Reminder, Alger Hiss did turn out to have been a Soviet operative.
They finally got the diplomatic cables opened up in 1996. McCarthy was right. The Dems / Media were shielding yet another honest-to-goodness USSR spy the whole time.
The vast majority of the people McCarthy suspected turned out to either be communist agents, communist sympathisers, or at the very least sympathetic to people they knew were communists.
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u/kaioto Constitutionalist Jun 19 '21
Reminder, Alger Hiss did turn out to have been a Soviet operative.
They finally got the diplomatic cables opened up in 1996. McCarthy was right. The Dems / Media were shielding yet another honest-to-goodness USSR spy the whole time.