[...]Its author, Paul Kengor, unearthed a sensational document from the Soviet archives. That document is a memo regarding an offer made by Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts via former Senator John Tunney, both Democrats, to the General Secretary of the Communist Party, USSR, Yuri Andropov, in 1983. The offer was to help the Soviet leadership, military and civilian, conduct a PR campaign in the United States as President Ronald Reagan sought re-election. The goal of the PR campaign would be to cast President Reagan as a warmonger, the Soviets as willing to peacefully co-exist, and thereby turn the electorate away from Reagan. It was a plan to enlist Soviet help, and use the American press, in unseating an American president.
Un-fucking-real.
I don’t expect the press to pursue this. Verification is needed. If any aspect is true,at the very least he needs to expelled from the Senate. If it can all be verified…prosecute him for treason.
Update: An interesting related post by Dr Sanity
Update: More at HotAir.
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Hi P.
I’m usually the first in line to kick Senator Kennedy in the groin, rhetorically speaking, but having looked at my share of documents from this period, American as well as Soviet, I would treat this one with caution until we get independent confirmation of authenticity. It certainly merits investigating though.
The Soviets had reached a point in the early 80’s where they were burning themselves with their own disinformation campaigns with the KGB foreign intel guys reporting back home the crap that the KGB special tasks department were spreading overseas. This was done partly out of ignorance ( compartmentilization left them in the dark) and partly out of fear – a certain “line” had to be towed in cables to fit the Politburo’s expectations, even in intel reporting.
By: mark safranski on October 22, 2006
at 11:05 am
I hope it is not true.
By: purpleslog on October 22, 2006
at 12:52 pm