CHEATED ON MY MOTHER AND WHO VOLUNTEERED DURING WWII WHILE DISABLED AND THE SECOND SON OF A FATHERLESS FAMILY TO SERVE THIS NATION WITH HIS "BRAINS" BY INSTRUCTING OUR DOMESTIC SOLDIERS IN RADAR DETECTION SKILLS!
HE CAME FROM NORTHERN IRELAND NOT THE MIDDLE PART WHERE THE PROD CATHOLICS LIKE KENNEDY AND REAGAN AND THE CLINTON HALE FROM!
HE WAS A REAL CATHOLIC WWII HERO AND WOULD BE YOUR PRESIDENT HAD HIS LIFE NOT BEEN THREATENED CAUSING HIS EARLY DEATH IN 2003!
AS HIS ELDEST DAUGHTER WITH A BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE AND BONA FIDE BIRTH CERTIFICATE AS WELL AS WORK EXPERIENCE AND ETHICS I HAVE TOLD EVERYONE SINCE BUSH TOOK OFFICE THE FIRST TIME "IT IS ALL BACKWARDS AND CORRUPTED" AND IF "I" WERE IN LEADERSHIP I WAS TAUGHT AND EDUCATED WHAT REAL "LOYALTY" MEANS!
FROM MY FRATERNAL IRISH ROOTS IN ARMAGH TO OUR NATION TODAY I STAND NOT GUILTY OF CRIME! NEVER USED DRUGS AND KNOW ALL ABOUT LAW AND POLITICS!
"TREAD SOFTLY ON MY DREAMS" THE ROBERT EMMETT STORY AND "THE WAR OF 1812" ARE JUST TWO OF THE BOOKS "NONE OF OUR PROTESTANT COMPROMISING WARRING PRESIDENTS HAVE!
As Saint Thomas More so aptly stated, "many are schooled but FEW are EDUCATED."
Marie Buckno| 6.24.10 @ 2:16PM
Yes and my IRISH CATHOLIC WWII DECORATED FAMILY WAS RIGHT TO PREACH 'if they are PRODS, they are COMMIES!"
ANY DIVORCED MAN IS A COMMIE AND ANY SUPPOSED CHRISTIAN THAT FOLLOWED THE MAN MADE RELIGION OF A FORNICATING KING HENRY VIII WHO KILLED OFF HIS CATHOLIC BARRISTERS TO BE RID OF TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS ARE ALSO
FULL FLEDGED NON REAL CHRISTIAN COMMUNISTS AS WELL!!!!
DIVORCE IS TERRORISM IN THE CATHOLIC FULL BIBLE THE ONE WITH ALL THE BOOKS THAT THE KING JAMES LEAVES OUT!
pig hater| 9.27.10 @ 6:43PM
coming from someone divorced TWICE and oh by the way collects weekly payments from the man who molested its daughter for 18 years as hush money so he won't be put in jail AND lies - i mean lives off a divorced man, scams every system possible and sues everyone/thing that comes in it's path AND whose father was a DRUNK
R Martin| 6.22.10 @ 10:06AM
The entire Kennedy political dynasty was built on image, a grossly false image as it turned out. From Papa Joe's overt purchase of the critical 1960 West Virginia primary for JFK to Bobby's truly nasty character veiled as gentleness and, of course, including Teddy's complete mediocrity the image was, in part, created by but certainly promoted through the media. We still suffer from it all today.
Unfortunately the same thing is happening again with Obama, his policies and his minions, all potentially much more damaging to the country than the Kennedy power grab. Let's hope we're not in a fool me twice situation here.
ricky| 6.22.10 @ 11:46AM
So, a communist kills his brother, and he continues his treason with them!
What is it about Democrats? Treason is their highest value, higher than family!
mike| 6.23.10 @ 2:52AM
Republican isolationists constitute the greatest threat to the US - they want to retreat into their shells and ignore the rest of the world. That, my friends, is the greatest treason to the present world as we know it. They would retreat from Afghanistan and open the world to Al Queda - what treachery.
Babydoc| 6.23.10 @ 3:15AM
Stop drinking your bongwater, Mike, and remember that the scumbag currently befouling the Oval Office refused to send the requested number of troops that his appointed commanding general asked for to accomplish in Afghanistan what we accomplished in Iraq. Those of us in the military don't care for Obama - but we know he is going to be voted out of office NLT 2012. We are confident that the American voters will elect someone competent this time, just like they did after Carter screwed things up with his leftarded pseudothinking.
