This brilliant, meticulous, heavilly documented book by Stanton Evans is about much more than Joseph McCarthy, great patriot that he was, as is amply demonstrated herein and anyone who doesn't come away from this book with the belief that McCarthy was indeed a great warrior and patriot, hasn't bothered to read it in its entirety. Just as important, it presents a picture of Washington politics during WWII and the early cold war and provides an insightful and intimate view of the extent to which the FDR and Truman administrations were riddled by the penetration of top soviet agents at the highest levels. Evans presents some compelling, but as yet incomplete evidence that soviet agents in both Washington and Japan worked tirelessly to make the US and Japan buy into the inevitability of war between the two countries, thus facilitating WWII. Moreover, Evans documents the extent to which these gullible presidents ignored security issues, the extent to which they sold out China, the Balkans, and all of Eastern Europe to communist Russia, under the influence of some of their trusted advisors who were known (even at the time by the FBI as Evans shows) as top soviet agents working directly for Moscow. The FBI's findings were subsequently confirmed in the Venona decrypts when made public and Evans concludes that the FBI was definitely effective in gathering the evidence that many in the State Department were agents for Moscow at the time, although FDR and Truman ignored and denigrated Hoover's findings, even (in the case of the Truman administration)trying to blame the FBI for not briefing them when McCarthy and others made the information public. McCarthy was able to bring much of this information before the Senate in hearings, before the powers in and out of the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations ultimately destroyed him, thus alerting most Republicans (although the Eisenhower administration was unconsionably hostile to McCarthy) and many Democrats to the seriousness of the soviet penetration of all levels of government. As Evans sums up,"It's a remarkable but generally neglected fact that EVERY major McCarthy investigation in the period 1953-54 resulted in some significant change in governmental practice" (p. 604)
The lying tactics used by Truman, especially, attempted to cover up the fact that the State Department was not only run by communists, (Hiss, Vincent, Service, and dozens of others, and White, Adler, Coe and others in Treasury) but the Secretary of State, General George C. Marshall, and Under Secretary, Dean Acheston, appear to have been either communists, communist sympathizers, or useful idiots. For example, Truman was repeatedly warned about White, Hiss, Robert Oppenheimer, Service and other top soviet spies by the FBI as is minutely documented in this book, but he completely ignored the warnings. Whether Oppenheimer passed Atomic secrets to the Soviets is another detailed book that still needs to be written, as far as I know. A speech that Acheson gave on Jan 12, 1950, literally invited the communist North Koreans to invade South Korea, which they did on June 25, 1950, thus beginning a "police action" as Truman called it that resulted in the deaths of thousands of American soldiers. In this context, and with much of the evidence Evans makes public for the first time, a re-evaluation of the McArthur-Truman showdown, and the context in which it took place during the Korean "police action" is in order.
Evans documents specific communists and their written comments who were able to shape the Truman state department, such as Prof. Owen Lattimore (and earlier the FDR administration) to pull off these enormous land and people give aways to the communists world wide, leading to over an estimated 100 million deaths attributed to communists before the fall of the Soviet Union.
The tactics used against McCarthy are documented in this book in great detail and provide some of the best evidence available of the treasonous deceptions of some in the Democratic Party 70 years ago, which are the same strategies as used by the Marxists who control the party today. Nothing has changed - except that the lies are bigger and more and more of the American Public is "too busy", too ignorant or too lazy to learn what's going on. Even conservatives who have suspected or known some of the information presented by Evans for over half a century will find this book stunning in its revelations. It will open eyes and teach lessons well worth knowning for today's world. Far from being "Old News" as the marxists are trying to argue with the publication of this book, it contains such detailed facts, never-before-published-for-the-general-public, that there are literally more than 600 pages power-packed with new information. I can't recommend it too highly.
Patricia A. Helvenston, Ph.D.
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