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Interesting. I am reading a book about the Venona Files (an endeavor to read the Soviet’s intelligence community codes) and found out something I didn’t know.

Col. Carter Clarke, who was in charge of the project, said that in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt complained about the decryption of the Soviet Messages and wanted it shut down. By his own account, Col. Clarke threatened to expose her objections to the press. (Not sure Clarke is totally trustworthy, but this revelation came from two sources)

Eleanor Roosevelt was a damned communist sympathizer at best, and I have no doubt that she was involved with making sure the Soviets knew we had compromised their code. (granted, for them, the cows were out the door by the time they knew, we already had a body of messages between 1943 and 1945 that were the meat of Venona)

The Roosevelt and Truman administrations were riddled with Soviet agents, and this (and a huge number of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s “baseless accusations”) was confirmed by Venona.

I have often thought that McCarthy had a source with access to the Venona Project decryptions.

And both Roosevelt and Truman were repeatedly warned of this.

When Roosevelt was informed that Alger Hiss was a Soviet spy, he told the person they were “full of sh*t”.

After Truman was warned repeatedly that Harry Dexter White was a Soviet agent of influence. Because of his high position in the administration, Harry Dexter White was not considered a formal “spy”, but was not only giving intelligence to the Soviets, but was acting as a high level shaper of policy as evidenced by his leading role at Bretton Woods with his buddy Alger Hiss involved in the creation of the UN.

But even though Truman knew that there were important people (such as J. Edgar Hoover) who knew that Harry Dexter White was a Soviet tool and had told him as much, he still appointed him to lead the International Monetary Fund. Years later, to cover his perfidy in doing this, he said it was to “keep him close”.

What a load of crap. I lost all respect for Truman in this and in his treatment of Joseph McCarthy.

Truman, a party hack if there ever was one, was the progenitor of today’s Democrat Party scum. He knew, and he put the political welfare of the Democrat Party far over the national security.

When you read the best account of the McCarthy persecution and political assassination “Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies” by M. Stanton Evans (someone who was actually alive, sentient, and following the action as a “Cub Reporter” at the time back in the early Fifties) it explains the actions of Truman.

Truman was a big Communist fighter as long as it didn’t threaten the Democrat Party. If it did, ignoring it or actively covering up Communist infiltration was the priority.

That is hard for some people to hear, no doubt.