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How can we account for our present situation unless we believe that
men high in this Government are concerting to deliver us to disaster?
This must be the product of a great conspiracy, a conspiracy on a
scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history
of man. A conspiracy of infamy so black that, when it is finally
exposed, its principals shall be forever deserving of the maledictions
of all honest men.
-Joseph McCarthy, June 14, 1951
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Most-hated senator was right Scholars: Joseph McCarthy's charges
'now accepted as fact'
By Jon Basil Utley © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON -- Although Joseph McCarthy was one of the most
demonized American politicians of the last century, new information --
including half-century-old FBI recordings of Soviet embassy
conversations -- are showing that McCarthy was right in nearly all his
accusations.
"With Joe McCarthy it was the losers who've written the history
which condemns him," said Dan Flynn, director of Accuracy in
Academia's recent national conference on McCarthy, broadcast by
C-SPAN.
Using new information obtained from studies of old Soviet files in
Moscow and now the famous Vanona Intercepts -- FBI recordings
of Soviet embassy communications between 1944-48 -- the record is
showing that McCarthy was essentially right. He had many
weaknesses, but almost every case he charged has now been proven
correct. Whether it was stealing atomic secrets or influencing U.S.
foreign policy, communist victories in the 1940s were fed by an
incredibly vast spy and influence network.
The conference, a gathering of old McCarthyites and younger
scholars, commemorated the senator's first speech, in Wheeling, West
Virginia 50 years ago, when he first held up a list of names of
employees of the State Department whom, he said, were major
security risks. McCarthy questioned how, in six short years after
America's winning of World War II, the communist world was
triumphant and had expanded to include 800 million people.
Of the lists, a key one consisted of 108 names from a House
Appropriations Committee report, of persons declared as "security
risks" in the State Department -- the Lee List. The House committee
chairman had complained that State wasn't bothering to do anything
about the suspects. Details of the list and its accusations were
presented at the conference.
Speakers detailed many of the cover-ups used to smear McCarthy.
Veteran journalist and teacher Stan Evans, director of National
Journalism Center, told of the Tydings Committee, which had
investigated McCarthy's charges of communists in government. Its
report had exonerated everybody. Among the accused it stated
categorically that there was no evidence against Owen Lattimore, a
man McCarthy said was a major figure in the communist conspiracy.
Lattimore had been Roosevelt's key advisor on China policy. Yet
Evans showed evidence from 5,000 pages of FBI files on him -- files
released only a few years ago to the public, although the White House
had access to them.
However, evidence before the committee showed that Lattimore had
supported Soviet policy at every turn, even declaring that the Stalin
purge trials in Russia, "sound like democracy to me." With then-Vice
President Henry Wallace in Russia, Lattimore compared
concentration camps to the Tennessee Valley Authority, and later
urged Washington to abandon China to communism and to withdraw
from Japan and Korea. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, who had fed
information to McCarthy, broke with him afterwards, fearing
McCarthy would prejudice FBI sources of information for its criminal
prosecutions.
Although most of McCarthy's cases involved actual spies and
"security risks," the really important issue was that of communist
influence over American foreign policy, argued Evans. Harry
Hopkins, Roosevelt's closest advisor who lived in the White House,
had regular contacts with Soviet intelligence. He helped bring about
the disastrous Yalta and Pottsdam agreements. The Morganthau Plan,
to prevent German reconstruction and starve the Germans to make
them desperate enough to go communist, was the product of Laughlin
Currie and Harry Dexter White at the Treasury Department. The
abandonment of Chiang Kai-shek by denying military support was the
product of "China Hands" led by John Stewart Service, John Patton
Davies, and Lattimore. Evans described other major spy networks --
in England, the Burgess Maclean group which infiltrated Washington
as well as London.
Reed Irvine, chairman of Accuracy in Media, told how he himself had
been a leftist in his early career. He had been against McCarthy, but
McCarthy's speeches had made him think and start to read "evidence
that I had avoided." He described how all during his military career as
a Marine officer and later in Japan with the U.S. occupation he had
never hidden his leftist views and later had even been offered a job at
the CIA. Irvine argued that real communists were only in the
hundreds, but that thousands of leftists, such as he, all feared
McCarthy and had wanted him discredited.
Pulling all the latest evidence together was luncheon speaker
Professor Arthur Herman. His new book, "Joseph McCarthy:
Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator,"
and featured in the Sunday New York Times Magazine, shows the
vindication of most of McCarthy's charges. Herman, who is also
coordinator of the Smithsonian's Western Heritage Program, said that
the accuracy of McCarthy's charges "was no longer a matter of
debate," that they are "now accepted as fact." However, the term
"McCarthyism" still remains in the language.
Asked whether McCarthy had understood all the forces arrayed
against him, Herman said no, that McCarthy hadn't realized he'd be
fighting against much of the Washington establishment. President
Truman was fearful that exposures would reflect on key Democrat
officials, he said, and big media and the academic world were very
leftist, a heritage of the Depression and World War II. High
government officials also feared investigations of their past
appointments and associations with people who turned out to be
communists or sympathizers.
That was the reason McCarthy was so demonized, he said.
Joe McCarthy had been a Marine air gunner, an amateur boxer, a
county judge and towards his end, under constant attack, he began to
drink heavily. Herman said he certainly was over his head and his fall
came about after sweeping attacks on General Marshall and the
Army. Senator Taft and other key supporters began to draw away
from him.
If Robert Kennedy, his competent and well-connected co-counsel,
had stayed on, McCarthy might have behaved more carefully, said
Herman. An argument with other co-counsel Roy Cohn left Cohn in
charge, but Cohn and staffer David Schine were disastrous for
McCarthy. Still, McCarthy's original charges helped bring about
Eisenhower's electoral victory and the defeat of the Democrats and
key leftist Democratic senators such as Tydings of Maryland. Four
years after his original charges, Joe McCarthy was censured by the
Senate and died shortly thereafter.
There is more evidence to come. Herb Rome Stein, another speaker,
who started out with the old House Un-American Activities
Committee, is writing a book about the Vanona FBI intercepts and
their links to other evidence from his comprehensive study in Russia of
Soviet archives, made available to Westerners since the fall of
communism. His book, The Vanona Secrets, will be released by
Regnery Gateway this fall.
Jon Utley, a former foreign correspondent in Latin America and a
longtime commentator for the Voice of America, is the Robert A. Taft
Fellow for Constitutional and International Studies at the Ludwig von
Mises Institute.
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Related articles:
http://members.tripod.com/~BioLeft/mccarthy.htm
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1951mccarthy-marshall.html
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"I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five [people] that
were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the
Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping
the policy of the State Department."
-Joseph Raymond McCarthy, speech, Wheeling, West Virginia, Febuary 9, 1950
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