[OESY]

ALGER HISS'S LOOKING-GLASS WAR: THE COVERT LIFE OF A SOVIET SPY
BY G. EDWARD WHITE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 297 PAGES, $30

[stockpirate]

The FBI files reveal that national leaders of John Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War VVAW meet with Soviet KGB agents inside the United States during a time of war.

[Inyokern]

I can't believe that there is still any controversy about this.

One must merely read Hiss' own autobiography to know that he was full of sh*t. His own account of what happened is about as convincing as OJ Simpson's.

[ckilmer]

it was the events of the mcCarthy era that informed the anti americanism of hollywood.

nixon was always in the gunsights of the media for his role in the mcCarthy era. (That's why its strange that Kerry would have even thought of running for president--given his role in the vietnam era. How could he not know that the swifties would not hunt him down.... Perhaps the same arguement can be laid against Nixon...)

But then Hollywood has operated on the basis of a lie.

The reason Reagan was such a teflon president was that he understood both the lie and where hollywood/media was coming from. His understanding however, came from years of many hard knocks. After the McCarthy period he could not get work in Hollywood--because he was an anti communist. He was the victim of a reverse black list.

[TapTheSource]

If you want to see how thoroughly our government/CIA was penetrated, check out the following link. McCarthy was right, Alger Hiss was just the tip of the iceberg.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1224848/posts

[nonkultur]

The VENONA files are decoded cables sent from Soviet agents in the United States to Moscow. Transcripts of the intercepted cables were released by the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency in 1995 and 1996. The VENONA transcript with the most relevance to the Hiss case is #1822, sent March 30, 1945 from the Soviet's Washington station chief to Moscow. (The transcript appears below.) If one accepts that "ALES" is indeed Alger Hiss, the transcript indicates that Hiss continued to work as a Soviet agent well until at least 1945, well after his association with Chambers ended in 1938. The period of the 1940s was one during which Hiss served as an important policy maker in the State Department.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hissvenona.html

[combat_boots]

"communist underground operative who later became a senior editor at Time magazine...."

Infiltrate one, then the other.......

[VOA]

belief in Hiss' complete innocence remains an article of faith for the political left.

Actually, more likely for The Democratic Party.
E.g., Stobe Talbot of the Clinton Administration sticking to that party line
during a Congressional hearing (IIRC).

[VOA]

"For anti-communists, Hiss remains the prime example of how the Kremlin infiltrated
the highest ranks of the U.S. government...."

I about had a freakin' heart attack when PBS's NOVA agreed in their episode titlted
"Secret, LIes and Atomic Spies"...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

I have a theory about Alger Hiss.

I think that he is a hero to the left not because he was innocent, but precisely because he was guilty. To many on the left, spying for the Soviet Union is a heroic act.

[Danae]

McCARTHY WAS RIGHT!!! Now I have known that for a long time, having read those soviet documents, but you just watch, sooner or later, some ignorant liberal (Susan Estrich comes to mind) will scream "that's McCarthyism!" when Kerry or some other liberal idiot savant pops his/her head out of the primordial ooze, that actually IS a traitor. Or at least espouses kneeling to our enemies, and we call ya on it! Well, Suzie dear, McCarthy was right on! YOU ALL slimed smeared and otherwise destroyed a true patriot and to this day you have the unmitigated gall to invoke his name to try to make your point. Actually, in doing so, you only make ours for us. Why? Because McCarthy WAS RIGHT!!!

[matchwood]

I thought Ann Coulter did a wonderful job exposing that commie and his ilk in our government in her book awhile back.

[wagglebee]

The left has spent 60 years lamenting the treatment of Hiss. When will they realize that he got off lucky? He should have been executed or at least imprisoned for a very long time.

[quietolong]

Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies,.....Or... Joe McCarthy was more right than he ever knew
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/622675/posts