True. The Venona transcipts proved Joe McCarthy right. The State Department was riddled with moles.
Has anyone done a study of this material to prove or disprove McCarthy's claims? I.F. Stone and the Rosenbergs and Klaus Fuchs, so long defended vociferously by partisans of the Communists and their allies, have been absolutely condemned by the Venona intercepts.
What about McCarthy's claims? If McCarthy said 250, and post-analytical study showed only a handful, or maybe 30 or 40 spies at State, then a fair-minded person would have to say, well, McCarthy missed. But if it were 200 or 150 or 190, I'd be inclined to give it to him.
Senator John Tunney, D-Cal., has also been identified as a KGB source, by analysis of materials taken, with the Yeltsin Administration's permission, from KGB files in the 90's.
In the old days, the State Department certainly was riddled with moles, but for the last 2 decades at the very least, enemies of the United States been operating out in the open at Foggy Bottom!
The State Department is one of the most anti-American organizations in the US, on par with the UN. The whole rats nest should have been cleaned out when they opposed President Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech!
Mark