Posted on 11/05/2007 8:37:40 AM PST by AwesomePossum
Book Description Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even today, a half century after his death, his name remains synonymous with witch hunts.
But that conventional image is all wrong, as veteran journalist and author M. Stanton Evans reveals in this groundbreaking book. The long-awaited Blacklisted by History, based on six years of intensive research, dismantles the myths surrounding Joe McCarthy and his campaign to unmask Communists, Soviet agents, and flagrant loyalty risks working within the U.S. government. Evans’s revelations completely overturn our understanding of McCarthy, McCarthyism, and the Cold War.
Drawing on primary sources—including never-before-published government records and FBI files, as well as recent research gleaned from Soviet archives and intercepted transmissions between Moscow spymasters and their agents in the United States—Evans presents irrefutable evidence of a relentless Communist drive to penetrate our government, influence its policies, and steal its secrets. Most shocking of all, he shows that U.S. officials supposedly guarding against this danger not only let it happen but actively covered up the penetration. All of this was precisely as Joe McCarthy contended.
Blacklisted by History shows, for instance, that the FBI knew as early as 1942 that J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the atomic bomb project, had been identified by Communist leaders as a party member; that high-level U.S. officials were warned that Alger Hiss was a Soviet spy almost a decade before the Hiss case became a public scandal; that a cabal of White House, Justice Department, and State Department officials lied about and covered up the Amerasia spy case; and that the State Department had been heavily penetrated by Communists and Soviet agents before McCarthy came on the scene.
Evans also shows that practically everything we’ve been told about McCarthy is false, including conventional treatment of the famous 1950 speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, that launched the McCarthy era (“I have here in my hand . . .”), the Senate hearings that casually dismissed his charges, the matter of leading McCarthy suspect Owen Lattimore, the Annie Lee Moss case, the Army-McCarthy hearings, and much more.
In the end, Senator McCarthy was censured by his colleagues and condemned by the press and historians. But as Evans writes, “The real Joe McCarthy has vanished into the mists of fable and recycled error, so that it takes the equivalent of a dragnet search to find him.” Blacklisted by History provides the first accurate account of what McCarthy did and, more broadly, what happened to America during the Cold War. It is a revealing exposé of the forces that distorted our national policy in that conflict and our understanding of its history since.
He hit on my Mom...she was a stewardess.
The MSM and the fellow travelers who inherited the school systems of the country have erased this episode from the nation's history. There is no memory of the bitter divide this brought to the country. Today, the sons and daughters of the communists of the 40's sit atop the power structure in government, media, education, and the MSM. They are poised to hand over what have become their hereditary fiefdoms to the next generation.
And that's just the way the Communists wanted it. And don't go making a hero out of Joe McCarthy. Although my family were McCarthy people down the line, I now know he was the wrong man for the job that no one else wanted to do. The commies played him like a bloody trout.
Well, right there you've got the problem. Some people hate McCarthy for "creating a red scare." Others love him for raising the alarm about Communism.
But in truth, McCarthy didn't start anything. The country had already been up in arms about Communists in government for a year or two when he came along. Steps had already been taken to deal with the problem. McCarthy just latched onto the biggest issue of the day.
He was sloppy and careless about facts, and wild in some of his accusations. McCarthy cost the country some prestige abroad when we really needed it. That's why his reputation sank so low for so long.
He wasn't the devil, but he was no saint, either.
My grandmother-in-law was forced from her job in the NYC public schools in the fallout of the McCarthy hearings, when she refused to testify. She was an unapologetic communist and her husband worked in civil engineering on the Moscow Metro.
She was bitterly pleased when we heard, riding in a cab in Manhattan, the radio announce that Joe McCarthy had died, but not because he’d created a “bogus Red Scare,” but rather because he’d had her number as a communist and created a major disruption in her life.
She was a good-hearted, kind person, which is perhaps why she fell for the siren song of collectivism.
If it is true it might be why the State Dept. is so anti American! The moles are still there!
In 1919, A young J. Edger Hoover prepared one of the first legal briefs reflecting the subversive aspects of the worldwide Communist movement. In that same year, America began throwing Communist subversives out of the country.
In 1919, American journalist John Reed returned from Moscow and was instrumental in organizing Communists in America.
