5. Mid-and-late-1940s, Soviet spies told USA gov't, rightly, that Mao had popular support, wasn't going away, and USA gov't should talk to
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6. Conversely, Chambers & other ex-Reds said, absurdly, that Mao's success was due almost entirely to spy ring in Washington.
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7. Flip side of this paradox is most ardent revolutionary almost always turns out to be an agent provocateur.
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8. One of Alger Hiss's big causes was supporting the foundation of Israel (which USSR, of course, also supported).
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9. One of these days, I'll do a trolly piece on how Dexter White and Hiss should be heroes to liberal hawks and neo-cons.
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@PhillipsPasha Nixon's policies of early 1970s were kind of an admission that Owen Lattimore, Hiss, etc. were right all along.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@PhillipsPasha I'm 95% confident Hiss was a Soviet spy -- my argument is that this doesn't mean policies he advocated were bad.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@PhillipsPasha A great book but also a crazy one. WC explicitly says Communist revolution in China was due to Washington spies.
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