Oldefarte| 6.22.10 @ 11:52AM
Excellent article, Kevin. Thanks. This Kennedy political action is yet another in a long line of dispicable liberalism by this rogue family [incorrectly labeled America's First Family by their brainwashed liberal friends, associates,etc]. His thought process can later be seen in Bill Clinton's [and now Barack Obama's] administrations dedication to reducing needed missle numbers and decrease in military spending!!!!
somnolence| 6.22.10 @ 12:47PM
Ultimately a lot of blame falls upon the stubborn voters in Massachusetts when they decided to keep returning Kennedy to the Senate again and again. And don't try to tell me the majority were brainwashed, either.
mike| 6.23.10 @ 2:54AM
As I've said previously, the Junior Senator from Massachusetts voted with the President on the two key issues of the moment. Proof that the Bay State votes for intelligent conservatives, not red-necked good ol' boys
Guinevere| 6.24.10 @ 2:35PM
Kennedy was NEVER a conservative. And he was not the Junior Senator from MA he was the Senior. Unfortunately for MA he overstayed his welcome and should have been gone the year he killed Mary Jo Kopechne!
WWWebb| 6.24.10 @ 3:53PM
I believe the poster is referring to Scott Brown. Re-read what he says.
ojo grande| 6.22.10 @ 1:40PM
Kennedy's treason continues as he rots in Arlington Cemetary among the very soldiers that died defending an America he sought to destroy.
We'll never know the secrets that a drunk, lascivious Kennedy told the KGB and the damage it did....how many CIA spys died because of his drunken, loose lips.
Unfortunately, Americans will have to live with the damage that Kennedy wreaked in his drive to Socialize/Communize the US. We now have Obamacare which, in reality should be called Kennedycare.
This treasonous creep wounded this country while living the luxurious life of an undeserved respected Senator...let's hope our eyes have been opened to what Kennedy and his far-left, Commie loving cronies have been up to all these many years.
I doubt anyone will ever throw Kennedy's treasonous body out of Arlington...but let's hope a few patriots will feel the need to relieve their bladders when they next visit his hallowed gravesite.
Taxpayer| 6.22.10 @ 11:06PM
Excellent idea!
steve| 6.23.10 @ 2:57AM
The Allies nearly lost the North Africa campaign in WW2 because Col. Fellows sent fully detailed British plans using the Grey code, a code the Germans had fully broken. Using the above logic, we should dig up Col. Fellows and castigate him for "loose lips"
Asinine Catcher| 6.23.10 @ 12:05PM
Of all the ludicrous comments, this one has to be #1. Col. Fellows logistical mistake is apples to Teddy's purposefully treasonous oranges. Unless Fellows got drunk and screwed around with teenaged girls while cavorting with the Gestapo. If that's the case, then throw his arse out of Arlington too, but somehow I doubt Fellows was as insidious as old Ted, my he R.I.H.
KyMouse| 6.22.10 @ 1:46PM
"With the media now reporting on the late senator's just released Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file..."
Now reporting? Just released? So not only the mainstream new media but also the FBI deliberately sat on this until Ted was cold? I think we should ponder that as much as we ponder Ted's loathesome duplicity.
Northern Rebel| 6.22.10 @ 1:53PM
Change the name Kennedy, to Obama, and change the name Andropov, to George Soros, and the pattern of betraying and undermining The United States of America continues unabated, and better organized.
It is called treason.
