Secrets, Lies and Atomic Spies - the Venona Project on NOVA, PBS

NOVA on pbs 8pm EST ^ | 2/5/2002 | NOVA production

[blam]

"PBS just made the *shocking* discovery that McCarthy Was Right?! Am I the only one to see the juicy irony here?"

Read the book Venona. Joe McCarthy was 100% correct.

[edwin hubble]

About Truman's deflecting the charges against Hiss... To give the benefit of the doubt, was he protecting the source of the information (the codebreaking?)...

He was, after all, a cold warrior...the only one to authorize the use of atomic weapons.

But the pattern seems in many ways entirely consistent with the press and media in this decade.

[Doctor Stochastic]

There's a web site about the Venona project. (Look up Venona in the search engine of your choice.) It's an NSA web site. There are a couple of books on the subject that are fascinating too. The NSA museum also has an exhibit. (Take the Baltimore-Washington Parkway; turn in behind the Shell Station; it's in an old motel. The password is "togetherness.")

[edwin hubble]

Thanks, Doctor.

I appreciate the info.

http://www.nsa.gov/docs/venona/

And guess what? There really is such a site.

I really thought you were kidding about the NSA website. ("Never Say Anything"... )

So you were serious about the NSA Venona website.

Now about those directions to the museum... ... and the password.

Only someone well inside the beltway could have this information.

[edwin hubble]

yes, but the irony is that PBS would say so.. and so clearly.

[Yougottabekidding]

Good (real)SPY Books: "Master Of Disguise" -A. Mendez; & "First Directorate"- Oleg Kalugin

I would not want to be a spy, even a pro. Someone ultimately turns and gives all the names.

[Waco]

Wouldn't it be accurate to consider the democrat party a communist front group now? (Probably a hellofva lot more accurate than we suspect?)

[Buckeroo]

I love re-writes of history. It creates an automatic action to "slap my knees."

[FlyVet]

Remarkably balanced for PBS

Sometimes they are remarkably balanced. I missed this one, I'll catch the replay later this week (or month). This Thursday will be "Frontline: American Porn"....an investigation of the porn industry. Frontline usually doesn't pull too many punches either.