Falsely accusing an American and destroying their life knowingly and deliberately is the ethos of a Nazi or a Bolshevik. Its un American collectivist BS.
That was literally the ethos of the nkvd in the early days. The innocence of an individual didn’t matter as long as the work of the party was being done. You ought to be ashamed to have said that
It's not as if anyone was going to prison. They were "outing" communist spies and removing them from the government.
If it were done with unerring accuracy, the Soviets would wise up and change their cryptography, thus ruining a priceless security asset. It was an existential conflict. The Soviet Union intended to destroy us.