[ReformationFan]

Good column about setting the record straight concerning Communists/Soviet agents and/or sympathizers in American politics during the 20th Century.

[rbmillerjr]

cold war commie referenced marked

[GSP.FAN]

More info...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project

Venona project..

The decrypts show that the U.S. and other nations were targeted in major espionage campaigns by the Soviet Union as early as 1942. Among those identified are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; Alger Hiss; Harry Dexter White,[15] the second-highest official in the Treasury Department; Lauchlin Currie,[16] a personal aide to Franklin Roosevelt; and Maurice Halperin,[17] a section head in the Office of Strategic Services

[EAGLE7]

Two good books along these lines are ‘Shadow World” by Robert Chandler and “Witness” by Whittaker Chambers.

[SunkenCiv]

It can be said without credible contradiction that what we now know about Soviet spying and infiltration of the U.S. for seven decades vindicates the much-maligned anti-Communists (in and out of Congress) of that era... Alexander Vassiliev -- a journalist and former KGB officer -- managed to gain access to previously closed archives. He made notes -- volumes of them -- before collaborating with Allen Weinstein in the brilliant expose The Haunted Wood, published several years ago. Weinstein, by the way, authored the 1978 best-seller Perjury, which clearly showed -- once and for all -- that Alger Hiss was rightfully convicted of lying when he said he was not a Soviet agent (only the statute of limitations enabled him to escape the charge of outright treason; perjury was his more recent act)... As for Weinstein, he went on to become the ninth archivist for the National Archives. He originally investigated the case expecting to prove Hiss innocent. When Weinstein discovered otherwise, he reported his findings in Perjury. The result was that Hiss's effort to revive his respectability on the back of Nixon's Watergate crashed and burned.

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The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America -- The Stalin Era by Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev hardcover	Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein hardcover

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