Venona Ten Years Later: Lessons for Today

History News Network ^ | 7-18-05 | Steven T. Usdin

[colorado tanker]

Interesting, Blam. I've heard the same thing about Stalin's knowledge. I believe Truman was at Potsdam when he was notified of Trinity, thinking Stalin didn't know, which we now know he did.

I don't know what to think about Oppy. He sure fit the profile of the lefty academics who were attracted to the sov cause, but I hate to think someone that high in the government and that decent was a traitor. I guess I'm with your son on that one.

[John Filson]

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[ckilmer]

Kathryn Graham was Phil's wife. Martha Graham was a dancer and choreographer.
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Thanks for the correction.

Kathryn Graham never understood.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Book referenced in the article: Venona : Decoding Soviet Espionage in America.

Excellent book. My wife was fortunate to take a graduate course taught by one of the authors, Harvey Klehr, of Emory University. Fascinating guy.

[Misterioso]

Another book of interest is "The Venona Secrets - Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors" written by Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel. It was published in 2000 by Regnery and is available from Amazon.

[Freedom4US]

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[Freedom4US]

"All my life, I heard what a terrible man he was, the wrongs that he did to people, the red baiting, intimidation, etc. I heard it from the history books, magazine articles and television documentaries."

And high school. I was actually called a "beougeois reactionary" by one of my teachers. And I wasn't exactly versed in the art of rhetoric, debate, ridicule by so-called positions of authority, group-think, consensus, etc. etc., ad nauseam ad absurdum. We were all marginalized or isolated by the equivalent of a cheap parlor trick. President Ronald Reagan posthumously awarded Chambers with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I never heard about it then, nor would I have understood about it if I had. Now I know why. Get this - the leftist talking points these days points to branding normal folks as inherent "authoritarian" and/or fascists, but am also finding that some view anti-communists as having "latent homosexual tendencies". In a nutshell, our respect for the institutions of government, police, law and order, rule of law, etc., is prima facie evidence of fascist thinking. It's no wonder Sen. McCarthy was maligned, - anyone espousing on this subject is immediately branded as a crackpot or worse. Still, if anyone suggested in 1955 that the Boy Scouts would be outlawed, smoking prohibited in bars, the Easter bunny verboten, and homosexuals "married"... (not that there's anything wrong with that) What do you suppose their reaction would be?

[AmeriBrit]

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