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Defend America on Monday, August 31, 2009 7:07:33 PM
Man Friday
Ted Kennedy's Soviet Gambit
Peter Robinson,
08.28.09, 12:01 AM EDT
Considering the late senator's complete record requires digging into the USSR's archives.
Picking
his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown
open, in 1991 Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London
Times,
came across an arresting memorandum. Composed in 1983 by Victor
Chebrikov, the top man at the KGB, the memorandum was addressed to Yuri
Andropov, the top man in the entire USSR. The subject: Sen. Edward
Kennedy.
"On 9-10 May of this year," the May 14 memorandum
explained, "Sen. Edward Kennedy's close friend and trusted confidant
[John] Tunney was in Moscow." (Tunney was Kennedy's law school roommate
and a former Democratic senator from California.) "The senator charged
Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts,
to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov."
Kennedy's
message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy
would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return,
the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging
Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. "The only real potential
threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American
relations," the memorandum stated. "These issues, according to the
senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election
campaign."
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/27/ted-kennedy-soviet-union-ronald-reagan-opinions-columnists-peter-robinson.html