Details continue to emerge from Kremlin archives on how Ted Kennedy attempted to undermine U.S. foreign policy through secret contacts with our Cold War enemies, the Soviet Union. It wasn't just the foreign policy of the ("Evil Empire") Republican administration under Ronald Reagan that Kennedy deemed too harsh. He thought Jimmy Carter's response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was too tough, (no, seriously) and had coordinated his criticism of Carter with the Soviets in advance. It looks like Yuri Andropov didn't take Kennedy seriously, but apparently Gorbachev found him to be a useful idiot. Much more in Vladimir Bukovsky and Pavel Stroilov's report at NRO.
Posted by dan at November 28, 2006 11:12 AM