And the other names in the network— David Greenglass, this guy Sobell, and so forth in the delivery system. Right inside Alamagordo was the UK’s physicist Klaus Fuchs, who funneled everything directly to the Cambridge 5 (Kim Philby, Burgess,etc. and who could forget the last— the Queen’s Art Conservator Anthony Blunt. And most all of them, queers, flagrant flamers).
And we should never forget how all these got into place— during WWII. Such as Alger Hiss, and Harry Hopkins— about whom there is now NO doubt. Venona intercepts. And still.... the Hahhhhvahd Yawwwwle elite will never own up to their criminal acts, because, of course they are above mere patriotism and nationalism.
What is really interesting is Oppenheimer’s mistress living in Berkeley was setting up dates with Red Sparrow women to spy on many of the nuclear Scientists.
All the stories about her show her as just a woman in love.
She was a SPY.
Add in Theodore Gold and Harry Gold into the Rosenberg apparatus too.
The commies had a ton of agents working in the US, probably a tenth of what they have now with their conspirator dems working hand and hand with them.
I have come over time to be an amateur student of the state of Communism in the USA in the 1930’s well into the 1950’s.
I was fully engaged after I read Whittaker Chambers’ “Witness”. I came to realize three things after I read it:
ONE: Communist infiltration was pervasive in degrees ranging from simple dabblers to fully invested Soviet Agents.
TWO: Joseph McCarthy was spot on. He should be an American hero and venerated. His nearly single-handed efforts probably saved us up to two decades before the Communists in our country began to stick their heads up out of the ground again to where now it is open embraced and they are elected to office. He bought us time. Maybe not enough, but some.
THREE: The tactics of the Left are EXACTLY the same today as they were during the Hiss Perjury Trial. The Left is wedded to “the politics of personal destruction”. What the Left, in the form of the Truman Administration, the Democrat Party, and the Media tried to do to Whittaker Chambers was disgusting. They publicly insinuated he had homosexual relations with his then deceased brother. Unbelievable.
After I read that book, I could never watch television, read a newspaper or news magazine the same way. I couldn’t look at the education system the same way.
It was a transformative book for me. One of the absolute best books of that time, bar none, is M. Stanton Evans’ book “Blacklisted by History: Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight against America’s Enemies”. Written by a man who was a cub reporter at the time and saw that travesty with his own eyes.
Oddly, after I read “Witness”, one of the first books I read after that was Ann Coulter’s “Treason”. In the book, she talked about the trial in a way I had never heard it before. It was a case of listening to two people tell you a version of events, and both cannot be true. One or the other has to be false. So I did did something that the Internet allowed you to do: Download the transcripts of the McCarthy Hearings, particularly the one with Joseph Welch who uttered the famous “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
I went right to that specific hearing, and read the entire transcript. What I found affected me deeply.
The version of events I had been taught in schools, the books I had read, the articles and opinions of today, all painted McCarthy as an aggressive monster bent on slandering innocent people with baseless accusations, shouting them down, intimidating them, and doing it all for political capital.
When reading the transcripts, the reality was quite different as outlined by Ann Coulter in her book. He was a reasonable and polite man who conducted his hearings with equanimity. He gave his witnesses and the people he accused plenty of non-interrupted time to make their case, no matter how long or ridiculous. And in that specific hearing, his assistant (Roy Cohn) was subjected to extensive, sarcastic, and demeaning ridicule by Joseph Welch who was questioning him. McCarthy politely tried to intervene by appealing calmly to the hearing chair, but Welch kept on after multiple appeals. IIRC, it went on for about 45 minutes when finally McCarthy had enough resulting in the infamous exchange.
It tells you a lot about Leftists, that they have to lie to make their point, because if they tell the truth, they make our point.