Freedom's Enemies: A collaborator of the Rosenbergs admits his previously unknown Soviet espionage more than 60 years after the fact. It's just the latest revelation that the anti-communists of that era were right.
The "innocent victims" of the Red Scare were once legion — like suave U.S. envoy Alger Hiss, who doubled as a Soviet spy chief, and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who gave Moscow A-bomb plans.
The latest debunking of this myth is Rosenberg fellow spy Morton Sobell, who finally admitted it in 2008. But in a December interview with Ronald Radosh and Steven Usdin, Sobell, 93, added that he gave hundreds of secret Air Force documents to the Soviets in 1948.
Sobell also fingered William Perl, who had been attending the City College of New York with Sobell and Julius Rosenberg, and worked at a Virginia Army air base during World War II. Perl had denied wrongdoing, but was convicted of perjury in 1953.
"I did it for the Soviet Union," said Sobell, a Red-diaper baby whose parents were both Communist Party members who hosted meetings in their home.
In case you didn't know, the secret communists of 20th century history and their pawns have just been rolling out from under the bed in recent years.
British historian Christopher Andrew in 2005 revealed that Salvador Allende, elected president of Chile in 1970 on a 36% plurality and the first Marxist ever to win power through the ballot box, was for all intents a KGB agent.
"What Allende's KGB file describes as 'systematic contact' with him began after the establishment in 1961 of a Soviet trade mission in Chile, which provided cover for a KGB presence," Andrew notes in his book, "The World Was Going Our Way."
Speaking of Chile, recently declassified FBI files reveal that a 29-year-old then-junior prosecutor in Massachusetts named Edward Kennedy on a 1961 tour of Latin America "made arrangements to 'rent' a brothel" in Santiago "for the night," and "met with a number of individuals known to have communist sympathies."
Author Paul Kengor several years ago revealed that a May 14, 1983, highly classified letter from the head of the KGB to Soviet premier and former KGB chief Yuri Andropov found the so-called Lion of the Senate trying to collude with the Kremlin on undermining President Reagan's defense policies.
Even the so-loathed Sen. Joseph McCarthy has been rehabilitated, by M. Stanton Evans in "Blacklisted by History." Evans illustrates, for example, that U.S. Army counsel Joseph Welch's famed "Have you no decency?" line during McCarthy's televised hearings was actually a melodramatic deceit; Welch himself had weeks earlier fired the "young lad" he accused McCarthy of slandering, admitting that he was indeed a member of the National Lawyers Guild Communist front group.
The evidence just keeps coming that most of what those irresponsible "Red baiters" were saying in the 1950s was right.
Poster Comment:
McCarthy was right and so was Gen Pinochet.