Grumpy lefties and VENONA

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Tue Dec 7 15:06:01 PST 1999



>>> "John K. Taber" <jktaber at dhc.net> 12/07/99 12:56PM >>
Mike, I thought you made a good comment before that lefties should not defend the indefensible. Based on the VENONA decrypts there isn't a doubt in my mind that Julius Rosenberg illegally helped to pass atomic secrets to the Soviets.

But the pointer you gave to the National Review article squawking about Jacob Weisberg's article in the NY Times Magazine did not reassure me that all accusations against lefties are based on the VENONA decrypts, or that even based on the decrypts, the accusations are reasonable.

In particular, accusations that IF Stone was a Soviet agent, based on the VENONA decrypts, seem to me overblown. This was Weisberg's protestation that the Jonah Goldberg article in NR did nothing to dispel.

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Charles: I am curious as to how one feels certain about the authenticity of any of these newly released materials from the fSU. When I was reading some of that NYT stuff, I was thinking , "those ex-Soviet spooks would sell U.S. people anything nowadays. How is it trustworthy ? How do we know they didn't make it up for the cash ?

None of it would be admissable in court. It is not reliable evidence at this point.

Also, I was thinking, who cares if IF Stone was an agent ?

CB



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