Kennedy-Andropov Co-op to Unseat Reagan?
by Gribbit
Well Well Well
It seems that Mr. Kennedy of Mass was conspiring in 1983 to assist the Soviets in discrediting then President Ronald Wilson Reagan and disrupting his chances to win a 2nd term.
In a report on Cybercast News Service it is revealed that Senator Kennedy reached out to then Central Committee Chairman Yuri Andropov via then Senator John Tunney with an offer to influence the 1984 election. The offer was to assist the Soviets in formulating a public relations strategy to counter President Reagan.
“We see some of the same sentiments today, in that some Democrats see the Republican president as being a threat and the true obstacle to peace, instead of seeing our enemies as the true danger,” said Paul Kengor, a political science professor at Grove City College and the author of new book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism.
In his book, which came out this week, Kengor focuses on a KGB letter written at the height of the Cold War that shows that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) offered to assist Soviet leaders in formulating a public relations strategy to counter President Reagan’s foreign policy and to complicate his re-election efforts.
In his letter (dated May 14, 1983), KGB head Viktor Chebrikov offered Andropov his interpretation of Kennedy’s offer. Former U.S. Sen. John Tunney (D-Calif.) had traveled to Moscow on behalf of Kennedy to seek out a partnership with Andropov and other Soviet officials, Kengor claims in his book.
At one point after President Reagan left office, Tunney acknowledged that he had played the role of intermediary, not only for Kennedy but for other U.S. senators, Kengor said. Moreover, Tunney told the London Times that he had made 15 separate trips to Moscow.
So there we have it folks, it should be no surprise that the Dems are so willing to claim that captured terrorists are innocent and attempt to extend to them rights in US courts, Kennedy and the others have a track record co assisting our enemies. After all, didn’t Bill Clinton visit the former Soviet Union?
Kennedy proposed that Andropov make a direct appeal to the American people in a series of television interviews that would be organized in August and September of 1983, according to the letter.
“Tunney told his contacts that Kennedy was very troubled about the decline in U.S -Soviet relations under Reagan,” Kengor said. “But Kennedy attributed this decline to Reagan, not to the Soviets. In one of the most striking parts of this letter, Kennedy is said to be very impressed with Andropov and other Soviet leaders.”
In Kennedy’s view, the main reason for the antagonism between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1980s was Reagan’s unwillingness to yield on plans to deploy middle-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe, the KGB chief wrote in his letter.
“Kennedy was afraid that Reagan was leading the world into a nuclear war,” Kengor said. “He hoped to counter Reagan’s polices, and by extension hurt his re-election prospects.”
First he drives a car off a bridge and leaves a young woman in the car to die while he returned to his room to sober up thus allowing the woman to die. Then he conspires with the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War in an attempt to derail the re-election campaign of a successful President. Now who wants to say with a straight face that Kennedy has the best interests of America and Americans in mind?
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