McCarthy warned us, but we didn\u2019t listen.\u00a0 On February 5, 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy published a name of 57 known communists working for the State Department.\u00a0 He said that allowing known communists or communist sympathizers in positions where they had access to sensitive information, and where they had input on policy making, constituted a serious threat to our national security. McCarthy was discredited and today McCarthyism is associated with an irresponsible witch hunt used to smear innocent people.\u00a0 But the problem is that most of the people investigated by McCarthy were not innocent at all.\u00a0 To our everlasting shame, Democrats were more interested in destroying McCarthy than they were in finding out if he was right.\u00a0 Republicans were more concerned about distancing themselves politically from McCarthy than they were in standing up to a threat to our national security.\u00a0 Even today, Republicans routinely run from a challenge, if threatened by being branded with McCarthyism.<\/p>\n
The Venona project started in 1942.\u00a0 It was a 38-year special project by the NSA to decode intercepted soviet dispatches.\u00a0 As a result of brilliant work by our cryptographers, it was established that there were <\/strong>soviet spies in our government, and many of them were arrested and convicted.\u00a0 Some of these people were very highly placed.<\/strong><\/p>\n Following is the official NSA summary of the Venoma project:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.nsa.gov\/about\/_files\/cryptologic_heritage\/publications\/coldwar\/venona_story.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n Although the main stream media downplayed the problem, General Omar Bradley, Army Chief of Staff knew better.\u00a0 He deliberately withheld direct information about Venona to President Truman and to his administration.\u00a0 (Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR was removed from the list of people given direct access to the code breaking of the Japanese diplomatic code.)\u00a0 The reason, in both cases, was that the security leaks from the White House were so serious that intelligence officials<\/span> felt, correctly, that our national security was at risk.\u00a0 While neither FDR, or Truman, were considered threats to our national security, many of their associates clearly were threats.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The Venona Project was not declassified until 1995.\u00a0 At first the liberal left tried to discredit the information because it did not fit with their widely held belief that people did not represent a threat just because they were communists.\u00a0 However, subsequent research into Soviet archives provided confirmation with regard to most of the people identified as threats to our security by the Venona project.\u00a0 The NSA kept working on translating these documents up until 1980.\u00a0 Ironically, if this information had been released in 1950, today we would be celebrating Joseph McCarthy as an American hero.<\/p>\n Now we once again have an administration where people have been appointed to critical positions with little or no regard to their potentially dangerous associations.\u00a0\u00a0One thing that is very clear from the Venona project and other documents is that the American Communist Party was an active participant in espionage against the United States of America.\u00a0 McCarthy felt that anyone who was a communist, or who had a close relationship with a communist, should be removed from sensitive positions.\u00a0 He did not try to blacklist them, or imprison them, he just considered them security threats who should not be allowed access to sensitive information.<\/p>\n It is important to note that there was more than just espionage.\u00a0 The Soviet Union also infiltrated people into positions where they could influence policy.\u00a0 Alger Hiss was a well known radical.\u00a0 He also happened to be a member of the Harvard Law review. \u00a0\u00a0His background was full of relationships with very radical people.\u00a0 But, he was a family friend of FDR, and even when FDR was directly confronted with evidence that Hiss might be a soviet spy, FDR ignored it.\u00a0\u00a0 Alger Hiss was a strong advocate for the socialist New Deal programs.\u00a0 He was also closely connected with Harry Wallace, who went on to become Vice President of the United States under FDR, from 1941 to 1945.\u00a0 Wallace was replaced by Truman in 1945.\u00a0 After FDR died, Wallace personally criticized Truman for his uncompromising stance against the Soviet Union.\u00a0 In 1948, Wallace ran for President of the United States for the Progressive Party.\u00a0 His campaign was literally managed by the communist party.\u00a0 By replacing Truman with Wallace, FDR just may have spared this country from having a communist or at least a fellow traveler, as President of the United States. \u00a0<\/p>\n Harry Hopkins, FDR\u2019s closest advisor, has been alleged to have been a soviet spy.\u00a0 A soviet defector, Oleg Gordievsky, was a KGB officer smuggled out of the Soviet Union by British intelligence.\u00a0 He claimed that Iskhak Ahkmerov, the KGB officer who controlled illegal soviet agents in the United States said that Hopkins \u201cwas the most important of all soviet wartime agents in the United States.\u201d\u00a0 We may never know whether this is true or not, but we do know that it was Hopkins who insisted that aid be extended to Stalin with no strings attached and it is even alleged that he\u00a0may have arranged for the shipment of uranium to the Soviet Union that allowed them to develop the atomic bomb.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.aim.org\/media-monitor\/the-treachery-of-harry-hopkins\/<\/a><\/p>\n Now fast forward to today.\u00a0 We have a President of the United States who was allegedly mentored, as a teenager, by a card-carrying communist, Frank Marshal Davis.\u00a0 The same President had a close personal relationship with William Ayers, who has admitted to conducting terrorist attacks designed to overthrow the government of the United States.\u00a0\u00a0 He has appointed numerous people with extreme left,\u00a0 radical, if not communist backgrounds, to high-level positions.\u00a0<\/p>\n Glenn Beck has been warning people that we ignore President Obama\u2019s radical connections to our peril.\u00a0 The main stream media is out to destroy Glenn Back as an out-of-control maniac.\u00a0 This is the same strategy that was successfully used to destroy Joseph McCarthy.\u00a0 (Of course McCarthy contributed to his own downfall.)\u00a0 \u00a0But, while they were successful in destroying Joseph McCarthy, that did not make them right.\u00a0 In restrospect, destroying McCarthy did\u00a0grave risk to our national security.\u00a0 Even if Obama himself is not a threat, history has proven that just appointing radicals people to positions of high influence is definitely a threat to our national security.<\/p>\n Now, the FBI has apparently arrested 10 Russians spies, who are allegedly long term agents \u201cSENT TO INFILTRATE POLICY MAKING CIRCLES.\u201d<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/jun\/29\/fbi-breaks-up-alleged-russian-spy-ring-deep-cover<\/a><\/p>\n They describe this as a long-term deep cover network of agents.\u00a0 I do not know the full significance of this event.\u00a0 But it at least appears that the Soviet Union never changed its strategy.\u00a0 We just stopped paying attention.\u00a0 Now, ask yourself:\u00a0 \u201cDoes this matter \u2026or not? \u00a0\u00a0I do not know if anyone appointed by Obama is a threat to national security.\u00a0 I do not know if anyone appointed by Bush, or Clinton or any other President was a security threat.\u00a0 However, at a minimum, shouldn\u2019t SOMEONE be asking the question<\/strong>?<\/p>\n TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" McCarthy warned us, but we didn\u2019t listen.\u00a0 On February 5, 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy published a name of 57 known communists working for the State Department.\u00a0 He said that allowing known 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