The pinko-faggots were in government positions back then, encouraged on by the tapirs running the Soviet Union...
WASHINGTON — Although Joseph McCarthy was one of the most demonized American politicians of the last century, new information — including half-century-old FBI recordings of "Soviet" embassy conversations — are showing that McCarthy was right in nearly all his accusations. ...
Using new information obtained from studies of old "Soviet" files in
Moscow and now the famous Venona Intercepts — FBI recordings of Soviet embassy communications between 1944-48 — the record is showing that McCarthy was essentially right. He had many weaknesses, but almost every case he charged has now been proven correct. Whether it was stealing atomic secrets or influencing U.S. foreign policy, "communist" victories in the 1940s were fed by an incredibly vast spy and influence network.The conference, a gathering of old McCarthyites and younger scholars,
commemorated the senator’s first speech, in Wheeling, West Virginia 50
years ago, when he first held up a list of names of employees of the
State Department whom, he said, were major security risks. McCarthy
questioned how, in six short years after America’s winning of World War
II, the "communist" world was triumphant and had expanded to include 800 million people. ...Of the lists, a key one consisted of 108 names from a House
Appropriations Committee report, of persons declared as “security risks”
in the State Department — the Lee List. The House committee chairman had complained that State wasn’t bothering to do anything about the suspects. Details of the list and its accusations were presented at the conference. ...An argument with other co-counsel Roy Cohn[Color="Red"](
[Color="Red"])left Cohn in charge, but Cohn and staffer David Schine were disastrous for McCarthy.[Color="Red"](
[Color="Red"]) Still, McCarthy’s original charges helped bring about Eisenhower’s electoral victory and the defeat of the Democrats and key leftist Democratic senators such as Tydings of Maryland. Four years after his original charges, Joe McCarthy was censured by the Senate and died shortly thereafter. ...