...support. (e) But these are not things that threaten the national security of the United States. These are things that make the Grand Alliance more capable, at the price of giving the USSR a better position for bargaining within it. (f) It's a leak of information to an... 7/
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...ally outside of normal channels, and as such a mistake. It does not look to me to be a security risk. But I could be wrong in reading the situation here. 8/END
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I would say that Israel is a very different kind of ally—it is not performing all of the heavy lifting in an existential struggle. But I take your point: Harry Dexter White should have been much more close-mouthed, and not been an idiot with respect to his judgments about... 1/
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I think it's a mistake to see NKVD as competent. That might be our core disagreement.
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The career of Richard Sorge suggests that even when USSR had legitimate intelligence coups they didn't know what to do with them.
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NKVD/GRU knew what to do with Klaus Fuchs & Julius Rosenberg—even if Fuchs & Rosenberg saw themselves as doing what Reagan wanted to do with SDI: give the technology to the Russians to make them feel safer. Philby & co. certainly wrecked the British spy system's ability to... 1/
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...do anything. But, yes, undoubtedly the most powerful and effective Soviet agents of influence in the post-WWII USA were named Joe McCarthy, Edward Teller, and James Jesus Angleton. 2/END
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The only thing I would add to that is that the USSR had its own counterparts to McCarthy, Teller & Angleton -- people who bungled and self-sabotaged their own intelligence gathering.
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