In 1919, a series of 36 mail bombs were sent to U.S. Government officials, business leaders and others. A servant of Senator Hardwick, who had been trying to shut down the migration of Bolsheviks to America, had her hands blown off while opening one of the packages.
In 1920, American Communists received a boost when the Russian Government sent C.A. Martens as an official representative, to help organize a full-fledged Bolshevik program, armed with a very large amount of money to be used to organize Communist cells in labor unions and the military.
1920, A large bomb was carried by a horse drawn carriage to the corner of Broad and Wall Streets in New York City, and was exploded, killing 30 and injuring hundreds more and causing extensive damage to the surrounding buildings.(Kinda sounds like a primitive 911, doesn't it.........side note: the Communists have created, funded, trained, advised and armed Islamic terrorists for over 80 years, so, IMHO, 911 was just an extension of Communist aggression here in the United States).
From 1921 to 1924, American members of the Communist Party went underground, only to resurface.
From 1925 to 1938, Communism experienced tremendous growth in America. In churches, schools, social clubs, business, industry, unions, the military, all branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments.
From 1939 to 1950, Communists had become entrenched in the U.S. Government, with the express intent of someday overthrowing the U.S. Constitution.
So, yes, a lot was happening before McCarthy........What made McCarthy's blood boil was that there was a list of dozens of either Communists or those loyal to the Communists in the U.S. State Department, who had been known about for 4 years, and nothing had been done about it. He fought a steep uphill battle to expose them and others in the U.S. Government and the U.S. Military. But, instead of investigating the Communists, the Democrats decided to investigate McCarthy............kinda like now, the Democrats would rather fight President Bush instead of fighting the terrorists.
McCarthy became one of the most popular figures in America at that time, and, also very popular abroad with free peoples and especially those who had already felt the sting of Communist rule. But, if you listen to the Big Liberal Media, he was the most hated person on earth..................kinda like what they are saying about President Bush now.........
As for me, Joe McCarthy will always have my undying love and respect for the tremendous sacrifices he made for this country...........not just because he was a fellow Republican...........not just because he was a fellow Marine..... but because he sacrificed everything, his reputation, his political career, his family life, even his health.........to help keep this country free. He will always be a hero in my book.
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Just goes to show how far Ann is ahead of everyone else. She has been talking this talk for at least the last two years.
From 1939 to 1950, Communists had become entrenched in the U.S. Government, with the express intent of someday overthrowing the U.S. Constitution.
The real take-off came with FDR's victory. He had become Governor of NY with Communist, Progressive, Socialist, and Radical support. The Communists "mainstreamed" themselves by joining the Democrats and soon took over. When FDR went to Washington, they went right along with him, by literally the thousands. From '38-41, when the Soviets and NAZIs had their Non-Agression Pact, the American Commies laid a bit low, working behind the scenes in Government and faithfully reporting to Moscow, to come back with a vengeance after the NAZI invasion of the Soviet Union.
McCarthy was overwhelming supported by the American Catholic Church, particularly Cardinal Spellman, who were strongly anti-communist. This was a "kiss of death" for the diplomatically inept McCarthy with the American Left. Joe also left himself wide-open with a series of very bad appointments.
He soon was targeted by the KGB who thoroughly confused and muddied the waters by giving up low level commies, like mvpel's MIL, while protecting the likes of Harry Hopkins, Alger Hiss, Kim Philby in the UK, and a host of others.
McCarthy a hero? I guess so. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Bottom line: a good man, who in the long run achieved results opposite to those he desired for us.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
I'm sorry, but for all the sacrifices, all the long hours, all the struggles..........."good intentions" is not how I would describe McCarthy.............
who in the long run achieved results opposite to those he desired for us.
That's the way many have framed his work, but, I disagree............thankfully, after McCarthy, there have been others who have stepped up to continue the anti-communist cause, although few have been prepared (save our dedicated military and some non-uniformed services) to make so many sacrifices.............
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There is no memory of the bitter divide this brought to the country. Today, the sons and daughters of the communists of the 40's sit atop the power structure in government, media, education, and the MSM. They are poised to hand over what have become their hereditary fiefdoms to the next generation.
I rest my case. (The commie bâtards won. By now, Joe McC must be doing atleast 750 RPM in his grave.)
With all due respect, you have a limited understanding of the communist movement if you believe that the communists “won” simply because of Joe McCarthy........I hope I am reading into your last reply incorrectly.............
