FDR Admiration Society

[PoliticalChic]

You have no idea how stupid and ironic your post is......and someone that knows the real history like I do, I find it hilarious as well.

Tin foil hat history doesn't count

Nothing "tinfoil hat" about it...it is the truth that isn't printed in school text books.

Let me explain tinfoil hat history to you
People wear tinfoil hats to keep the evil gubmint from reading their thoughts. Your revisionist history involves our evil gubmint conspiring with the evil commies to sell out the world
I think tinfoil hat is an appropriate description of your historical perspective

Too bad the 100 million slaughtered by the Soviets....your progenitors......didn't have even tin hats to protect them.

Sure it wasn't 100 billion?

In another thread.... [http://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/integrity-on-sale.468412/]

....I posted this:
"It just doesn't matter to Leftist voter.

That's Liberals, Progressives, Democrats......socialists.

A guy could be a rapist.....(cough..BillClinton)

A traitor who tried to make a pact with Moscow....(coughcouthTedKennedy)

They shrug at the mention of the 100 million slain by their progenitors, the Soviet Communists.

Or...an indicted lying fraud of a Secretary of State....

No biggie."



And you come along and verify same.
Most appreciative.

 

[rightwinger]

Tin foil hat history doesn't count

Nothing "tinfoil hat" about it...it is the truth that isn't printed in school text books.

Let me explain tinfoil hat history to you
People wear tinfoil hats to keep the evil gubmint from reading their thoughts. Your revisionist history involves our evil gubmint conspiring with the evil commies to sell out the world
I think tinfoil hat is an appropriate description of your historical perspective

Too bad the 100 million slaughtered by the Soviets....your progenitors......didn't have even tin hats to protect them.

Sure it wasn't 100 billion?

In another thread.... [http://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/integrity-on-sale.468412/]

....I posted this:
"It just doesn't matter to Leftist voter.

That's Liberals, Progressives, Democrats......socialists.

A guy could be a rapist.....(cough..BillClinton)

A traitor who tried to make a pact with Moscow....(coughcouthTedKennedy)

They shrug at the mention of the 100 million slain by their progenitors, the Soviet Communists.

Or...an indicted lying fraud of a Secretary of State....

No biggie."



And you come along and verify same.
Most appreciative.

History according to Eva Braun

 

[PoliticalChic]

When the historic slaughter of 100 million human beings by your Soviet predecesors was noted, all you said was

"Sure it wasn't 100 billion?"

The Liberal shrug when their crimes are revealed.

Let's add this:

"The mass murder of seven million Ukrainians, three million of them children, and deportation to the gulag of two million more (where most died) was hidden by Soviet propaganda. Pro-communist westerners, like The New York Times' Walter Duranty, British writers Sidney and Beatrice Webb and French Prime Minister Edouard Herriot, toured Ukraine, denied reports of genocide, and applauded what they called Soviet "agrarian reform."

Those who spoke out against the genocide were branded "fascist agents." Seven million died in the 'forgotten' holocaust - Eric Margolis



"...hidden by Soviet propaganda." Much of which came from the Roosevelt White House.



What's your response....'too bad they weren't infants'?

 

[mamooth]

A Nazi sympathizer like PC is projecting her own genocidal lust on the decent people? How ironic.

Hitler lost. FDR and the liberals spanked him. Crying about it won't change that.

 

[PoliticalChic]

A Nazi sympathizer like PC is projecting her own genocidal lust on the decent people? How ironic.

Hitler lost. FDR and the liberals spanked him. Crying about it won't change that.

When you Roosevelt boot-lickers can't find any way to respond to the facts......documented facts....that I post, you can do nothing but resort to slander.

Did I mention that you are a low-life gutter snipe?
Or did everyone else already say that.

 

[regent]

Now that you have help do America a favor and get this information to the American historians as soon as possible. They seem to be unaware of this information and by not sharing it with them seems un-American. Surely with this information they will rewrite history as you have discovered it to be. What I would give to see the expressions on their faces as they open your heavily documented evidence. Keep em flying.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Undoubtedly our finest modern President

1. Got us out of the Depression
2. Dropped unemployment from 25% to 2%
3. Social Security
4. FDIC
5. National Labor Relations Act
6. Led us through WWII
7. Brought our military from 17 th in the world to number 1
8. Led us into the atomic age
9. Made the U.S. a Superpower
10. Laid the framework for the UN

Not bad for a cripple

Putting those slant eyes in concentration camps, keeping those darkies in their place and sending Jews fleeing Hitler back to Germany were masterful examples of a great President.

