In the spring of 1983, during perhaps the tensest moment in the Cold War since the Cuban missile crisis—having called the Soviet Union the evil empire that it was, Reagan was preparing to deploy Pershing missiles in Europe—Kennedy sent a message to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov. This would be the same Yuri Andropov who had been the director of the KGB and had played central roles in both the crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the suppression of the 1968 Prague Spring. Arguing that Reagan, not Andropov, threatened world peace, Kennedy offered to help Anropov contain Reagan by manipulating American opinion.As a typical lefty, Kennedy was always more sympathetic to our enemies than to his own country.
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Dear Rick,
You forgot to mention that Andropov was head of the KGB and thru their proxies, the Bulgarians, tried to murder Pope John Paul II by using an ultra-rightist Turkish man, Mehmet Ali Agca.
I guess that must be the mainstream media conservatives miss, as it was the New York Times, thru their 1980's nutter Claire Sterling and NBC with Marvin Kalb was pushing that crap.
(ABC was on the skeptical side, especially thru the reporting of Kent Jarrell. They also had Sterling debate Alex Cockburn on Nightline. halfway thru, Claire was pulling her hair and flustered beyond belief).
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