This is a prime example of how contrarian centrists are the useful idiots of the far-right.https://twitter.com/abigailmarone/status/1400831527995514883 …
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Right. There were a few years of serious espionage, used to justify decades of paranoia.
This is a woefully naive take.
he's talking about the Very Clever Boys such as yourself that decided there must be some merit to the lab leak theory because Mike Pompeo planted a dubious WSJ story about it
Setting aside that most Cold War liberals were not pro-McCarthy, I don't understand how these liberals were supposed to know that all the major spy rings had been broken, since Venona was secret.
Truman knew. But he over-hyped spy threat in any case because it was useful for selling Cold War. The argument is not Cold War liberals were pro-McCarthy but that they helped pave way for him -- it's a standard view among historians.
He can’t even get that right. LOL
Blunt, Philby, Burgess and McLean say Hi!
It’s “Venona”, “journalist” from The Nation.
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