John Earl Haynes describes his research in Soviet subsidies in America:
My research colleague, Harvey Klehr, and I were extremely fortunate to be the first historians to explore several major long-closed archives: the Communist International and Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) records in Moscow, the decrypted Soviet cables of the National Security Agency’s Venona project, and the KGB archival notebooks of Alexander Vassiliev.
Among the most surprising discoveries was that the Soviet Union’s secret subsidies of the CPUSA were much larger and lasted much longer than we expected, only ending in 1988 with a $3 million secret payment. In addition, the number of American sources recruited into Soviet espionage between 1935 and 1945 was much larger than we had earlier expected, and the extent of the CPUSA’s direct involvement in that espionage, making itself into an auxiliary of Soviet intelligence, was much more extensive than we expected.
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Too-large of a segment of the academic world is inclined to a benign view of communism in general, and of the CPUSA in particular. They prefer to think of Communists as idealists interested only in social justice and peace. They resent historical accounts such as those Klehr and I produced that present archival documentation of the CPUSA’s totalitarian character and its devotion to promoting Soviet victory over the United States in the Cold War.
In particular, many historians resent our finding documents that firmly establish the guilt of certain Americans accused of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union such as Alger Hiss, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and Harry Dexter White. Even after the superb books by Ronald Radosh on the Rosenberg case and Allen Weinstein on the Hiss case, convincingly showing both men guilty, there remained in the academic world a vocal minority proclaiming their innocence and a larger group saying there was still doubt as to their guilt. Many textbooks for high schools and colleges promoted the doubt position. The documents Klehr and I found in the Venona decryptions and the Vassiliev notebooks closed both cases: they were guilty.
Today only a few pro-communist fanatics in the academic world hold for their innocence. However, in too many cases, the recognition in the academic world that Hiss, Rosenberg, and White were Soviet spies is given grudgingly. It interferes with the ideologically preferred narrative that Hiss and Rosenberg were liberal innocents wrongly convicted by evil anticommunists. They don’t like it that the documents Klehr and I found made maintaining that narrative impossible, and they certainly don’t thank us for establishing the truth.
Eugene McCarthy, a flawed man but ultimately right in his claims.
Um, “Eugene McCarthy, a flawed man but ultimately right in his claims” — wrong McCarthy. Eugene was on the left and sympathetic to their aims and worldview.
Joseph McCarthy, senator from Wisconsin.
Poor Joe McCarthy, he must be spinning in his grave, not only was he right, the rabbit hole went even deeper!
“McCarthy was not a real threat. He got a few people fired, most temporarily. Most of them were actually Soviet agents of one sort or another. They became martyrs and have been celebrated ever since. His goal was a purge of the State Department. He didn’t even come close. If he had somehow managed to fire every Soviet agent or sympathizer in the US government, he would not even have done any damage. As Carroll Quigley pointed out, McCarthy (and his supporters) thought he was attacking a nest of Communist spies, whereas in fact he was attacking the American Establishment. Don’t bring a toothpick to a gunfight.”
The ugly truth about government
by Mencius Moldbug
And from a 1960s speech by Major George Racey Jordan, who was responsible for facilitating the transfer of American Arms and Technology to the USSR during WWII under the Lend Lease Program. He kept a detailed diary including Primary Source documentation:
“One day it was announced in the paper that a 3 ounce bottle of Uranium was missing, and there was headlines in all the papers that this Uranium was missing, and the public mustn’t get excited because they had 600 police out on the dump with Geiger counters looking for this bottle of Uranium, they wouldn’t let the Russians get it!
So I’m standing in front of a bulletin board, there were a couple of officers standing there and they were talking about, gee, if the Russians ever get that bottle we’re sunk! One of the them said to the other, the internal policy of the pentagon is predicated on the fact that that Russians won’t get the atom bomb for another 15 or 20 years. So i turned around, casually, to these officers and said don’t worry about, i used to ship to Russians Uranium in 100 pound boxes!”
His book can be read online here, or his wikipedia entry here.