[thatsnotnice]

There were a couple of guys (I think they were professors or historians or reporters or something) that went to Russia and several of the other former Soviet Union countries to do research into whether the USSR was involved in some of the charges McCarthy made.

The one man stayed in Russia doing research and the other came back to the US at some point and was a guest on a radio show. He claimed that at first the Russian government was very helpful and essentially gave them the run of their document storage places. They’d been digging through documents for almost a year and for some reason the authorities started putting restrictions on them and they had to start visiting other former Soviet countries to find things.

Anyway, it was an interesting interview and the man said that there were Russian documents that verified that the USSR had people high up in the US government (and military) feeding them information. They were also preparing to write a book, so they may have been hyping things.

That was 8 - 9+ years ago. I’ve got to go to the library later and I’ll dig around and see if I can find anything. Certainly enough time has lapsed for a book to have been written by now.

[NormsRevenge]

Good luck finding it in the public libraries. These kind of books have a way of getting checked out and never returned.

[ckilmer]

the Russian KGB files on record agree with the USA Venona files on record
http://www.nsa.gov/docs/venona/venona_remember.html
Posted by Lonesome in Massachussets to ckilmer
On News/Activism 05/06/2003 9:23 AM PDT #10 of 11

Some more fun:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/622506/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a6dcdd17410.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/711735/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b8cfbf9544a.htm

Books on the venona: The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0895262754/qid=1052140583/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-0884201-3667931?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300077718/ref=pd_sim_books_1/104-0884201-3667931?v=glance&s=books

[Intolerant in NJ]

There were a couple of guys......you may be thinking of Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev and their book The Haunted Wood. They had "unique access to thousands of classified Soviet intelligence dispatches" and integrated these with information from the VENONA transcripts to tell the fascinating story of Soviet spying in the US in the 30's, 40's and 50's. Much of the book details the personal lives of those involved as agents, and what interested me the most was the trivial and venal - or maybe "non-ideological" would be better - reasons so many of them got into the spy game - they were in love with someone who was already an agent, they wanted to go into business in the US and wanted the Russians to bankroll their project, etc. The book leaves little doubt that the infiltration of the government by Soviet agents was at least as pervasive as McCarthy's efforts implied.....