[Roarkdude]

Who were the 8 people he named and were they communists? Were they out-ed by the Verona project?

[Steely Glint]

"Who were the 8 people he named and were they communists? Were they out-ed by the Verona project?"

It's VENONA, not "Verona." As to your question, well, as the man said, you could look it up. :)

www.nsa.gov/docs/venona/

www.cia.gov/csi/books/venona/venona.htm

foia.fbi.gov/venona.htm

"REMEMBRANCES OF VENONA" by Mr. William P. Crowell, Deputy Director, National Security Agency:
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/text/coldwar/venona-crowell.html

VENONA Historical Monograph #1:
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/text/coldwar/venona1.html

VENONA Chronology:
http://tms.physics.lsa.umich.edu/214/other/handouts/VenonaChrono.html

[Chi-townChief]

The Yahoo story mentioned:

"Playwright Clifford Odets, actress Phoebe Brand and Paula Miller, Strasberg's actress-wife, were among the eight he identified as communists."

I assume the remainder were Hollywood non-entities.