Oh, puke. How predictable.
Hollywood loves to repeat the myth of McCarthyism...
though other recordings probably have been made there. The room -- where then-Congressman Richard Nixon made his first national splash in 1948 by grilling alleged Soviet spy Alger Hiss
In 1995, during the first term of the Clinton administration, the public was revealed of the existence of the VENONA project, a collaboration between American and British intelligence during the Cold War. Several analysts identified Hiss as the Soviet spy "ALES" who figured prominently in the decoded cables. Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the chairman of the Commission in charge of the release of the information, stated that the messages left "no doubt" as to the guilt of Hiss...