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... and suggests a variety of steps that Soviet leaders might take to hinder Reagan's re-election the following year. A copy of the "Chebrikov memo" was published in The Crusader, a book written by Paul Kengor; Kengor teaches at Grove City College, an academy of wingnuttery that has been under continuous AAUP censure since 1963 for violations of academic freedom. The memo's provenance is predictably sketchy, having been delivered to Kengor by a right-wing Ukrainian activist (and "reader of FrontPage Magazine") before being vetted and "authenticated" by ...
Ted Kennedy Goes Behind Ronald Reagan’s Back to the KGB
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... to partake in the election campaign of 1984, his speeches would be taken without prejudice as they are not tied to any campaign promises. Tunney remarked that the senator wants to run for president in 1988. At that time, he will be 56 and his personal problems, which could hinder his standing, will be resolved (Kennedy has just completed a divorce and plans to remarry in the near future).
Is the letter authentic? The author of the book has this to say:
In my book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the ...
Dear Yuri,
Cold Fury —
... his evil ways and learn to love us. … We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now in slavery behind the Iron Curtain, “Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with your slave-masters”.”–Ronald Reagan, 1964 Via Sweetness and Light, the head of the KGB discusses Ted Kennedy’s offer of collaboration with Chairman Yuri Andropov: : SPECIAL IMPORTANCE Committee on State Security [KGB] of the USSR 14.05. 1983 No. ...
DANGEROUS LIAISONS: TEDDY KENNEDY'S COLLABORATION WITH THE KGB
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
... 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. MORE ON TEDDY'S DANGEROUS LIAISONS WITH THE KGB HERE AND HERE AND HERE. THE BEST THING TEDDY EVER DID WAS CHALLENGE JIMMY CARTER IN THE ...
