Clearing the air vs. splitting hairs and distorting Cold War history (Part 1)

RenewAmerica.Us ^ | 5/25/09 | Wes Vernon

[ReformationFan]

Clearing the air vs. splitting hairs and distorting Cold War history (Part 1)

Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter whitewashed

Since the downfall of the Soviet Union, volumes have been written about that late superpower's penetration of American Society and its institutions before and during the Cold War years. 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. If anything, they didn't know the half of it.

It was they who warned — often to be met with a ton of ridicule and scorn — that there was a systematic and well-funded web of Soviet-backed subversion whose ultimate aim was to take over America from within.

And the hits just keep on coming

Shortly after the Soviet demise, the successor Russian regime allowed researchers to view the archives of the KGB and other Soviet intelligence agencies dating back to the early days of the world's former leading Communist power and the free world's main enemy after the war.

When startling revelations of those archives achieved a high level of worldwide publicity, the Russians clamped down and narrowed the scope of what was allowed to be viewed.

However, 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). Richard Nixon — as a young congressman — played a part in nailing Hiss in the forties. Hiss in the seventies used the political fallout from the Watergate scandal in an attempt to rehabilitate his own reputation. 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.

[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.

[ReformationFan]

Witness is one of those books I’ve never read but I know I need to like 1984 and Atlas Shrugged.

[EAGLE7]

Never read Atlas Shrugged. 1984 is a must read. These books mentioned as well as other information out there are real eye openers. You realize how, little by little over many years, our freedoms and our Capitalist way of life is being taken away thanks to Subversion. It is a brilliant strategy when you see that so few Americans realize what has happened and is happening. Sort of like Neo in The Matrix, you awaken and see the world that is as opposed to the world we had imagined it was.

[ReformationFan]

“Never read Atlas Shrugged. 1984 is a must read. These books mentioned as well as other information out there are real eye openers. You realize how, little by little over many years, our freedoms and our Capitalist way of life is being taken away thanks to Subversion. It is a brilliant strategy when you see that so few Americans realize what has happened and is happening. Sort of like Neo in The Matrix, you awaken and see the world that is as opposed to the world we had imagined it was.”

Good description of life in the Obamanation we live in today. My young cousin voted for Maobama because she’s been brainwashed into believing how wonderful he was at college. Of course, she’s never been taught about the former Soviet Union.

[ReformationFan]

“Never read Atlas Shrugged. 1984 is a must read. These books mentioned as well as other information out there are real eye openers. You realize how, little by little over many years, our freedoms and our Capitalist way of life is being taken away thanks to Subversion. It is a brilliant strategy when you see that so few Americans realize what has happened and is happening. Sort of like Neo in The Matrix, you awaken and see the world that is as opposed to the world we had imagined it was.”

Good description of life in the Obamanation we live in today. My young cousin voted for Maobama because she’s been brainwashed into believing how wonderful he was at college. Of course, she’s never been taught about the former Soviet Union.

[GSP.FAN]

All completely differrent books,Atlas Shrugged is about Capitalism and free markets,1984 gov control,Witness is a heartfelt story of Chambers conversion from commmie to a free American...

[EAGLE7]

I felt Obama would win the Presidency because this was the first Presidential election where every 18 yr old who voted have been fully indoctrinated into liberal philosophy from Kindergarten through first year college.

[EAGLE7]

True they are different but they relate to each other in the eroding of Capitalism and the increase in Govt. control wee see today is the direct result of communist subversion in our society.

[ReformationFan]

“I felt Obama would win the Presidency because this was the first Presidential election where every 18 yr old who voted have been fully indoctrinated into liberal philosophy from Kindergarten through first year college.”

Indeed. And those 18 year olds were born one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and 1 year before the dissolution of the former Soviet Union so they had absolutely no memory of the Cold War. And their leftist teachers sure didn’t teach them about the disasters of 20th century communism.

[GSP.FAN]

I agree with you except 1984 is the end result of the erosion of capitalism and freedom as is Huxley’s Brave New World..
Both different books but the same idea..

[DesertRhino]

Dude, you just really scared me. What you said is true, and difficult to overcome.

[Freee-dame]

every 18 yr old who voted have been fully indoctrinated into liberal philosophy from Kindergarten through first year college.

...probably most of the 19 to 36 year olds as well.

[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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