Ted Kennedy’s Private Foreign Policy
12 November 2006According to CNSNews, during the 1980s, Ted Kennedy undertook his own private foreign policy with the Soviet Union. Beginning in 1980, while Carter was still President and Kennedy was seeking the Democrat nomination, Kennedy determined that “the Carter administration had assumed an overly belligerent posture toward the Soviet Union after the invasion of Afghanistan.”
In Kennedy’s view, “the atmosphere of tension and hostility towards the whole Soviet people was being fuelled by Carter” as well as by some key advisors, the Pentagon and the U.S. military industrial complex.
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While Soviet troops occupied Afghanistan in 1980, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) worked in close concert with high level Kremlin officials to alter the direction of U.S. policy, according to documents made available through a KGB defector.
This information come to light through Soviet defector Vasiliy Mitrokhin who defected to Britain in 1992. “The Mitrokhin papers highlight a meeting that took place at the behest of Kennedy between former Sen. John Tunney (D-Calif.) and KGB agents in Moscow on March 5, 1980.”
Mitrokhin filed a report with the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. which revealed the details of Kennedy’s actions during the 1980s. Kennedy attempted to undermine the foreign policy of both the Carter and Reagan administrations.
According to Charles Dunn, dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University:
The secret overtures to the KGB during the Reagan years were particularly insidious, Dunn said, because Tunney and Kennedy were working to undermine what ultimately proved to be a very successful policy that brought an end to the Cold War.
“If another country gets the idea that it can deal outside of official channels then that undermines presidential leadership,” he said.
Dunn went on to say that Kennedy’s activities were a “clear violation of the U.S. Constitution and at the expense of presidential authority.”
Paul Kengor, author of The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism
The question now is, will anyone in a position of authority take any action based on these revelations? Or is Kennedy, for all intents and purposes, bullet proof? With Democrats having gained control of both houses of Congress, I wouldn’t hold my breath. Of course, there is little reason to suspect Republicans would pursue this had they retained control because of the perceived political price it might cost them. Is it too much to ask that our elected leaders take justice and the law seriously? Is it to much to ask for those who work against this country’s best interest to pay for their illegal actions? Perhaps it is.
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