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***I did a quick Google search and found that the Verona Papers indicate that indeed there were many Communists in positions of power during the McCarthy era. But I really couldn't find much on the papers. Could you possibly provide a good link?****

Here's your problem, they are the VENONA Papers, not Verona.

Do another Google search and get ready to click and download :-)

Or.... read them here. The CIA website Venona: Soviet Espionage

Ann Coulter wrote quite a bit about Venona in her devastating book, "Treason". Prior to that, very few people were aware of it. In her book [heavilly footnoted of course], she wrote that Venona discovered that Algar Hiss was a Soviet spy. Hiss was a top advisor for FDR. They warned FDR and he said, "Go F yourself." They were able to intercept and decode Soviet cables. That's what it was all about.

FDR later ordered Venona shut down. I guess he didn't want to hear anything bad about 'Uncle Joe' Stalin. [FDR actually called Stalin 'Uncle Joe'.] They kept it running behind his back. Then Truman put Hiss in charge of founding the United Nations. They warned Truman as well. He ignored him.

Later it was Nixon if I recall correctly, who proved Hiss was a spy. Key word for search would be 'pumpkin papers'. Coulter wrote about the smear campaign to protect Hiss. Yes, the left wing media was very dominant during the fifties.

I would guess... just Arthur in tinfoil here speaking... that some of that New Deal money got funnelled to prop up a left wing media and a left wing college network. There are simply too many opportunities for mischief when the government has New Deal projects. Too many new, radical projects all at once are perfect for a political machine to exploit. It takes decades to uncover layers of corruption and abuse.

In fact, there is an indication that there was power weilded against the religious right prior to the Roaring Twenties. The Miracle of Fatima was buried by a World Series baseball game. And when the Fatima prophesy about a Soviet Empire proved correct, it was kept quiet. Why? It was big news. It would have generated lots of newspaper sales. Makes not one bit of sense to me, unless one assumes there was a media bias prior to 1920.