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The issue of Kennedy's last name appearing on the no fly list became an issue during the [[2016 presidential election]]. Candidates [[Jeb Bush]] and [[Marco Rubio]] discussed the controversy. Some confusion arose on the issue since not only did papers at the time report that he was on the watch list, but Kennedy himself stated "I got on the watch list". However, Factcheck.org attempted to shift focus on the issue and make it seem as if Republicans simply made the issue up.<ref>[https://www.factcheck.org/2015/12/ted-kennedy-and-the-no-fly-list-myth/ Ted Kennedy and the No-Fly List Myth]</ref>
The issue of Kennedy's last name appearing on the no fly list became an issue during the [[2016 presidential election]]. Candidates [[Jeb Bush]] and [[Marco Rubio]] discussed the controversy. Some confusion arose on the issue since not only did papers at the time report that he was on the watch list, but Kennedy himself stated "I got on the watch list". However, Factcheck.org attempted to shift focus on the issue and make it seem as if Republicans simply made the issue up.<ref>[https://www.factcheck.org/2015/12/ted-kennedy-and-the-no-fly-list-myth/ Ted Kennedy and the No-Fly List Myth]</ref>
==Allegations of Soviet/KGB Collaboration==
==Russian collusion==
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.]]
[[File:Ted and Brezhnev.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|Sen. Ted Kennedy colluding with Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to interfere in the 1984 Presidential election.]]