To: CYBERKEN who wrote (267544 ) 6/27/2002 10:26:29 AM From: gao seng Respond to It is hard to believe that, what with the publication of the Venona transcripts, the Mitrokhin files, and the critical re-examinations of this period of American history. Only reflexive anti-anti-Communists like the Washington Post, still referring to the "possible Communist associations" of the Hollywood Ten, or the New York Times, speaking of the "unreasonable and unreasoning terror of Communist subversion," dismiss the reality of subversion and betrayal of American secrets and lives by a Communist fifth column in the 1930s and 1940s. Who, besides Richard Rhodes, believes that Soviet nuclear scientists did not benefit significantly from access to Los Alamos secrets? Who can doubt the role played by Kim Philby, Guy Burgress, and Donald Maclean in undermining U.S. efforts to counter Stalinist expansion after World War II? Who, besides Bill Clinton’s nominee to run the CIA—Tony Lake, doubts that Alger Hiss was a Soviet military intelligence spy? The Evil Empire even had agents inside the White House—Harry Hopkins, FDR’s confidante who lived there and Lauchlin Currie, an assistant to the President. Message 17629520
