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To: jbe who wrote (10174)	10/19/1998 10:07:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

<OT> Regarding McCarthyism.... a friend of my family was one of the rocket scientists that worked with Teller and some others at the time. This person is a fusion scientist. Anyway he says that there was this climate of fear surrounding the soviets obvious superior space technology. All the rockets we tried to send up exploded and were called "flopniks". Also there was the recent Rosenberg trial so a lot of actual spies existed. He said the scientific community really believed that the Russians were going to use these rockets to bomb us from space or the moon. Of course this sounds crazy now but I have to believe him. So this climate of fear gave birth to McCarthyism... in fact McCarthy was just one opportunistic politian and that was it. It sounds like you agree with his assessment? Michelle

To: jbe who wrote (10174)	10/19/1998 10:25:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

You are correct, it did start with Truman and Mr. "X". aka George K. But that was very rational, Stalin had snowed a feeble Roosevelt and seized the moment (and the real estate). No other reaction was possible. As for >> The problem is that a lot of people who could not possibly have been spies lost their jobs, and their reputations. I remember Wm. F. Buckley stating that research showed that there were few if any "innocent" victims. I am looking forward to his new book on the subject. >>.Note that the supposedly "liberal" Clinton Administration has been pushing "security " measures (e.g., roving wire-taps, expanded FBI surveillance capabilities) that the ACLU and some conservative Congressmen alike (!) fear could be used to track people with "unacceptable" views. I think that with the end of the Cold War the Reps are more likely to oppose the security state than the Dems.