dorothy| 6.23.10 @ 3:00AM
Americans of the 1930s thought nothing of pandering to the Fascists and Nazis - some of America's biggest companies aided and abetted these monsters. Such treachery goes unreported and uncommented on - why? Does such sentiment still exist - makes you wonder
JmsA| 6.22.10 @ 4:00PM
There is a memo dated May 14, 1983 from the former head of the KGB, Victor Chebrikov to his superior, Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov. This memo allegedly contained a confidential offer to the Soviet leadership by Ted Kennedy targeting President Ronald Reagan. Kennedy is thus purported to have expressed his concern about deteriorating U.S.-Soviet relations because of President Reagan's belligerence, i.e., the latter’s stubbornness in refusing to modify his policies vis-à-vis the Soviet Union. Kennedy’s self-serving entreaties seemingly based on his hopes that President Reagan's bid for re-election in 1984 could be only be damaged relative to President Reagan’s supposed militaristic politics, Kennedy suggested a meeting take place with himself and Andropov, to provide the Soviets with explanations, if not tactics, regarding nuclear disarmament negotiations. This in essence was to ensure the Soviets would be better prepared and more convincing during any appearances in the U.S., including his then suggested series of televised interviews, to make a direct appeal to the American people with the help of media elitists such a Walter Cronkike and Barbara Walters. Concluding thus the Soviets needed public relations help given President Reagan’s popularity particularly in relation to Soviets’ “Evil Empire,” Kennedy’s intent was to flood the American media with appearances not only from high-level Politburo figures, but also the Soviet military, expressing the peaceful intentions of the USSR to end the threat of nuclear war, improve Soviet-American relations, and define the safety for the world. Such actions by Kennedy clearly belie the commonly held views, particularly by the mainstream media of his working-hand-in-hand with President Reagan, whereas in fact, Kennedy believed Reagan to be nothing more than aggressive militarist, and worse. His then underscoring his entreaty by how eagerly he awaited a reply to his appeal, it should be also mentioned that Kennedy appears to have also engaged in such shenanigans during the Carter presidency. Yet, the media, negligent and subservient to its leftist masters, and not reporting any of the above, unceasingly engaged in lionizing Good ol’ Teddy all the way to his grave. Some hero, indeed!
JmsA| 6.22.10 @ 11:37PM
Apologies to all readers and posters; I failed my due diligence to read Mr. Mooney's entire essay prior to submitting my obviously redundant comments.
Bruce | 6.22.10 @ 5:42PM
I guess I should not be surprised by this, coming from a family built and made wealthy from criminal activities, then treason against the US in WWII and afterwords. But I do admit to being somewhat at a loss for words to describe my feelings of hate against this scumbag. That has to be a first to me - since I had a drink and went out dancing when I learned of his death. Also a first for me.
GET THIS PRICKS BONES OUT OF ARLINGTON! He has no place among heroes!
Tim*| 6.22.10 @ 6:01PM
Kennedy undermined U.S. National Interests and needs to be exposed .
Richard Baker| 6.22.10 @ 6:03PM
Shame that he couldn't catch a bullet and that Jack and Bobby did. Traitor, thy name is Ted Kennedy. The Lion of the Senate? What a joke.
Dorothy| 6.23.10 @ 3:02AM
Charles Lindburgh, Charles Coghlin, Hugie Long - thy names are traitors. Good ol' right wing traitors rule. OK!
Joe| 6.23.10 @ 4:11PM
Your knowledge of history leaves much to be desired, but is not surprising given your political leanings. Huey Long was a leftist/populist. He proposed the nationalization of companies, a cap on personal earnings, and other leftist programs popular in the 30s.
Barbara| 6.24.10 @ 1:24PM
Do you think it is to much to hope the files showing FDR and Churchill knew Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked? To show that Kimmel and Short were kept in the dark.
bernardo| 6.22.10 @ 6:04PM
So now we have evidence that this scoundrel was guilty of treason in addition to (at the least) negligent manslaughter. It’s not too surprising, disgusting but not surprising.
He is dead, but some of his associates and collaborators are still alive. If the Repubs take back the House and/or Senate in November, there should be investigations that would make Waxman look polite by comparison.
Liz| 6.22.10 @ 8:18PM
Proud of you for this article. I am not at all surprised by this revelation. He is not the sole traitor in congress. I am absolutely thrilled that "Pelosi" , "Reid", and all the other Socialists had to pass the health care bill for "Teddy" ...he was such a good American. He would have turned his own mother over to the KGB if it would have been to his benefit. I did not lament his death, even before I read this article; one less reptile vote in congress. Now, please use your skills to expose the ones residing in our White House.
FedUpToHere| 6.22.10 @ 8:40PM
The people of Massachusetts should hang their heads in shame for voting this power mad traitor into our senate for so many years.Your redemption began with the election of senator Brown.
steve| 6.23.10 @ 3:03AM
Who, as you fail to mention, voted with the Democrats and for Obama
sandyinohio| 6.23.10 @ 10:34AM
Oh knock it off! He sometimes voted with the Dems, not always!
slowandsteady| 6.22.10 @ 9:21PM
I'm shocked! But in a way I'm not. I think there are many more just like him. They've stormed the castle and are inside the walls!
somnolence| 6.22.10 @ 9:43PM
I have yet to hear this reported on any radio or television news affiliate today, including Fox. Has anyone heard this being reported? Meanwhile the confiscator - in- chief meanders in his diabolical ways.
