[lbo-talk] Fwd: Letter to the Editor in Defense of the Hollyw ood Blacklist of Communists

[Curtiss_Leung at ibi.com]

Ah, the archives.  Just like the Venona decrypts "proved"
I.F. Stone was a Soviet agent?  A pretty low standard of
proof, if you ask me.

I don't know how people here feel about Murray Kempton's
_Part of Our Time_, but his take on Hollywood screenwriters
who refused to testify is interesting.  They were party
members, they were given to vicious and petty infighting,
and they lived lives of considerable luxury--but they
did not at all deserve what they got at the hands of the
House Un-American Activities Committee, and their refusal
to testify was their finest hour.

Curtiss


> Years ago I listened to a fellow on the NPR interview
> program "Fresh Air" discuss his (then new) book about
> how McCarthyism was justified because the Soviets had,
> in one form or another, been in contact with many of
> the Americans grilled and ruined by sweaty Joe.


> "The recently released Soviet archives prove it" he
> said.