bs9021, too bad your snippet didn’t include the next few
sentences in the article. It might have changed steve-b’s
response.
The next sentences from the M. Stanton Evans article:
I devote two chapters to this issue, showing (a) that the
alleged documentation of McCarthy’s supposed lying about the
numbers was a backstage concoction of the State Department, and
(b) that the charge of McCarthy’s having claimed 205 was
debunked in 1951 by investigators for a Democratically controlled
committee of the Senate. (Curiously, after the investigators
turned in a 40-page report that in essence backed McCarthy,
their memo would abruptly vanish—to be recovered later.)