Remembering Ted Kennedy . . . Soviet Style

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Ted Kennedy's Soviet Gambit
Peter Robinson, 08.28.09, 12:01 AM EDT
Considering the late senator's complete record requires digging into the USSR's archives.

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." MORE: http://tinyurl.com/mqpnzpSphere: Related Content

Violating the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948?

Files Prove Pentagon is Profiling Reporters | Stars and Stripes

Here's what you need to know: “It’s troubling that the military is contracting a private PR firm, paid with U.S. taxpayer dollars, to profile individual reporters,” said one servicemember who declined to be identified for fear of official retribution. “It shows utter contempt for the Constitution, which we in the service pledge our lives to defend.”

These guys are an embarrassment to our national security & continue to play weird little (self-dealing) games in that dangerous intersection where "information operations," PsyOps and Public Affairs intersect. There's a law governing how this sort of stuff is done. We really don't want the military/government propagandizing our own citizens. Really, we don't!

I understand that Rendon was dumped by the CIA under a cloud years ago -- & then wandered down the George Washington Parkway to peddle their schtick at the Pentagon. Judicial Watch obtained US Navy documents detailing Rendon's involvement in trying to influence the outcome of a public vote on the Vieques bombing range. Now, that's "creepy" -- the Navy hires a PR firm to run an influence campaign attempting to alter the outcome of a public vote? I'm eagerly awaiting any legal challenge to Rendon's (or other's) "information" efforts. It's very encouraging that Stars & Stripes had the courage to print this article.

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The CIA Reports Cheney Wanted Released

Judicial Watch Obtains New CIA Documents Detailing Results of Detainee Interrogations

and,

the Washington Times explains the Obama Adminitration's position:

Obama vs. CIA

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How Many More "Agents Provocateur" are the FBI Currently Running?

Comment from "Subversion & Espionage" Blogger: I am not now, nor have I ever been, a recruited asset of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. At least I don't think so.

Attorney: FBI Trained NJ Blogger to Incite Others

Aug 18 03:51 PM US/Eastern
By KATIE NELSON
Associated Press Writer

EXCERPT: HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A New Jersey blogger facing charges in two states for allegedly making threats against lawmakers and judges was trained by the FBI on how to be deliberately provocative, his attorney said Tuesday.

Hal Turner worked for the FBI from 2002 to 2007 as an "agent provocateur" and was taught by the agency "what he could say that wouldn't be crossing the line," defense attorney Michael Orozco said.

"His job was basically to publish information which would cause other parties to act in a manner which would lead to their arrest," Orozco said.

Prosecutors have acknowledged that Turner was an informant who spied on radical right-wing organizations, but the defense has said Turner was not working for the FBI when he allegedly made threats against Connecticut legislators and wrote that three federal judges in Illinois deserved to die.Sphere: Related Content

Meanwhile, back @ Fort Lewis . . .

The Modern Day "Garden Plot" Saga Continues to Unfold:

Army Investigates Fort Lewis Employee Accused of Infiltrating Olympia Anti-war Group
GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
4:21 PM PDT, August 6, 2009

EXCERPT: SEATTLE (AP) — The Army is investigating an anti-war group's claim that it was infiltrated by a civilian employee of Fort Lewis in violation of federal law barring the Army from conducting domestic law enforcement.

John J. Towery, a criminal intelligence analyst for the post's Force Protection Division, attended meetings and protests and administered an e-mail list for the Olympia Port Militarization Resistance group over the past two years, members of the anti-war group said.

The members said Towery identified himself as an anarchist named "John Jacob," and they learned his true identity after receiving documents from the city of Olympia under a public disclosure request.Sphere: Related Content

The Point Where You Can't Let the Cartels Win -- No Matter What

Mexican Officials Defend Drug War Strategy as Deaths Rise |
Dallas Morning News
By ALFREDO CORCHADO / The Dallas Morning News
acorchado@dallasnews.com

EXCERPT: CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico – As the drug war's bloodiest month ever in this border city ended, the administration of President Felipe Calderón defended its strategy for battling powerful drug cartels but signaled that it will make adjustments as needed.

In a visit to Ciudad Juárez last week, Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez Mont said the administration is considering adjustments to the strategy – which relies on the deployment of thousands of soldiers and federal police agents – but insisted that any shift would come in response to a change in tactics by the cartels.

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