The New York Times was part of that cover-up too... One of their suck-ups even won a Pulitzer for it...
Right. Durante a real tool of Stalin.
At the time our government was crawling with newly minted communist bastards, but Roosevelt (who probably knew it) just looked the other way. Truman was a different matter. Truman knew full well that his administration was larded with commies, but he vehemently denied it.