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Somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-distrib building, we once again made contact with our leader, Mike Lodin.

Hello everybody, Mark Lodin here, our number 877-381-3811-877-381-3811. You know, few years back, I had my buddy Professor Paul Kingoer on this program.

And several times since, and I had him on the Life Liberty and Levin, and we talked at Great Length about an individual's role, a prominent individual's role, interfering with our election process in the time period of around 1984, the re-election of Ronald Reagan.

And what's amazing to me is the extent to which this prominent individual sought to interfere in that election became known when that prominent individual was alive, and that a single major news outlet was interested.

Professor Kingoer, how are you my friend?

Good, Mark. Good to be back on with you. By the way, great Life Liberty and Levin with Peter Schweiser last week.

All right, fantastic.

Thank you. All right, I want to get right into this. The individual was Senator Ted Kennedy. He'd been a leader of the Democrat Party. He's the so-called line of the Senate.

He's an individual who wanted to be president in 1980, the Democrat Prime Minister, Jimmy Carter, and he wanted to run again.

Tell us the story slowly and clearly of what Ted Kennedy did with the Soviets.

Well, that's right. In fact, he wanted to run again in 1984. He had a little problem called chapequitic in the background, right?

Drunk driving an uncharged, perhaps, a vehicular homicides situation. But never charged for that, got away with it.

And what you're asking me about, well, this was a KGB document. So we actually have this. I've got it right in front of me.

In Russian and in English, it was May 14, 1983, from the Committee on State Security in the USSR. That's the KGB.

And the title of it is regarding Senator Kennedy's request to the General Secretary of the Communist Party, YV Andropov.

And that's Yury Andropov, the horrible dictator of the USSR. And so that's who the letter is, too.

It's a classified KGB memo. It's written by Victor Chebrikov, the head of the KGB.

And it says right off in the first sentence on 910 May of this year, Senator Edward Kennedy's close friend and trusted confidant, J. Tony was in Moscow.

And J. Tony was an old law school roommate of Ted Kennedy. He was a senator. He had been a senator from California. And he just died recently.

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