This from the end notes of an article by Gregory Zinoviev (Russian Bolshevik leader) in "The War and the Crisis of Social Democracy", 1916.
'"Chauvinism" refers to the racist and reactionary nationalism of an oppressor nation, of an imperialist ruling class. "Social chauvinism" refers to the chauvinism of those who purport to represent the working class.'
For example: When the British went to war against Argentina over the Falkland Islands, the socialists in Britain who supported the war were looked down upon by the communists as "social chauvinists".............
So, yeah, you are right about where "male chauvinist" came from.........
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Waves of immigrants who came to the USA from 1880-1920: the poles the italians the irish the jews. Most of them voted for FDR by large majorities in 1932, 1936 & 1940. Today only the jews still vote democratic by hefty majorities. Why? The reason for this dates explicitly to the McCarthy period from 1950-54. The reason this is so is because Hollywood still strenuously maintains the communist lie about that era. This lie is maintained by movies in the last years called “A Beautiful Mind,” and “Good Night and Good Luck”.
There are various reasons given as to why Stalin initiated the Doctor’s Plot in the early 1950’s before he died. The KGB hated Israel. Many Americans who were enthusiastic supporters of the UN were Jewish.
Edvard Radzinsky in his book “Stalin” argues that while at one time Stalin hoped Jewish financial capital would help rebuild the Soviet Union after the WWII, Stalin hated the prospect of suborning himself to the Baruch Plan and he flat out rejected IAEA nuclear controls—presented in 1946. The Russians were working on their own abomb based on stolen US designs. (Stalin’s attitude is not entirely dissimliar to that of Iran today.) The Russian Communist party was so top heavy with Jews-Stalin himself a Geogian—wanted to insure that the Russians saw a Russian face to the the communist party.
Whatever the reason, Stalin fomented the Doctor’s plot hysteria and broke off diplomatic relations with Israel. He was within days of preparing to exile the Soviet Jews to the Gulag (as was done previously with various other ethnic minorities such as the Crimean Tatars, Chechens, etc.), and initiate another great purge along the lines of 1938.
The important thing to recall is that the Doctor’s Plot happened at the same time as the McCarthy anti communist business from 1950-54
Stalin already had the concentration camps set up. And some of the preliminary accusations had gone out for the Doctor’s Plot.100 or so Russian jews had already been executed when he died in 1953.
At the same time the Rosenburgs were tried and executed for treason in the USA in 1953—and this less than a decade after the Holocaust. This naturally caused fear and suspicion in the US Jewish community. This fear and suspicion was played upon by knowledgeable communists and leftists—large numbers of whom were jewish. These folk not only knew about what Stalin had done in the 1930’s and was about to do with the doctor’s plot—before he died— but also saw the McCarthy trials as show trials american style ... that is, a prelude to an american pogrom. —For which the rosenbergs were exhibit A.
What Stalin had planned to do— in a brilliant piece of jujitsu —leftists and communists imputed to Americans on the right. But it was done soto voce. Basically a blood libel was perpetrated on Americans without their knowing it. Worse, protestant america were painted as tribal enemies tooth and claw of the US jewish establishment without protestant america even knowing it. Never again! — Was the battle cry. But there weren’t any such enemies of Jews in the USA. If there were protestant tribal enemies in the USA — Meyer Kahane would have provoked them into a bloodletting. Why? Because he heard the same thing as everyone else. He also heard about enemies of the jews in the heartland. When he went to give battle, the only sorts of fights the JDL could find resulted in unintelligible court disputes in places like Idaho. In the end, Kahane married an american woman & helped expedite Stalin’s last wish—to rid Russia of Jews. When the american woman committed suicide Kahane lost interest in the USA and focused instead on Israel. When Kahane — died it was at the hands of a Moslem in 1990.
While the American public outside NY/LA were generally given the view that the McCarthy era was an age when innocent men were unjustly tried by suspicious anti semites like McCarthy & Nixon—the NY/LA Jewish establishment was given a very different story. They were given to understand that the democrats/liberals had prevented the US from visiting a holocaust on them. And that therefor American Jews owed their loyalty to the liberal democrats because the liberal democrats were the protectors of the Jews.
And this Meme went on untouched for decades after McCarthy.
