TL;DR:
A LOT of people suspected as being communist agents...were.
And the USA couldn't reveal HOW they knew it without revealing that they had the intel.
Venona project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In fact, McCarthy was kinda right...the US Government was RIFE with spies.
In fact, a bunch of people called before congress...WERE agents...but the US Government was hesitant to prove it for fear of exposing the fact they cracked soviet intelligence.
I know this is Glenn Beck
...but he's 100% right about this:
A LOT of people suspected as being communist agents...were.
And the USA couldn't reveal HOW they knew it without revealing that they had the intel.
Venona project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In fact, McCarthy was kinda right...the US Government was RIFE with spies.

In fact, a bunch of people called before congress...WERE agents...but the US Government was hesitant to prove it for fear of exposing the fact they cracked soviet intelligence.
I know this is Glenn Beck
...but he's 100% right about this:

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