[DesertRhino]

I have never seen anywhere that McCarthy had actual access to venona. He wasn’t playing some Byzantine game falsely accusing people knowingly. He was just wrong on some of the ones accused, on most he was correct. But he wasn’t deliberately smearing some people he knew to be innocent

[Spirochete]

I have never seen anywhere that McCarthy had actual access to venona

He almost certainly wasn't reading the intercepts personally, first-hand.