[liberalnot]

joe mccarthy is one of the los angeles times favorite themes. they present the hollywood writers as if they were innocent, when in reality, they were communist party members who worked for the overthrow of the united states.

they were infiltrating public schools, universities, the media, the government, etc.

a related matter was the korean war. communist sympathizers within the state department and the united nations forwarded american military secrets to the chicoms.

[DPB101]

The McCarthy transcripts released last week has some great testimony from American Korean War POWs in Volume 3.

There is also a curious account of U.S government purchases of goose down from the ChiComs during the Korean War (over $30 million worth). It was not put out to bid, the books of the American company handling the transaction were not examined and we, at one point, were paying twice what we could have purchased the feathers for on the open market.