 

[regent]

Undoubtedly our finest modern President

1. Got us out of the Depression
2. Dropped unemployment from 25% to 2%
3. Social Security
4. FDIC
5. National Labor Relations Act
6. Led us through WWII
7. Brought our military from 17 th in the world to number 1
8. Led us into the atomic age
9. Made the U.S. a Superpower
10. Laid the framework for the UN

Not bad for a cripple

Putting those slant eyes in concentration camps, keeping those darkies in their place and sending Jews fleeing Hitler back to Germany were masterful examples of a great President.

So why does the Japanese-American's, the black, and the Jewish vote always seem to go for the party of FDR, the Democratic party?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Now that you have help do America a favor and get this information to the American historians as soon as possible. They seem to be unaware of this information and by not sharing it with them seems un-American. Surely with this information they will rewrite history as you have discovered it to be. What I would give to see the expressions on their faces as they open your heavily documented evidence. Keep em flying.

So....this obfuscation is, in actuality, an admission that there is not a single innocent American whose life was ruined by the hero, Senator Joseph McCarthy, with false accusations.

Exactly as I stated earlier.

For all your bloviation, all of you Roosevelt groupies fall flat on your faces when the name of any such individual is requested.


One wonders how you square proof that this experiment provides with your indoctrination.
You folks must be very, very stupid, or very, very dishonest.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Undoubtedly our finest modern President

1. Got us out of the Depression
2. Dropped unemployment from 25% to 2%
3. Social Security
4. FDIC
5. National Labor Relations Act
6. Led us through WWII
7. Brought our military from 17 th in the world to number 1
8. Led us into the atomic age
9. Made the U.S. a Superpower
10. Laid the framework for the UN

Not bad for a cripple

Putting those slant eyes in concentration camps, keeping those darkies in their place and sending Jews fleeing Hitler back to Germany were masterful examples of a great President.

So why does the Japanese-American's, the black, and the Jewish vote always seem to go for the party of FDR, the Democratic party?

Interesting that you didn't try to deny that Roosevelt has a long history of hostility toward blacks, Jews and Asians.


Yet you continue to worship this demigod.


"This attitude dovetails with what is known about FDR's views regarding immigrants in general and Asian immigrants in particular.... He recommended that future immigration should be limited to those who had "blood of the right sort." " FDR's troubling view of Jews

 

[regent]

Now that you have help do America a favor and get this information to the American historians as soon as possible. They seem to be unaware of this information and by not sharing it with them seems un-American. Surely with this information they will rewrite history as you have discovered it to be. What I would give to see the expressions on their faces as they open your heavily documented evidence. Keep em flying.

So....this obfuscation is, in actuality, an admission that there is not a single innocent American whose life was ruined by the hero, Senator Joseph McCarthy, with false accusations.

Exactly as I stated earlier.

For all your bloviation, all of you Roosevelt groupies fall flat on your faces when the name of any such individual is requested.


One wonders how you square proof that this experiment provides with your indoctrination.
You folks must be very, very stupid, or very, very dishonest.

I'm still waiting for the names of those commies in the State Department caught by McCarthy. In any case you might start with accurate numbers since McCarthy seemed to keep kept changing the numbers. So how many and what were their names?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Now that you have help do America a favor and get this information to the American historians as soon as possible. They seem to be unaware of this information and by not sharing it with them seems un-American. Surely with this information they will rewrite history as you have discovered it to be. What I would give to see the expressions on their faces as they open your heavily documented evidence. Keep em flying.

So....this obfuscation is, in actuality, an admission that there is not a single innocent American whose life was ruined by the hero, Senator Joseph McCarthy, with false accusations.

Exactly as I stated earlier.

For all your bloviation, all of you Roosevelt groupies fall flat on your faces when the name of any such individual is requested.


One wonders how you square proof that this experiment provides with your indoctrination.
You folks must be very, very stupid, or very, very dishonest.

