I had long ago accepted as highly probable fact near proven that the puppet masters set up the USSR Commies et al . . . just researching Armand Hammer would convince virtually any fair minded person of that without all the other evidence.
But the Mao part was one I was resisting believing.
Sigh.
M. Stanton Evans's new book on McCarthy details the Amerasia sell-out of Chiang Kai-Chek in considerable detail. It was a State Department op run by John Service.
Armand Hammer, who operated as a bagman for the Communist International and capitalist deal-maker for the Kremlin, co-opted Al Gore's daddy (and young Al as well) many years ago. Both Al and later Strobe Talbott became useful tools for the USSR. Some of the sordid --and largely suppressed -- story is told here: Gore & Talbott's Red Russian Roots