Okay Here it Is. The whole interview with Bernie about Latin America. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

[CajunBlazer]

53. Sounds like an academic squable to me.

Not that the while historian "distrusts" Andrew's research, there is no disputing Andrews credentials as an expert on the history of intelligence services and that neither gentleman offer a shred of evidence to disprove Andrew's assertions. That's not how it works in academic circles. Andrew has copies of the documents he cites. These other two guys have nothing but hunches.

J. Arch Getty: Getty established himself as a forerunner among revisionist historians of the Soviet Union with his first book, Origin of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938 (Cambridge 1985). Most recently, Getty has published a biography of N.I. Yezhov (2008). He is a controversial figure in the field of Soviet studies, as he was one of the first to put forth the thesis that the Great Purge was planned and commanded not only by Stalin, but by Yezhov and others among Stalin's subordinates as well.[2][3][4] He has studied the Soviet constitutions and elections of the 1930s,[5] as well as the ancient antecedents of Soviet political practices. Note, not one reference to his knowledge of the workings of the KGB

Bahukutumbi Raman ....also referred to as B. Raman, was an Additional Secretary of the Cabinet Secretariat of the Government of India and one-time head of the counter-terrorism division of the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency. I wonder how much a gentleman who specialized in "Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma and China" knew about the inner workings of the KGB.

I have to go with the more authoritative source. After all, did Andrew just make up the specific details of the relationship of Sandinista leaders with the KGB including naming names?

But all of this is a distraction, the real issue is that of Bernie Sanders was an outspoken supporter of governments that were murdering their own people and suppressing their human rights at the time of his visits in 1985. These are facts that should have been available to him at the time and are certainly available to him now. Yet he currently sticks by and refuses to even explain those statements he made thirty one years ago.