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==Allegations of Soviet/KGB Collaboration==
==Allegations of Soviet/KGB Collaboration==
In 1978, Kennedy requested the assistance of the KGB to establish a relationship between the Soviet apparatus and a firm owned by former Senator John Tunney (a fellow liberal Democrat), according to a KGB report to the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, discovered in the KGB archives by Russian investigative journalist Yevgenia Albats in 1992. The KGB recommended granting Kennedy's request, on the basis of Tunney's connection with [[David Karr]], a "competent KGB source."
In 1978, Kennedy requested the assistance of the KGB to establish a relationship between the Soviet apparatus and a firm owned by former Senator John Tunney (a fellow liberal Democrat), according to a KGB report to the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, discovered in the KGB archives by Russian investigative journalist Yevgenia Albats in 1992. The KGB recommended granting Kennedy's request, on the basis of Tunney's connection with [[David Karr]], a "competent KGB source."
[[File:Ted and Brezhnev.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|Sen. Ted Kennedy colluding with Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to interfere in the 1984 Presidential election.]]
{{cquote|In 1978, American Senator Edward Kennedy appealed to the KGB to assist in establishing cooperation between Soviet organizations and the California firm Agritech, headed by former Senator J. Tunney. This firm in turn was connected to a French-American company, Finatech S.A., which was run by a competent KGB source, the prominent Western financier D. Karr, through whom opinions had been confidentially exchanged for several years between the General Secretary of the Communist Party and Sen. Kennedy. D. Karr provided the KGB with technical information on conditions in the U.S. and other capitalist countries which were regularly reported to the Central Committee.<ref>Yevgenia Albats, "Senator Edward Kennedy requested KGB assistance with a profitable contract for his businessman-friend." ''Izvestia'', June 24, 1992, p. 5. Cf. M. Stanton Evans, ''Blacklisted by History'' (Crown Forum, 2009), p. 45</ref>}}
{{cquote|In 1978, American Senator Edward Kennedy appealed to the KGB to assist in establishing cooperation between Soviet organizations and the California firm Agritech, headed by former Senator J. Tunney. This firm in turn was connected to a French-American company, Finatech S.A., which was run by a competent KGB source, the prominent Western financier D. Karr, through whom opinions had been confidentially exchanged for several years between the General Secretary of the Communist Party and Sen. Kennedy. D. Karr provided the KGB with technical information on conditions in the U.S. and other capitalist countries which were regularly reported to the Central Committee.<ref>Yevgenia Albats, "Senator Edward Kennedy requested KGB assistance with a profitable contract for his businessman-friend." ''Izvestia'', June 24, 1992, p. 5. Cf. M. Stanton Evans, ''Blacklisted by History'' (Crown Forum, 2009), p. 45</ref>}}