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Remember when Ted Kennedy asked the Soviets for help defeating Reagan?
By Thomas Lifson
The Democrats are desperately diverting attention away from their rigging
the nomination fight by charging that Russia is interfering in our election.
But there was a time when going to Moscow to help defeat the other party
didn’t seem to disturb Democrats. In fact, with the help of friendly media,
the entire incident has been sent to the memory hole. Once upon a time it
was revealed, but nobody outside of the conservative ghetto remembers.
But Betsy Newmark of Betsy’s Page remembers: (hat tip: Instapundit):
As the Democrats struggle to turn the story of the DNC hacks into an
attack on Trump by arguing that the Russians are behind the hack and that
Putin is trying to help Trump get elected, let's remember when a prominent
Democrat actually went to the Soviets for help in defeating Reagan. In 1984
Ted Kennedy approached the Soviets who were then led by the former KGB head,
Yuri Andropov, and tried to negotiate help in opposing Reagan. We found out
about Kennedy's efforts when Yeltsin opened up the Soviet archives in 1991.
Sean Davis links to the story as reported in Forbes.
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.”
This is open, self-initiated collaboration with a rival power, and there’s
a name for that sort of thing, “treason.” But that word is not associated
with any Kennedy (at least not since Joe was Ambassador to the UK) because
of the studious ignoring of the story coming from the Soviet archives.
Compared this reliable evidence, the case against Trump is made of air. We
don’t know who did the hacking, and the bits of code that supposedly
incriminate the Russians could well be a false flag operation, as argued by
intelligence expert Michael Ledeen. There is no evidence at all of any Trump
business in Russia, and he has denied having any investments there. There
is, in other words, nothing to connect Trump to the leaks, much less to
Russia.
The amount of attention paid to the non-evidence of Trump versus the
studied avoidance of the conclusive evidence of Ted Kennedy soliciting enemy
collaboration against a domestic political rival is the epitome of our
propaganda media.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/07/remember_when_ted_kennedy_asked_the_soviets_for_help_defeating_reagan.html#ixzz4Fco0h4n8 | g********2
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