[ggekko]

I read Horowitz' critique of "Treason" and I found it to be a partial, well-reasoned dissent from some of the points in the book. With respect, however, I think Mr. Horowitz missed the bigger picture.

In the mid-1990s a voluminous series of Soviet diplomatic messages that had been decrypted by the NSA and CIA were declassified. These decrypts covered a period of almost fifty years since the end of WWII. A book describing the explosive content of these decrypts was released in 1997 entitled "The Venona Secrets".


The explosive revelations of this book were largely ignored and trivialized by the mainstream media. Among the more controversial issues corroborated by the Venona decrypts were the following:

*Alger Hiss, a key advisor to FDR on Russian
issues, was a paid Soviet agent since the 1930s;
the NY Times ignored the confirmation of Hiss'
treasonous behavior in their obituary for Hiss,

*The Rosenbergs were paid Soviet agents and actively
conspired to steal A-bomb secrets,

*All of the alleged Hollywood martyrs of the HUAC
committee in the 1950s were indeed active Soviet
agents,

*The Soviets maintained active networks of agents in
the so-called peace movements, in various media
outlets, in academia, and the labor movement.


Since the 1960s the public has been brainwashed about the anti-communist movement by a seemingly endless stream of Hollywood movies and sympathetic documentaries that painted the "Hollywood Ten" as martyrs of hyterical anti-communist witchunts. This is the background surrounding Ann Coulter's book.

Ann Coulter has done a tremendous public service by making the contents of the Venona decrypts accessable to the general public. I wish she had been a little more generous to the conservative wing of the Democratic party but on balance she is right.

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*All of the alleged Hollywood martyrs of the HUAC committee in the 1950s were indeed active Soviet agents,

*The Soviets maintained active networks of agents in the so-called peace movements, in various media outlets, in academia, and the labor movement.

Bears repeating...OFTEN.

[leprechaun9]

I read Horowitz' critique of "Treason" and ...

I also read the Horowitz critique of "Treason" and concluded that either he didn't read the book or the copy that I have is not the same as his!