one of the saddest cases to come out that period was the husband of the editor of the washington post: phil graham husband of martha graham.
It was her newspaper, or rather, her dad's newspaper. Graham married into the family. He was groomed to take over the newspaper.
However, during the McCarthy period he was one of the few people who were advised of the contents of the Venona cables.
Never the less, he was unable to stop the Washington Post's attack on everything to do with McCarthy-because by that time the communists had convinced the media that McCarthy was a set up for a pogrom. They took what stalin attempted to do with the doctor's plot and applied it to the republicans in general people like nixon in particular. anyone who sided with McCarthy was immediatly suspect and definitely out.
For someone like graham the difference between the image and the reality was too much. after embarrassing himself with some extra marital flings he committed suicide.
The sad and crazy thing is that martha graham died after the release of the venona cables...but she never understood.
You do not have to convice your Komrades of anything.