I remember that my father had a “crazy old aunt” that thought the
US guvmint was loaded with Communist spies/operatives in the 1950s.
The family generally humored her and just thought she was a little
over-fevered on the issue.
After seeing the PBS NOVA episode linked below (”Secrets, Lies
and Atomic Spies”), I realized how on-target the “crazy old aunt” was.
I almost had a heart attack because the PBS production says that McCarthy
was right about the Communist infiltration, even though his aim
for specific targets was sometimes in error.
This show aired multiple times on the big PBS station in Los Angeles...
I wonder if some of the current Hollywood crowd was interested to
see what REALLY happened in the time of “The Black List”.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/
(bump to come back and buy movie)
Looks like we even have a thread on it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/622675/posts
Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies,.....Or... Joe McCarthy was more right than he ever knew