“The Soviet Union’s unrestrained espionage against the United States from 1942 to 1945 was of the type that a nation directs at an enemy state. By the late 1940s the evidence provided by Venona of the massive size and intense hostility of Soviet intelligence operations caused both American counterintelligence professionals and high-level policy-makers to conclude that Stalin had already launched a covert attack on the United States. “
Really interesting, historical and important info in those papers; sadly very few have ever heard of them (LIV, not FReepers)..