Posted on 01/23/2004 1:52:40 AM PST by kattracks
I well recall asking my Mom
( the old Sarge who ended up in Intelligence in WWII )
"Mommy, why did they have to die?"
Her answer to a little child remains with me to this day...
"Son, what they did could kill millions of American civillians..."
"Venona" should bring tears of burning shame, btw, to the Meeropol woman. Her parents were liars, spies, and traitors, and they did turn their backs on the fairest and most open-minded nation on earth, to work in the shadows for one of the century's great mass-murderers.
Like killing Stalin and restoring the stolen property of the farmers in Ukraine?
In the Spring of 1943 the US sent to the USSR, via the Lend-Lease Program, tens of tons of nuclear materials - including enriched uranium. [See Richard Rhodes, Dark Sun, Chapter Five, "Super Lend-Lease"].
The head of the Lend-Lease Program at that time was Harry "The Hop" Hopkins - FDR's alter ego. Hopkins is now known from the VENONA Project to have been Soviet "Agent No. 19."
N.B., The TRINITY TEST at Alamogordo, NM was in the Summer of 1945.
Affirmative- she was a WAC Master Sarge in Caspar, Wyoming, and a truck wreck that caused her to forget how to feed herself or walk ( head injury ) kept her from shipping out with the Platoon she commanded to Europe... they moved her over to intelligence after rehab.
She went to her grave saying "I know things I can't tell you about..." Her oath was good to the end.
This info and more was what led Sen. McCarthy to say that Soviet agents infested the highest levels of government. Hollywierd commies still mock him for it.
The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors by Herbert Romerstein, Eric Breindel as well as Witness by Whittaker Chambers should be required reading for all high school seniors in the U.S. and a condition of graduation.
Of course, these people never quit and Morton Sobell still denies his part in the conspiracy: My interest in this event is more than academic. I was convicted with Ethel and Julius Rosenberg of "conspiracy to commit espionage" in 1951--a conviction achieved through government-sponsored perjury--and served more than eighteen years in prison. Since I am named twice in the presently released decrypted messages, I am naturally a bit skeptical of pronouncements emanating from our government's law agencies.
May they all rot in hell.
What I would like to see done are movies and tv docu-dramas not only depicting the Rosenber spy ring, but revealing all the Rosenberg sympathizers and fellow travelers in the print media who must have numbered in the thousands.
All moms are in Intelligence!
(Shameless, gratuitous plug for my darling wife and mother of my children .. blessed of the Lord and a member of the vast, and growing, branch of the Stay-at-home, homeschooling, rightly dividing the word of truth conspiracy.)
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