1. Vox piece on Harry Dexter White, Soviet spy & helped craft USA led economic order, speaks to larger paradox:http://www.vox.com/2014/8/24/6057119/harry-dexter-white-ben-steil …
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@HeerJeet Reminds me of the joke about John Edgar Hoover winning the election to be CPUSA pres, because all the members were FBI agents. -
@jacremes Also story of how congress was going to cut FBI funding, so Hoover sent more agents to join CPUSA & said red threat on the rise. - Show replies
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read the whole thread. If you like paradoxy things and stuff.
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11. Weren't Nixon's polices of early 1970s an admission that Owen Lattimore & Alger Hiss had the right ideas all along?
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@HeerJeet Plus, a few spies here and here are good for trust, since you can see if diplomats mean what they say. Was problem after firings -
@PatrickIber Interesting point. So spies serve as a kind of de facto back-channel. - Show replies
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