Sen. Ted Kennedy: Friend of the Soviets?
Saturday, October 21st, 2006First we learned John Kerry undermined our efforts in Vietnam by collaborating with the North Vietnamese. Now we learn that his buddy, Edward Kennedy, may have offered his help to the Soviets at the height of the Cold War:
Romerstein, a former House intelligence committee staffer and a researcher of Soviet archives, uncovered numerous documents suggesting that Ted Kennedy was a “collaborationist” with the Soviets during our Cold War. Romerstein also co-authored, along with Eric Breindel, the highly praised “Verona Secrets, Exposing Soviet Espionage and America’s Traitors.”
According to Romerstein, a review of Soviet Communist Party archives offers an unflattering view of Kennedy. Some of the documents that have come to light since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 include claims that:
Sometime in 1978, Kennedy requested the KGB’s assistance to set up a relationship between the Soviets and a firm owned by former Sen. John Tunney, D-Calif. Again, on March 5, 1980, Tunney, acting as Kennedy’s liaison, met with KGB agents in Moscow. During that meeting, Tunney articulated Kennedy’s position that “nonsense about ‘the Soviet military threat’ and Soviet ambitions for military expansion in the Persian Gulf … was being fueled by [President Jimmy] Carter, [National Security Advisor Zbigniew] Brzezinski, the Pentagon and the military industrial complex.” Kennedy, according to the documents, offered to speak out against President Carter on Afghanistan.
You can read more about it at Ace of Spades HQ.
And this is the party that wants to lead America? Are you friggin’ kidding me?
This just goes to show that some liberals (some, not all) are blowing smoke out of their behinds with their whole, “Attack the war, but support the troops” nonsense. These people have no will to stand up to tyranny; quite to the contrary, they offer their help to our Communist enemies.
UPDATE: RedState has more.