I'm still waiting for the names of those commies in the State Department caught by McCarthy. In any case you might start with accurate numbers since McCarthy seemed to keep kept changing the numbers. So how many and what were their names?

Name them, you dolt.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Undoubtedly our finest modern President

1. Got us out of the Depression
2. Dropped unemployment from 25% to 2%
3. Social Security
4. FDIC
5. National Labor Relations Act
6. Led us through WWII
7. Brought our military from 17 th in the world to number 1
8. Led us into the atomic age
9. Made the U.S. a Superpower
10. Laid the framework for the UN

Not bad for a cripple

Putting those slant eyes in concentration camps, keeping those darkies in their place and sending Jews fleeing Hitler back to Germany were masterful examples of a great President.

So why does the Japanese-American's, the black, and the Jewish vote always seem to go for the party of FDR, the Democratic party?

Why do most women return to their abusive husbands?

Historical fact FDRs treatment of Asians, Jews and Blacks.
Probably why you worship him.

 

[rightwinger]

Undoubtedly our finest modern President

1. Got us out of the Depression
2. Dropped unemployment from 25% to 2%
3. Social Security
4. FDIC
5. National Labor Relations Act
6. Led us through WWII
7. Brought our military from 17 th in the world to number 1
8. Led us into the atomic age
9. Made the U.S. a Superpower
10. Laid the framework for the UN

Not bad for a cripple

Putting those slant eyes in concentration camps, keeping those darkies in their place and sending Jews fleeing Hitler back to Germany were masterful examples of a great President.

Very true
And Monday Morning Quarterbacking is a valuable tool
Both the Republicans and the Supreme Court supported the internment of Japanese citizens....as did an overwhelming majority of Americans
Same goes for allowing Jews to immigrate. Just look how conservatives today are reacting to Syrian refugees

Civil Rights was not politically expedient for FDR or the Republicans at that time. However, the great Elenore Roosevelt was one of the largest Civil Rights advocates of the era

 

[regent]

Now that you have help do America a favor and get this information to the American historians as soon as possible. They seem to be unaware of this information and by not sharing it with them seems un-American. Surely with this information they will rewrite history as you have discovered it to be. What I would give to see the expressions on their faces as they open your heavily documented evidence. Keep em flying.

So....this obfuscation is, in actuality, an admission that there is not a single innocent American whose life was ruined by the hero, Senator Joseph McCarthy, with false accusations.

Exactly as I stated earlier.

For all your bloviation, all of you Roosevelt groupies fall flat on your faces when the name of any such individual is requested.


One wonders how you square proof that this experiment provides with your indoctrination.
You folks must be very, very stupid, or very, very dishonest.

Well McCarthyism seemed to ruin one life and that was Senator McCarthy's. Would have to check to see how Shine and Cohen fared.

 

[rightwinger]

Now that you have help do America a favor and get this information to the American historians as soon as possible. They seem to be unaware of this information and by not sharing it with them seems un-American. Surely with this information they will rewrite history as you have discovered it to be. What I would give to see the expressions on their faces as they open your heavily documented evidence. Keep em flying.

So....this obfuscation is, in actuality, an admission that there is not a single innocent American whose life was ruined by the hero, Senator Joseph McCarthy, with false accusations.

Exactly as I stated earlier.

For all your bloviation, all of you Roosevelt groupies fall flat on your faces when the name of any such individual is requested.


One wonders how you square proof that this experiment provides with your indoctrination.
You folks must be very, very stupid, or very, very dishonest.

Well McCarthyism seemed to ruin one life and that was Senator McCarthy's. Would have to check to see how Shine and Cohen fared.

Roy Cohen died AIDS infected

 

[PoliticalChic]

Now that you have help do America a favor and get this information to the American historians as soon as possible. They seem to be unaware of this information and by not sharing it with them seems un-American. Surely with this information they will rewrite history as you have discovered it to be. What I would give to see the expressions on their faces as they open your heavily documented evidence. Keep em flying.

So....this obfuscation is, in actuality, an admission that there is not a single innocent American whose life was ruined by the hero, Senator Joseph McCarthy, with false accusations.

Exactly as I stated earlier.

For all your bloviation, all of you Roosevelt groupies fall flat on your faces when the name of any such individual is requested.


