Nukestalgia

Vladimir Putin on February 27 put Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert and foreign minister Sergei Lavrov announced that a third world war would be “nuclear and destructive.”

Those concerned about the threat might wonder how Russia acquired those destructive nuclear weapons in the first place.

Russia did not invent nuclear weapons, and neither did the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, whose demise Putin laments. As it happened, Stalinist spies stole the plans from the U.S. Manhattan Project during World War II.

To learn more about Klaus Fuchs, a key figure in Stalin’s spy network, see Nancy Thorndike Greenspan’s Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs. For Julius and Ethel Rosenberg see The Rosenberg File: A Search for Truth, by Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton. Radosh was initially a defender of the Rosenbergs but wound up convinced of their guilt. It is debatable whether the Rosenbergs should have been executed on June 19, 1953, especially Ethel. On the other hand, there is no doubt that Julius was a Stalinist spy and Ethel was his accomplice.

Facing an invasion of Japan that would cost countless American lives, the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki on August 9. Japan surrendered on August 14, 1945, bringing World War II to a close. Stalinist pisseur d’encre Frank Marshall Davis, beloved mentor of the composite character David Garrow described in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, faithfully proclaimed the communist view.

“When we dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, we believed the world was ours,” Davis wrote on February 9, 1950. “Having defeated the Axis powers on the battlefront, we were ready to show the Russians who was boss of this world.”

Harry Hopkins, and by extension, FDR. And with what I have read outlined below, it is no stretch to see the same types of treason in our dealings with Iran regarding the bomb from people like that POS John Brennan to Valerie Jarrett.

I have long wondered about Harry Hopkins and his influence, but until I read “Blacklisted By History” (by M. Stanton Evans, whose work and research is now apparently in the hands of Diana West, who pulls no punches.

I had, many years ago, acquired and read Senator Joseph McCarthy’s ghostwritten book “America’s Retreat From Victory The story of George Catlett Marshall”, and found it remarkable enough to buy a copy to replace one that had fallen into my hands, and at the time, even the dog-eared copy was expensive for a thin paperback.

I was not ready to accept any of that book at the time. It was too much for me. But after having read Ann Coulter’s book “Treason” which led me to Whittaker Chamber’s “Witness”, which led me to about a dozen books on this subject of Communist infiltration of the US Government, culminating in the M. Stanton Evans book “Blacklisted by History”, I had, over the years, lost my innocence on this. I no longer view General George Marshall in the same light I once uncritically did.

Anyway, I have for a couple decades wondered about the mysterious Harry Hopkins and his role. I just finished reading Diana West’s book “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”. It is so disillusioning that I could barely get through it (and still have a little ways to go) but...as we see now with propaganda coming out on both sides of the conflict in Ukraine (let’s not forget Ukraine was part and parcel of the Soviet Union, and the Ukrainians didn’t just learn propaganda from Russia, they were, as minions in the Soviet Union, up to their heads in the formulation and dissemination of propaganda. So we are getting it from both sides. And from our own government, now.

Even now...looking at what happened in and after WWII, the overwhelming obsession with a second front at Normandy, the abrupt halt of non-Soviet allied forces in the drive to Berlin, the conferences and concessions at Teheran, Yalta, and Potsdam, the explanations of people like M. Stanton Evans and Diana West are the ONLY explanations that make sense.

I have wondered for years how we let those things happen, how we let the Soviets take over a huge swath of Eastern Europe and the Baltics, how we forced our own troops to “repatriate” Soviet POWs to their own country and a certain imprisonment or death in Operation Keelhaul, and so many more things...how could we have done all that? How could our American “value system” have allowed us to do those things?

In the end, I have come to believe it was not our “American value system” that “allowed” us to do those things, it was the Communist value system.

For years, there were still dimwits who thought the Rosenbergs were innocent. A Soviet propaganda operation on world opinion that had millions of people around the world taking to the streets. Even today, there are people who refuse to believe Alger Hiss or Harry Dexter White were Soviet agents, not only in the face of their deeds and actions which might be ignored, but contrary to the released Venona decrypts of Soviet messages AND the actual words and actions of the Soviet government.

Back to Harry Hopkins.

I have on my reading list now a book titled “From Major Jordan’s Diaries”, the story of a Major working in a pivotal role in the Lend Lease program, whose job was to execute the provisions of Lend Lease to the Soviets, remove all possible red tape, and expedite shipments. (I believe his book was published first in 1962) Major Jordan was a fixer to keep things going.

In Diana West’s book “American Betrayal”, she discusses how Harry Hopkins spoke in speeches very early on (even before people fully grasped the depth of his relationship and influence on Roosevelt) and he sounds like a full-blown, capital “C” Communist. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably a duck, as Senator McCarthy once famously opined on a person who turned out to be a Soviet agent.

Same with Harry Hopkins.

