4. Soviet spies like Dexter White and Alger Hiss offered USA government more valuable & accurate advice than renegade red Whittaker Chambers
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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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10. Old Cold War joke: State Dept. so infiltrated by KGB & CPUSA infiltrated by FBI, so USA is saved by a communist take-over of gov't.
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@PatrickIber No, I hadn't heard that one before. But sounds totally plausible. After 1956/57, CPUSA must have been 10% FBI, no.
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@HeerJeet The one about the USA dropping extra large condoms on USSR stamped "Made in USA: Medium" was a training joke for CIA recruits0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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