bripat9643
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The problem was that the people McCarthy tarnished as Communists or Communist sympathizers were not the real spies. Often, the information McCarthy used came from FBI files, which were full of rumor and third-hand accounts.
They weren't real spies? that's news to me. at the very least, they were all members of the Communist party, and they didn't belong in the posts they held. Mccarthy "tarnished" no one.
Several months before he died, I interviewed Robert J. Lamphere who participated in all the FBIs major spy cases during the McCarthy period.
McCarthyism did all kinds of harm because he was pushing something that wasnt so, Lamphere told me. The VENONA intercepts showed that over several decades, There were a lot of spies in the government, but not all in the State Department, Lamphere said.
Which proves exactly nothing.
However, The problem was that McCarthy lied about his information and figures. He made charges against people that werent true. McCarthyism harmed the counterintelligence effort against the Soviet threat because of the revulsion it caused."
Totally wrong. Not a single thing McCarthy said was a lie. Your author is a hack.