So, Hopkins was de facto in charge, at the very top of Lend Lease. He was running it from the top. And Major Jordan viewed him as THE top man, so whatever he said...went. Major Jordan eventually ended up at an Army Air Corps base in Montana that was the focal point for any air shipments to the Soviet Union, and he ran that leg of the operation from there. He began to notice suspicious activity, and when “diplomatic pouches” turned into “diplomatic suitcases” and then into dozens of them at a time, he went into one of the planes they were being loaded onto and began cutting them open with a straight razor. The Soviet guards (yes, armed with guns) came running over shouting “Diplomatique...diplomatique!” which were probably the only English they knew (pronounced in the French fashion) and Major Jordan realized immediately he needed an American witness lest he become a fatal “victim” of some “misunderstanding”. He saw an armed American soldier, and he frantically motioned him over. He asked him if he had served in combat and the guy said he had, in the South Pacific, so Major Jordan told him to cover the Soviets with his weapon and if they unslung their weapons, to shoot them. He then went through the “diplomatic suitcases” and took notes on what he found in ledgers he saved.

In addition to huge amount of documentation on war plants, locations, employees, fabrication techniques, technical drawings and such (dozens of clothing suitcases stuffed with them) he also saw many words and terms he didn’t understand and had never heard of before, “Uranium”, “Cyclotron” and such.

Then, during that time, he got a direct order from Harry Hopkins to expedite a shipment, that was not to be interfered with, no questions asked about it, and he was to tell nobody about it. When he got curious, he went out to look at the crates, and the corner of one of them was smashed, with some of the contents spilling out. He bent down to examine it, and picked some of the odd looking “dirt” up in his hand, when two Soviets came running over shouting at him “No! No! You burn!” (or something like that) He believed later, when he was called to testify in front of Congress, that it was uranium ore.

He told his whole story in Congressional hearings after the war (and I think after the Soviets set off the bomb in 1949) and it went down the memory hole.

Betrayal of American nuclear technology, orchestrated not by hidden Soviet agents engaged in espionage, but by Harry Hopkins.

We have been, and still are, so infiltrated and compromised since WWII.

McCarthy uncovered it in the entertainment industry, so the communists/Marxists/socialists/fascists/anarchists etc went underground, and surfaced in the realm of academia, where they had sympathy. From there, they’ve spread to local/state/federal governments, religion, law enforcement, finance... every sector of our society and way of life, influencing our morals and mores.

Hence, the “watermelon” meme — “green on the outside, but red on the inside” descriptor was created and is still viable.

I noted in my college years — 1967-1971 — that many of the profs in the liberal arts university I attended, were extremely liberal. I didn’t mind it, since those were some of my “hippie years”, and I graduated without a scratch.

In 1971, I had to go into the real world, get a good job and make a living, so I discarded my college ways, and returned to my Conservative Values, taught to me by my beloved, late Parents, and good Middle-America teachers — pre-college — who I had along the way.

At 72, I can evaluate a person within 1-2mins, as to their beliefs, values and morals, with a few simple questions, in a brief conversation. I’m not surprised at all the people I meet, retired from academia and government, who are “watermelons”, and worthy of avoiding.

I truly enjoy engaging them in political conversation, and crushing them with my argument, but since I CCW, I only let it get so far, before they pop a vein and come after me, and I cut it off; perhaps for another day. Or, perhaps not.

Thanks for your treatise; good reading and I’ve added your inventory of books to my reading ‘bucket list’.

LOL, I enjoyed reading your post...that is the story of many people, and is one reason I try not to be too hard on young college kids.

There are few things as insufferable as a 21 year old college student, the kind who come home to Thanksgiving dinner, and rail about some thing they learned at college that shook up their world view...:)

It is funny, because all of us have been there to one degree or another. I was extremely conservative even as a very young kid, but I even had my things that make me wince now.

If I could recommend one book out of that group above all others, it is the “Blacklisted by History” book. It is meticulously researched and footnoted, and M. Stanton Evans was a cub reporter at that time that was all going down, so he had memory of it all.

It is most fascinating to hear of his chase for information, and how thoroughly they tried to cover their tracks.

He had one document in particula, a quite important State Department document, that was supposed to be in the government archives that would have shed light on the perfidy and infestation of communists. When he went to the government archive to look at the State Department archive that was supposed to contain the document, sure enough, there was a document IN the record that acknowledged the receipt of the important document for the official record and the date that it came in.

But when he went to that part of the record to view it...the document was gone. All that remained was a staple with a little scrap of paper under the staple, indicating it had simply been hastily ripped out. No documentation on that. In the time frame that document was received, the the chronological order with the date of the next document NOT ripped out, you could see the time frame in which the document had been inserted.

During the Congressional Testimony that McCarthy was overseeing, he had the woman testifying who had been the Librarian of the security documents around that time, and she testified that for a year, there was a high placed State Department employee who had been working in the State Department documents section during that time, who day after day, requested the key to let himself in and out after hours when everyone else was gone, so that he could “work with the records”. When asked the name of that employee, it was John Stewart Service who got out of being prosecuted by a DOJ rigged grand jury (evidence of the rigging was found in an FBI wiretap of DOJ officials who were speaking to a verified (by Venona) Soviet agent, Lauchlin Currie about how to get Service out of the indictment.

I recommend that book highly.

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