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Originally Posted by tristanrobin
OMG
I can only hope that you are writing that to stir the pot and create controversy ... and not ignoring decades of proof to the contrary
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You can't say "decades of proof" without considering that the
Venona Project destroyed the myth of McCarthyism...many like to keep it going...why....I have no idea...
Maybe it's just too infused into the lexicon...But, for whatever reason, it's still a myth...
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Many inside the NSA had argued internally that the time had come to publicly release the details of the Venona project, but it was not until 1995 that the bipartisan Commission on Government Secrecy, with Senator Moynihan as chairman, released the Venona project materials. Moynihan wrote:
"[The] secrecy system has systematically denied American historians access to the records of American history. Of late we find ourselves relying on archives of the former Soviet Union in Moscow to resolve questions of what was going on in Washington at mid-century. [...] the Venona intercepts contained overwhelming proof of the activities of Soviet spy networks in America, complete with names, dates, places, and deeds."
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MCarthy was right all along...
