The hidden microphones Stalin used to shape the rebuilding of post-war Europe (Bugged FDR!)

Scottsman.com ^ | 7/5/2003 | Alex Massie

[ikka]

Having Alger Hiss, known Communist spy, at FDR's side all during that time probably helped as well.

FDR was a failure as a president, both in domestic and in foreign affairs. Don't expect the media to report this though.

[MEG33]

Stalin and FDR ping

[DPB101]

Overkill. Stalin just about ran the Democratic Party at the time. Those--such as Patton, Hoover, Chambers and Forrestal--who knew what was going on, got nowhere.

[MEG33]

He had Eleanor to encourage the benign attitude,too.

[Paleo Conservative]

Mr Beria recalled in 1998 that even FDR’s outdoor conversations were secretly taped.

Really? The Soviet Union had audio tape recorders in 1945?

[nightdriver]

"FDR’s benign and rational view of Stalin proved to be one of his last, and arguably greatest, mistakes, even if it was to some extent rooted in the practical realities of power politics."

This was not difficult to decipher at the time. A lot of us were suspicious when ol' FDR reared back one day and said "...some of my best friends are communists."

Our suspicions were confirmed when FDR allowed Stalin to take over the countries of central Europe as though they were conquered nations. He had no right to allow that, but then, he was a very sick man. (another fact neatly kept from us by the adoring, subversive socialist media)

The capper, however, was when Stalin toasted FDR as a fool right to his face there at Yalta and FDR raised his glass and smiled as though he had been complinented. He was one sorry SOB.

[DPB101]

Ann Coulter, Treason, page 18:

A friend of Chambers had arranged a private audience with President Roosevelt's assistant secretary of state, Adolf Berle. After dinner, at Berle's home, Chambers spend several hours detailing the Communist espionage network of which he had been a part. He gave Berle the names of at least two dozen Soviet spies working for the Roosevelt administration. Among them was Alger Hiss, a top State Department official, as well as his brother, Donald Hiss. Berle urgently reported to President Roosevelt what Chambers had said, including the warning about Alger Hiss. The president laughed and told Berle to go f___ himself. No action was even taken against Hiss. To the contrary, Roosevelt promoted Hiss to the position of trusted aide who would go on to advise him at Yalta. . . William C. Bullitt, former ambassador to Russia...(also)...brought the news to Roosevelt's attention. He too, was laughed off.

[nopardons]

Everyone's already said what I would have. LOL

FDR was dying, at Yalta, to boot, BTW.

[nopardons]

So did we.

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

FDR=KREEP

[DPB101]

From The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB:

(The Soviets) saw a bright future for Michael Straight [codenamed NOMAD and NIGEL], the wealthy young American recruited shortly before his graduation afrom Cambridge University in 1937. (Their) optimism sprang far more from Straight's family connections than from any evidence of his enthusiasm for a career as a secret agent. Straight's job hunt after his return to the United States began at the top--over tea at the White House with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. With some assistance from Mrs. Roosevelt, he obtained a temporary, unpaid assignment in the State Department early in 1938. . .

In 1947, Michael Straight became the publisher of The New Republic and packed the magazine with Soviet agents and/or sympathizers including Soviet agent I.F. Stone--MSNBC contributor Eric Alterman's friend and mentor.

[MEG33]

I found a letter to the editor of the NYT by Michael Straight complaining of the ugly smear the reviewer of The Haunted Wood made about his relationship with the USSR intelligence community.The reviewer quoted the book back at him.

[DPB101]

Amazing, isn't it? Straight confessed he was a spy and ratted out Anthony Blunt to MI5 but he still wanted to put a gloss on it that working for the most tyrannical regime ever was somehow OK.

Meanwhile his magazine, for over 50 years, has trashed decent Americans such as Ford and Limbergh--who helped fight Nazis and Communists--because they were isolationists until Pearl Harbor.

[gr8eman]

Can anyone suggest further reading on this topic. It really is intriguing (Sp?)

[MEG33]

I've been reading about the spy William Weisband,never indicted who gave the commies the info that we had on Venona and leading to a two yr blackout on our ability to decipher the intel..and therefore our being surprised by the NKorean invasion of SKorea.The Russians had given permission for the invasion.He spent one yr in jail for failure to testify at a grand jury.The feds didn't want our secrets revealed at trial.I believe Wen Ho Lee may have benefitted from this reluctance to reveal secrets at trial.

[MEG33]

Info on Yalta or the communist infiltration of our government?

[DPB101]

Weisband was the son of Russian immigrants. As were so many other spies (Lithuania was a popular spawning ground too). Most of these people fled Russia because they were communists and got into trouble for trying to bring down the Russian government. I can see giving new immigrants and their kids equal opportunity and all but did they have to be put in the most sensitive areas of our government?

Btw...Weisband gave the Soviets information on Venona five years before the CIA learned of the Army code breaking operation. That is how pathetic our security was and how one group could not trust another because everyone knew Soviet agents were crawling all over the place.

[MEG33]

I found a reference to the reluctance of the Army to share intel because of lack of trust in the new CIA (old OSS).How did we manage ??

[cody32127]

READ TREASON-ANN COULTER SHE DETAILS JUST HOW DEEP THE COMMUNIST WERE/ARE IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FROM FDR TO NOW!