Taxpayer| 6.22.10 @ 11:14PM
Didn't Lancelot do King Arthur's wife, which sparked the war that ended Camelot and led to King Arthur's death?
Hmmmmm..... Maybe that "Camelot" comparison was a bit more accurate than once thought....
somnolence| 6.23.10 @ 9:23AM
Ann Coulter, I hope you trumpet this story in the coming days at every opportunity, on every network show on which you appear. The silence is deafening.
Trialdog| 6.23.10 @ 11:14AM
Repubicans need to introduce a bill entitled the Ted Kennedy Protection of America Act. It should allow the U.S. to calculate the damage caused by subversive, illegal or treasonous activity involving foreign relations, which is discovered after death, and permit the seizure of assets from the decedent's estate to cover the damages. The U.S. having first priority to the assets, of course, and being allowed to seize same from those who have already wrongfully received anything of value from the estate.
Yes, we can.
Northern Rebel| 6.23.10 @ 2:18PM
Dorothy:
Does the tinfoil hat make your head itch?
Proud Mormon| 6.23.10 @ 3:44PM
Forget about Ted...Romney for President in 2012.
French| 6.23.10 @ 4:40PM
In the photo above Tunney and Kennedy look gay together.
Howard| 6.23.10 @ 5:24PM
Ted was a fat, drunken bastard who only got far because of his family name and money. He was the "liberal lion", who never met a tax he didn't like. He is also the "father" of the ObamaCare nightmare that will soon bankrupt the country. No surprise that he was helping the KGB. This was around the time of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the shooting down of the Korean airliner. Ted had strange bedfellows.
Robert| 6.23.10 @ 5:35PM
Ted Kennedy is dead, along with all the other members of "Camelot".
Let there be great rejoicing!
Cris| 6.23.10 @ 6:56PM
Give Ted some credit. It's been almost a year since he had his last drink.
Wilfred| 6.23.10 @ 8:43PM
For years I have suspected the mainstream press was being manipulated by our nation's enemies. Or were sympathetic towards our nation's enemies, and were trying to manipulate us.
Now we know the truth: a little of both.
Tony in Central PA| 6.23.10 @ 9:21PM
Kennedy appears to have been a Quisling.
What a surprise.
CW| 6.24.10 @ 1:47PM
You can follow this trail up to today. Check out the backgrounds of President Obamas czars. It's riddled with communist and anti American people. America had better WAKE UP.
somnolence| 6.24.10 @ 5:55PM
I still haven't heard a word about this on Glenn Beck's show or Bill O'Reilly's show. Beck continues to focus on Woodrow Wilson, who indeed, was an appeaser for the fast wheels set in motion commencing in 1917. The Treaty Of Brest-Litovsk didn't do anything to alleviate the Bolshevik mind-set however. Wilson was rather passive, or indeed, neutral on that issue. Glenn, address the more current "traveler," the lately deceased Teddy-boy, please.
S Ralston| 6.24.10 @ 10:22PM
What disturbs me most are the lives & limbs lost and the psychological damages our troops suffered. Human beings died serving their nation & expecting our elected leaders (sic) to do what was best for the nation they represented & to live up to their obligations to the constitution, the rule of law, and the safety & welfare of the American people. What I read here sickens me. It also causes me to suspect those taking actions today that sure look like the globalist movement we were all told was just crazy conspiracy theory stuff from nut jobs, may very well be happening & may have been happening all along.
Do we have Americans actually working to destroy America, turn this nation over to the one world government or governance order, that would rule the world through or by the unelected bureaucrats of the United Nations?
We see today that the UN is decidedly anti-America. They despise capitalism, even though our current crisis was enabled by imposition of socialist policies within our system that undermined the ability of the free market & financial system to overcome the burdens of socialist polices that are economically unsustainable.
Actions such as these & such as many I now suspect are in diametric opposition to the concepts of individual freedoms & liberty, make me sick. If we do not enforce our laws against such actions, we are fools. Firing squads could be used improperly. But, the damages done by people like this could destroy an entire nation of free people that all in the world look to to uphold the ideals of freedom.
MTank50 | 6.25.10 @ 8:36AM
Excuse me... isn't that Mary Jo sitting in the car behind Teddy and his buddy?
MTank50 | 6.25.10 @ 8:58AM
Oh, and one more thing... Dorothy, OZ is calling.
Occam's Tool| 2.15.11 @ 11:45AM
Ted's a scumbag. Surprise, surprise.
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