This dual track story line didn’t crack until the early 1990’s when the kgb/nkvd/gru opened up their files on the WWII-McCarthy Period. In 1995 the US’s NSA agency opened up their Venona files. Both Russian and American spy agency files showed that McCarthy was right. The US government —as well as the Manhattan Project—had been at one time soaked with Russian Spies. The Rosenburgs were guilty. While McCarthy was wrong in most the details he got the general outline of the story right. Why did McCarthy get the outline right and the details wrong? The reason is McCarthy’s relationship to Hoover was the same as Hoover’s relationship to the NSA.The NSA told the FBI about the Venona intercepts but insisted that the FBI could not use NSA intercepts as evidence in court. The FBI had to develop their own leads. As a result most of the spies escaped prosecution. The FBI did not get their man.
In 1950 J Edgar Hoover began weekly meetings with Joseph McCarthy. Those meetings ended in 1954. The beginning and end of those meetings coincided with the beginning and end of McCarthy star turn in the national spot light. McCarthy got most of the details of the spy story wrong but he got the general outline of the story right. His predicament was the same as that of the FBI. Whatever Hoover told him—McCarthy could not use in the senate hearings. To this day the FBI denies that Hoover told McCarthy anything about the Venona Cables and maybe Hoover said nothing explicit to McCarthy for which Hoover could be liable in court.
Needless to say, an American style shoah was never in the cards.
The reason that hollywood hated Ronald Reagan so much was that he was an anti communist in hollywood during the McCarthy period. During this period to be staunchly anti communist in Hollywood or NYC was to be at least vaguely anti semitic because in the 30’s to the 50’s communism was considered to be almost a secular form of Judaism in the Jewish communities of NY/LA. Why? In Russia, communism was a way to get ahead for the jews. As well, there was a biblical antecedent for jewish communists in the bible in the person of Joseph in Egypt. Why? Because the relationship between jews to joseph’s Egypt maps over well to jews in Russia. And the history of the jews from Joseph to Moses looks very similar to the rise to prominence of many jews in the soviet communist bureaucracy from the 1917-1970 and the decades long expulsion of Russia’s jews after 1970 when it became clear that communism was not working. The Russians blamed Russian jews for the failure of communism.
Reagan was among the first wave of FDR democrats to switch parties. Reagan’s star turn in Hollywood ended after McCarthy. However, his experiences in Hollywood served him well when he went into public service. He always understood the jujitsu of media talk of the age. Something that cannot be said of Nixon.
When I hear American based Moslems talking about McCarthyism being visited on them. I have to laugh. They don’t know that they have pronounced themselves guilty in the eyes of many Americans.
The history of the McCarthy period now is forgotten among american jews except for the vague idea that somehow republicans are bad and somehow democrats are good.
As for the democrats, part of the reason for the loss of their inner coherence in the last decade —has been that part their foundational raison d’être stemming from the McCarthy era was revealed to be based on a lie. So now the core of the democratic party is the sodomites. Those folks are not just confusing. They are confused.
David Horowitz interviewed by Rush Limbaugh a couple months ago talked about how his parents were communists and he was a communist in college. He said when he was in college his views were always treated respectfully by his professors. But he said recently a young christian college student told him that his homosexual college professor had singled him out in class and asked him “Why do you christians hate queers.” Asked why he continued to do what he did in the face of all the abuse he gets, David Horowitz said like Rush he took public political positions because he had to. But also he said he did it as a matter of atonement.
He gets it.
Venona Historical Writings that include comparisons of venona and russian spy lists and the changing venona story in the academy.
http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page43.html
http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/index.html
Cynical old bâtard that I am, I DO believe in many important ways, the commies won. Of course, I do not mean to imply that it was all Joe McCarthy's fault. I meant to say that Joe got used, got duped.
In fact, instead of saying "Joe," I should have said "we," because I was right in there with him, and would be again.
Let me be clear, when I say the commies "won," I mean to say that in the area of what is transmitted down in our culture to the newer generations, the commies and their children seem to have the last word ... even with my children. A galling set of circumstances.
bump for later read. Thanks.
Mccarthy erred in lighting into Marshall, that is the worst that can be said about him. The book is fair on the point and on all others. And you will not believe what his opponents were up to.
This book is an atom bomb about the early cold war left...
The problem appears to be nobody has, other than the author. Hoover knew. Everyone else who touched the affair on the other side, was a stone cold bastard and a waste of oxygen.
As Ann said, yes, but this book is much better documented.
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