Add Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel for their life-long pursuit of the truth. Romerstein is the coauthor of "Stalin's Secret Agents." He is also the coauthor of "The Venona Secrets" with Breindel for their seminal research after the Venona papers were declassified and Russian espionage documents were briefly declassified. I've really got to hand it to these people for exposing the truth, a truth you will never hear once in the education establishment.
The more I read in this area (Witness, The Communist, The Venona Secrets, Communism: A History, Blacklisted by History -- next up "Stalin's Secret Agents"), the more flabbergasted I become about our country willfully turning a blind-eye to the enemies who infiltrated the government to the highest levels and seek to destroy us. And now they are out in the open in the White House.
I will indeed. I've read and greatly benefited from their work. I'll even throw in Ronald Radosh and John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr. All of them contributed greatly to telling the truth about something so many in our country have little knowledge (or interest unfortunately). You might want to look at my post (#28) regarding a remarkable book by Stephen Koch.
If you wish to learn how it came to pass via historical revisionism, read "In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage" by John Earl Haynes and Harey Klehr.
These truths are disheartening to me after 40-years of being scoffed at and called paranoid by friends and relatives when I tried to make them see what was happening. The greatest victories won by the "progressives" were their takeover of academia and the media (including "popular culture.")
Also read: “The Haunted Wood” by Allen Winstein and Alexander Vassiliev; “Joseph McCarthy” by Arthur Hermann (fairly brief and concise biography and still sympathetic to McCarthy); “Clever Girl” by Laruen Kessler; “Mortal Crimes” by Nigel West.....and “Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism” by Richard Gid Powers.