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To: edwinland
I hadn’t heard that he had access to the Venona transcripts. Do you have a source for that?

There was a book called "The Venona Secrets", available on Amazon. It's not the only source - it's all over the internet. Googling McCarthy Venona yields plenty of material.

13 posted on 02/16/2015 11:28:02 AM PST by Spirochete (GOP: Give Obama Power)
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To: Spirochete

I’ll order the book. In the meantime I googled McCarthy and Venona and couldn’t find anything suggesting that he had access to the transcripts, beyond one person In a blog post speculating that it would make sense. I’ve read a couple books on McCarthy published long after the transcripts became public. Plenty of people write about the transcripts vindicating McCarthy but I haven’t see any evidence produced that he had access to them. There’s also an anti-McCarthy article on frontpage that argues he couldn’t have access because so few of the relevant names match his own lists. But I didn’t find that convincing either.


17 posted on 02/16/2015 1:00:33 PM PST by edwinland
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