One wonders how you square proof that this experiment provides with your indoctrination.
You folks must be very, very stupid, or very, very dishonest.

Well McCarthyism seemed to ruin one life and that was Senator McCarthy's. Would have to check to see how Shine and Cohen fared.

I see you've decided to throw in the towel.

No fun.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Undoubtedly our finest modern President

1. Got us out of the Depression
2. Dropped unemployment from 25% to 2%
3. Social Security
4. FDIC
5. National Labor Relations Act
6. Led us through WWII
7. Brought our military from 17 th in the world to number 1
8. Led us into the atomic age
9. Made the U.S. a Superpower
10. Laid the framework for the UN

Not bad for a cripple

Putting those slant eyes in concentration camps, keeping those darkies in their place and sending Jews fleeing Hitler back to Germany were masterful examples of a great President.

Very true
And Monday Morning Quarterbacking is a valuable tool
Both the Republicans and the Supreme Court supported the internment of Japanese citizens....as did an overwhelming majority of Americans
Same goes for allowing Jews to immigrate. Just look how conservatives today are reacting to Syrian refugees

Civil Rights was not politically expedient for FDR or the Republicans at that time. However, the great Elenore Roosevelt was one of the largest Civil Rights advocates of the era

Comparing Jews from 1930's immigrating to Syrians of today is rather mind boggling.
Thanks to Merkle in Germany, we are justified in not wanting hundreds of thousands of foreign Muslims here. 3 Immigrant Muslims here in the past month have committed acts of terrorism.

But what is most telling is that like in the 1930's the world refuses to confront and squash evil, and instead chooses to deal with those fleeing.

 

[Dale Smith]

Now that you have help do America a favor and get this information to the American historians as soon as possible. They seem to be unaware of this information and by not sharing it with them seems un-American. Surely with this information they will rewrite history as you have discovered it to be. What I would give to see the expressions on their faces as they open your heavily documented evidence. Keep em flying.

So....this obfuscation is, in actuality, an admission that there is not a single innocent American whose life was ruined by the hero, Senator Joseph McCarthy, with false accusations.

Exactly as I stated earlier.

For all your bloviation, all of you Roosevelt groupies fall flat on your faces when the name of any such individual is requested.


One wonders how you square proof that this experiment provides with your indoctrination.
You folks must be very, very stupid, or very, very dishonest.

I'm still waiting for the names of those commies in the State Department caught by McCarthy. In any case you might start with accurate numbers since McCarthy seemed to keep kept changing the numbers. So how many and what were their names?

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 Venona 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, W. Va., 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 Romerstein, another speaker, who started out with the old House Un-American Activities Committee, is writing a book about the Venona 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 Venona Secrets, will be released by Regnery Gateway this fall.

Audiotapes of the “Accuracy in Academia” conference are available online.

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.

 

[Dale Smith]

Now that you have help do America a favor and get this information to the American historians as soon as possible. They seem to be unaware of this information and by not sharing it with them seems un-American. Surely with this information they will rewrite history as you have discovered it to be. What I would give to see the expressions on their faces as they open your heavily documented evidence. Keep em flying.

So....this obfuscation is, in actuality, an admission that there is not a single innocent American whose life was ruined by the hero, Senator Joseph McCarthy, with false accusations.

Exactly as I stated earlier.

For all your bloviation, all of you Roosevelt groupies fall flat on your faces when the name of any such individual is requested.


One wonders how you square proof that this experiment provides with your indoctrination.
You folks must be very, very stupid, or very, very dishonest.

Well McCarthyism seemed to ruin one life and that was Senator McCarthy's. Would have to check to see how Shine and Cohen fared.

