Taking on the anti-Communist mission locked McCarthy in mortal combat against powerful forces
by Phyllis Schlafly
…Scholar M. Stanton Evans’ monumental 663-page work, “Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1346," is the result of six years of reading primary sources.
…Evans’ vindication of McCarthy was made possible by recently released files, such as the Venona papers (the secret messages between Moscow and its U.S. agents decrypted by our government), data from Soviet archives, and executive-session transcripts of Senate committees that were finally opened after a 50-year ban. Evans’ book is copiously documented and reproduces some critical pages from never-before-released files.In the early 1950s, Joe McCarthy was one of the most popular men in America. Average Americans recognized him as Horatio at the Bridge battling against our nation’s sworn enemies, the Soviet Communists.
McCarthy understood, long before Ronald Reagan, that the Soviet Union was an evil empire, one of whose strategies was to infiltrate agents into our government in order to guide our policy to favor Communist goals. In fact, our government was much more infested with Soviet agents than McCarthy imagined.
It’s now well known that Communist agents imbedded in high-ranking positions included White House confidant Lauchlin Currie, State Department official Alger Hiss, and Treasury Department official Harry Dexter White. Evans quotes FBI files identifying atom bomb scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer as a secret Communist as early as 1942.
Taking on the anti-Communist mission locked McCarthy in mortal combat against powerful forces: two U.S. presidents, the vast federal bureaucracy, malicious adversaries in Congress, leftwing lobby groups, and the leftwing media who made him their daily target.
McCarthy was concerned only with Communists who influenced U.S. policies. He never targeted Communists in Hollywood or academia.
One of McCarthy’s early investigations exposed the gang of Communist agents embedded in our government whose mission it was to change U.S. policy to abandon our wartime ally Chiang Kai-shek and turn China over to the Communists. Owen Lattimore was the point man for articulating the Communist line, and the magazine Amerasia was the communications outlet for an interlocking network of Soviet agents.
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