To: Tom Clarke who wrote (2172 ) 12/9/1999 12:38:00 PM From: Daniel Schuh Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Charley, on the subject of I.F. Stone and the NYT , I'm sure you and others here would appreciate the article from the 11/29/99 NYT Magazine, "Cold War Without End ", by "Jake" Wiesberg, as Neocon would say. It's about rehabilitating Joe McCarthy, a cause I'd guess you might endorse, but who can say? Maybe another surefire candidate for Neocon's top 100?search.nytimes.com but I don't think the search links work across sessions.The I.F. Stone case provides a point of entry into the caustic accusations, denials and counteraccusations that are the chief weapons in this cold war. Charges against Stone, who died in 1989, first surfaced seven years ago, when Oleg Kalugin, a retired K.G.B. general, implicated Stone as having been a Soviet agent. The allegation was received skeptically, and Kalugin subsequently denied it, saying that Stone was merely a friendly "contact" of the K.G.B.'s. But Romerstein -- drawing on the Venona documents -- argues that Stone had a relationship during the Second World War with a K.G.B. agent named Vladimir Pravdin who served as a TASS correspondent in Washington. In 1944, according to Romerstein, Pravdin cabled his superiors in Moscow that Stone, whose code name was "Blin" -- the Russian word for pancake -- would continue to talk to him only if he were paid. Stone and Pravdin continued to meet, which proves to Romerstein's satisfaction that Stone must have been paid.
