Comments on: Another Cold War Soviet Agent https://www.isegoria.net/2015/08/another-cold-war-soviet-agent/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:29:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Slovenian Guest https://www.isegoria.net/2015/08/another-cold-war-soviet-agent/comment-page-1/#comment-2378029 Slovenian Guest Wed, 02 Sep 2015 21:39:17 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38782#comment-2378029

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.

(From The ugly truth about government by Moldbug.)

]]> By: Sheldon https://www.isegoria.net/2015/08/another-cold-war-soviet-agent/comment-page-1/#comment-2376886 Sheldon Tue, 01 Sep 2015 16:36:17 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38782#comment-2376886 Seems that Tailgunner Joe was right after all. Joe did not have access to Venona. If he had, I can only well imagine what his response would have been.

]]> By: Morris https://www.isegoria.net/2015/08/another-cold-war-soviet-agent/comment-page-1/#comment-2376884 Morris Tue, 01 Sep 2015 16:34:57 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38782#comment-2376884 “Belfrage then wrote a few books. Among them was one published by a major American publisher in 1973, The American Inquisition: 1945-1950, in which the author claimed that he too was a victim of vicious false accusations that he was a Soviet agent.”

Brass nerve in English, chutzpah in Yiddish.

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