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Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies,.....Or... Joe McCarthy was more right than he ever knew
PBS Nova ^ | February 5, 2002 | Peter Tyson

Posted on 02/05/2002 11:06:24 PM PST by quietolong

NOVA reveals startling new evidence that Soviet spies penetrated America's deepest secrets, including the Manhattan Project, in the 1940's. By cracking the code of Soviet diplomatic cables, the FBI was able to hunt down "atom spies" such as Klaus Fuchs and Julius Rosenberg. But the true "master spy," a physicist named Ted Hall, got away -- and his gripping story is presented for the first time by NOVA. Read Venona Intercepts By Peter Tyson

In 1995, the U.S. National Security Agency broke a half century of silence by releasing translations of Soviet cables decrypted back in the 1940s by the Venona Project. Venona was a top-secret U.S. effort to gather and decrypt messages sent in the 1940s by agents of what is now called the KGB and the GRU, the Soviet military intelligence agency. The cables revealed the identities of numerous Americans who were spies for the Soviet Union, including those chronicled in NOVA's "Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies."

The four Venona cables presented here provide striking evidence of the covert activities of several atomic-era spies, including Klaus Fuchs, Julius Rosenberg, and Theodore Alvin Hall. Through the cables and accompanying stories, peer through the keyhole into the secret lives of these and other agents, who gave away details of the atomic bomb and other highly sensitive technologies. Watch for code words such as "Enormous," which stood for the Manhattan Project, America's atomic-bomb program

Link to Nova web sight on this show


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: joemccarthy; mccarthy
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To: CyberAnt
And .. the reason the dems hated and went after Nixon was because he was a member of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and outed all the Hollyweird people.

Oh, really? And here I always believed -- I guess because the MediaRats always said so -- that it was because Dicky Nixon was so mean to that nice socialist Congresswoman out in California.

Seems like Dick and Dutch struck a nerve, when they stomped on the Hollywood Reds. PBS was just going on and on last night about how much Arthur Miller (and everyone else) hated Elie Kazan, for talking to HUAC about some of his pink friends, like the odious Clifford Odets, notwithstanding that Kazan wasn't really forthcoming.

Nixon walked on the Constitution, but he was a great preceptor to the People in this, that he did it on a rug laid down by FDR, and he took the Imperial Presidency that liberal ideologues and theorists like Arthur Schlesinger and James Macgregor Burns had created out of thin air, and shoved it where the sun didn't shine -- hard.

At the end of the day, he made them work really hard to get into a snit about his bugging the Democratic National Committee, without the conversation's spilling over into LBJ's having done the exact same thing -- and far more damagingly, in terms of outcomes -- to Barry Goldwater in 1964.

He used their own precious imperial tools against them, and he made them work like the devil to catch him out, without exposing that they themselves had crafted and used these selfsame tools of shadow government.

101 posted on 09/05/2003 10:22:11 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Twodees
Interesting isn't it that the American Communist party right now has a link to moveon.org on their website? Hum, food for thought.
102 posted on 09/05/2003 10:24:30 PM PDT by ladyinred (The left have blood on their hands.)
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To: lentulusgracchus
What the dems did was paint McCarthy as a part of HUAC - but he couldn't have been because McCarthy was a SENATOR. This little LIE was the reason they got away with it. Most people didn't realize the "UnAmerican Activities Committee" was a function of the House, not the Senate; that's why the dems continued to say it was McCarthy who "blacklisted the movie stars".
103 posted on 09/05/2003 10:53:57 PM PDT by CyberAnt ( America - "The Greatest Nation on the Face of the Earth")
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To: CyberAnt
Bump for an old but interesting read.
104 posted on 10/07/2003 12:53:01 AM PDT by SAMWolf (Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?)
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To: SAMWolf
BTTT
105 posted on 01/27/2004 7:34:37 AM PST by Smile-n-Win (Compassion for your enemies is a betrayal of your friends.)
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To: quietolong

Bump


106 posted on 02/06/2005 2:57:46 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (The enemy within, will be found in the "Communist Manifesto 1963", you are living it today.)
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To: CyberAnt

Plus as far as I understand it the "blacklist" had nothing to do with the government at all. It was Hollywood "policing" it's own. Correct me if I'm wrong.


107 posted on 10/06/2006 6:41:46 PM PDT by boop (Now Greg, you know I don't like that WORD!)
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To: CyberAnt

I've heard this about Alger Hiss being the reason why people hated McCarthy and later, Nixon, but I guess I have no concept of why this would leave the leftists in such a foaming state of mind. Was Hiss like a movie star at the time? What about Hiss was so great that liberals would spend DECADES defending him, and trying to destroy people who were "mean" to him?


108 posted on 10/06/2006 6:45:34 PM PDT by boop (Now Greg, you know I don't like that WORD!)
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To: boop

You are correct!


109 posted on 10/06/2006 10:24:48 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Drive-By Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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To: ladyinred

Pelose is a member of the DEMOCRAT SOCIALIST PARTY here in CA.


110 posted on 10/06/2006 10:27:16 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Drive-By Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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To: boop

If you want some good info re McCarthy, you should read Ann Coulter's book "Treason". That should clear things up for you.


111 posted on 10/06/2006 11:01:14 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Drive-By Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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To: quietolong

The Saudis pour more money into buying US Politicians than we do. There is no official in DC who is not taking Saudi money. The variety and complexity of front organizations is mind boggling. Check out Murtha’s contributors. You can bet he’s hip deep in Muslim Brothernood funding.


112 posted on 05/03/2007 2:58:29 AM PDT by x_plus_one (As long as we pretend to not be fighting Iran in Iraq, we can't pretend to win the war.)
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