The deciphered Venona messages also showed that a disturbing number of high-ranking U.S. government officials consciously maintained a clandestine relationship with Soviet intelligence agencies and had passed extraordinarily sensitive information to the Soviet Union that had seriously damaged American interests. Harry White--the second most powerful official in the U.S. Treasury Department, one of the most influential officials in the government, and part of the American delegation at the founding of the United Nations--had advised the KGB about how American diplomatic strategy could be frustrated. A trusted personal assistant to President Franklin Roosevelt, Lauchlin Currie, warned the KGB that the FBI had started an investigation of one of the Soviets' key American agents, Gregory Silvermaster. This warning allowed Silvermaster, who headed a highly productive espionage ring, to escape detection and continue spying. Maurice Halperin, the head of a research section of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), then America's chief intelligence arm, turned over hundreds of pages of secret American diplomatic cables to the KGB. William Perl, a brilliant young government aeronautical scientist, provided the Soviets with the results of the highly secret tests and design experiments for American jet engines and jet aircraft. His betrayal assisted the Soviet Union in quickly overcoming the American technological lead in the development of jets. In the Korean War, U.S. military leaders expected the Air Force to dominate the skies, on the assumption that the Soviet aircraft used by North Korea and Communist China would be no match for American aircraft. They were shocked when Soviet MiG-15 jet fighters not only flew rings around U.S. propeller-driven aircraft but were conspicuously superior to the first generation of American jets as well. Only the hurried deployment of America's newest jet fighter, the F-86 Saber, allowed the United States to match the technological capabilities of the MiG-15. The Air Force prevailed, owing more to the skill of American pilots than to the design of American aircraft.
And then there were the atomic spies. From within the Manhattan Project two physicists, Klaus Fuchs and Theodore Hall, and one technician, David Greenglass, transmitted the complex formula for extracting bomb-grade uranium from ordinary uranium, the technical plans for production facilities, and the engineering principles for the "implosion" technique. The latter process made possible an atomic bomb using plutonium, a substance much easier to manufacture than bomb-grade uranium.
The betrayal of American atomic secrets to the Soviets allowed the Soviet Union to develop atomic weapons several years sooner and at a substantially lower cost than it otherwise would have. Joseph Stalin's knowledge that espionage assured the Soviet Union of quickly breaking the American atomic monopoly emboldened his diplomatic strategy in his early Cold War clashes with the United States. It is doubtful that Stalin, rarely a risk-taker, would have supplied the military wherewithal and authorized North Korea to invade South Korea in 1950 had the Soviet Union not exploded an atomic bomb in 1949. Otherwise Stalin might have feared that President Harry Truman would stanch any North Korean invasion by threatening to use atomic weapons. After all, as soon as the atomic bomb had been developed, Truman had not hesitated to use it twice to end the war with Japan. But in 1950, with Stalin in possession of the atomic bomb, Truman was deterred from using atomic weapons in Korea, even in the late summer when initially unprepared American forces were driven back into the tip of Korea and in danger of being pushed into the sea, and then again in the winter when Communist Chinese forces entered the war in massive numbers. The killing and maiming of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians on both sides of the war in Korea might have been averted had the Soviets not been able to parry the American atomic threat.
Early Soviet possession of the atomic bomb had an important psychological consequence. When the Soviet Union exploded a nuclear device in 1949, ordinary Americans as well as the nation's leaders realized that a cruel despot, Joseph Stalin, had just gained the power to destroy cities at will. This perception colored the early Cold War with the hues of apocalypse. Though the Cold War never lost the potential of becoming a civilization-destroying conflict, Stalin's death in March 1953 noticeably relaxed Soviet-American tensions. With less successful espionage, the Soviet Union might not have developed the bomb until after Stalin's death, and the early Cold War might have proceeded on a far less frightening path.
Venona decryptions identified most of the Soviet spies uncovered by American counterintelligence between 1948 and the mid-1950s. The skill and perseverance of the Venona code-breakers led the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and British counterintelligence (MI5) to the atomic spy Klaus Fuchs. Venona documents unmistakably identified Julius Rosenberg as the head of a Soviet spy ring and David Greenglass, his brother-in-law, as a Soviet source at the secret atomic bomb facility at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Leads from decrypted telegrams exposed the senior British diplomat Donald Maclean as a major spy in the British embassy in Washington and precipitated his flight to the Soviet Union, along with his fellow diplomat and spy Guy Burgess. The arrest and prosecution of such spies as Judith Coplon, Robert Soblen, and Jack Soble was possible because American intelligence was able to read Soviet reports about their activities. The charges by the former Soviet spy Elizabeth Bentley that several dozen mid-level government officials, mostly secret Communists, had assisted Soviet intelligence were corroborated in Venona documents and assured American authorities of her veracity.

Venona