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Author: Soviet agents subverted US in 1930s
The Daily Caller ^ | May 26, 2013 | Ginni Thomas

Posted on 05/26/2013 9:20:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Syndicated columnist Diana West says the ultimate conclusion of her new book shocked even her.

“Americans have been betrayed … by our leaders going back to FDR’s administration in the 1930s because we were penetrated by Soviet agents to such an extent that our policies and, indeed I argue, our character as a nation was subverted,” she explained in an interview with The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas about her book, “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character.”

“I don’t believe we won World War II,” West added. “I believe that we were actually carrying out Soviet strategy due to this penetration.”

West says that though the United States helped defeat Hitler’s Germany, Joseph Stalin used the war to enlarge the boundaries of his Soviet empire by taking half of Europe.

“You replace Hitler, one monster of totalitarianism, with an even larger totalitarian monster, who killed even more millions of people,” West said.

“How do we look at that and say, ‘we won, we’re great. Triumphial.’ It just doesn’t compute. And I think we have again been victimized by a tremendous, in effect, influence campaign.”

West started writing the book, which reads like a thriller, in 2009. Throughout her research of available historical documents, she tried to reconcile her findings with countless footnotes, memoirs, State Department records, out-of-print books, letters and revelations in files from the Venona archive and the Mitrokhin archives that became available after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.....

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To: LyinLibs
The resemblance is eerie:

This is why the "Obama was born in Kenya" thing is wrong- no way a 19 year old unwed mother could've flown to Kenya in 1961 from Hawaii, then jetted back. I DO think Frank Marshall Davis is Barry's baby-daddy, that Barack Obama Sr. was just a cover.

61 posted on 05/27/2013 3:51:36 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Nothing is more savage and brutal than justifiably angry Americans. DonÂ’t believe me? Ask the Germa)
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To: MuttTheHoople

“I DO think Frank Marshall Davis is Barry’s baby-daddy, that Barack Obama Sr. was just a cover.”

That’s makes 0bama’s “poem” about his “dad’s” stained underwear all the more disturbing.

When I casually mentioned the poem last year, my best friend yelled at me for 10 minutes for failing to bring the poem to his attention sooner.

I assumed everybody knew about it.


62 posted on 05/27/2013 3:54:17 AM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

bfl


63 posted on 05/27/2013 4:00:13 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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64 posted on 05/27/2013 4:04:04 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

Actually the Marxist plague was introduced in this country via the Red Republicans after the Revolution of 1848 in Europe.
Check out this book, “Red Republicans and Lincoln’s Marxists: Marxism in the Civil War”. Allowing mass emigration from the communist of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia contributed.


65 posted on 05/27/2013 4:10:41 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

At long last, somebody’s paying attention..


66 posted on 05/27/2013 4:13:40 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: SpaceBar

“It is also a fact that for roughly a century, communists concentrated considerable effort into subverting the American black community, and we are now reaping the bitter harvest. Strip away all the ethnic peculiarities of the afro-american culture, and it’s pure unaldulterated communist/socialist doctrine.”

Word!


67 posted on 05/27/2013 4:30:30 AM PDT by stockpirate (F. Douglass, "A man's rights rest in three boxes: ballot box, jury box, and ammo box)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If McCarthy had said that *most* government employees were Communists instead of *all* of them it looks as if he would have been right on the money.
68 posted on 05/27/2013 5:56:13 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

You misspelled the last word the letter “e” is not needed.


69 posted on 05/27/2013 6:01:19 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Democrats: Robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote.)
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To: SpaceBar

No secret there...Commies were always infiltrating black community

NAACP founder WEB DuBois was a full bore Commie who was making trips to the USSR well before FDR recognized them in 1933. No wonder the Black community in this country is so geared for govt assistance


70 posted on 05/27/2013 6:03:33 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (GOP - Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Frank Marshall Davis isn’t Baracks father. D’Souza debunked that anti Birther myth in 2016.

Please do not jack an interesting and historical thread with debunked nonsense


71 posted on 05/27/2013 6:13:15 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (GOP - Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: tomkat
"I laid out the entire plan, yet nobody listened."


72 posted on 05/27/2013 6:43:19 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: Sine_Pari

Well, we sure have one now in ole Jean Kerri’....4 Billion for West Bank “reconstruction”, and Putin won’t see him (as part of the charade). Agent in place, and a rich eurotrash one to boot. Lord help us.


73 posted on 05/27/2013 7:20:56 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Been saying the same thing, at least about the State Department. State was so infiltrated by Communists that it no longer worked on behalf the US. And even after the infiltrators retired (few of them were actually caught...) their legacy in the form of policies and personnel guaranteed that the State Department would never again work against Communists or for the US.
An Administration would literally have to fire EVERYBODY from State, completely revise its policies and hire new, vetted personnel, making sure to avoid anybody who ever attended an Ivy League college.


