Grumpy lefties and VENONA

Dhlazare at aol.com Dhlazare at aol.com
Tue Dec 7 10:48:16 PST 1999


In a message dated 12/7/99 1:01:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, jktaber at dhc.net writes:

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To summarize kind of: Let's not defend the indefensible, but

on the other hand I don't have to take National Review's

word for it. If the National Review wants to smear some

dead old lefty based on the decrypts the decrypts had

better be there and support the smear.

>> I remember reading recently that "Wild Bill" Donovan, head of the wartime OSS, once passed secret info to a high-ranking GPU official over lunch in Washington. It was merely a way of establishing confidence with a military ally during the darkest days of WW2 -- no big deal. But it illustrates the point that context is all important. If Rosenberg was guilty, it was not of espionage but of bad timing, i.e. being a member of the CPUSA after the wartime alliance had passed.

Dan Lazare



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