74 posted on 05/27/2013 7:51:39 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it gettingthe so hot?)
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To: Liberty Wins

My understanding is that the Soviets were holding American POWs they capture, er, “liberated” in eastern Germany. If we didn’t give them the Soviet POWs back, we wouldn’t have gotten back our POWs.
As it is, they grabbed some technical types from among American POWs and held them a decade or longer after the war.


75 posted on 05/27/2013 7:57:06 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it gettingthe so hot?)
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To: Amberdawn

“Even my Father thinks FDR was a good man, though I have recently set the story straight with him. My Dad was born in 1931 and to him, the jobs programs started by FDR were a good thing. He was one of a family of 9 children, when poverty was REAL, so I can understand where he comes from.”

Both my parents born around the same time express that same sentiment about FDR.


76 posted on 05/27/2013 7:57:48 AM PDT by Rebelbase (1929-1950's, 20+years for full recovery. How long this time?)
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To: wardaddy

“But by 1940 he was known as a progressive by common sense midwesterners and great plains folk.. But still a dearth of electoral votes in opposition”

There’s a very good book called “The New Dealers’ War: FDR And The War Within World War II “

http://tinyurl.com/23uvaos

it details forgotten political opposition to FDR, a lot of it from within the Democratic Party. By 1937 southern Democrats joined with conservatives in the Republican Party to form ‘the conservative coalition’ to fight the New Deal.


77 posted on 05/27/2013 8:02:43 AM PDT by Pelham (Deport illegal aliens? Hell yes!)
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To: SpaceBar

The “ovens” were certainly a minor part of pre WWII US involvement. An end result of the failed policies of FDR (and Hoover) to get us out of the Depression,because war employed everybody (like the song “working on the national defense”)

At the risk of being accused of saying it was all about “oil” , recommend a read of “The Prize”. Japan, with the Asian Co-Prosperity sphere, and the Dutch oil fields in a similar fashion. Italy completes the Axis, and all three with a commonality of world socialism coupled with dictatorship (and theft of private property).

Another great read, soon to be a movie is “In the Garden of the Beasts”, a diary referenced account of FDR’s first ambassador appointment to Germany— Ambassador Dodd... whose daughter was “loose”, slept with the first head of the Gestapo and eventually became a fully fledged proven Soviet agent. It documents the State Dept’s anti-semitism that continues to this day, and is of a common thread with Stalinism’s anti-semitism. For example, the ship S.S. St.Louis... resulted from intentional neglect as policy with European Jews. The policy being more about industrial trade and oil (never forget how much leverage finally had to be put on the Rockefeller interests to get out of Germany— and stop their biz in the chemical/oil business there with a 30% stake in slave labor IG Farben- a bigtime political exposure of FDRs backers ). In the UK, royal family ties often trumped patriotism, and was only overcome by the potential of the end of the kingdom.

History, from first hand sources, exposes all of the fantasy and fiction created by Stalinists (like “the Good War” as opposed to Vietnam which they and their pals said was not), and their fellow-travelers, the FDR worshippers (because indeed FDR was fully compromised).

Tyranny was abated only for a while, by great human sacrifice for freedom in the “war to end all wars” and WWII. God Bless our Warriors for their sacrifices- in all wars from the Revolution to the present.


78 posted on 05/27/2013 8:33:44 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: exit82

“Whittaker Chambers has been vindicated. His book Witness (1952) is a must read for anyone who wants to know the truth about Soviet penetration of DC in the 1930s and who Alger Hiss really was.”

True.

Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley been American spies for the Soviet Union. Both defected from the Communist Party and it was their testimony that exposed the depth of Soviet penetration of the US government.

Senator Joe McCarthy later capitalized on their revelations but it was really Chambers and Bentley who exposed the network of soviet spies working in the US.


79 posted on 05/27/2013 8:36:57 AM PDT by Pelham (Deport illegal aliens? Hell yes!)
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To: John S Mosby; SpaceBar

“The “ovens” were certainly a minor part of pre WWII US involvement.”

For one thing “the ovens” didn’t exist until after America had already entered WWII. The ‘final solution’ was decided upon at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, and the extermination policy wasn’t exactly announced for everyone’s attention.

Moreover the complaint that the Air Force should have bombed the rail lines to the concentration camps doesn’t hold much water as rail lines were not hard to rebuild.


80 posted on 05/27/2013 9:07:50 AM PDT by Pelham (Deport illegal aliens? Hell yes!)
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