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It didn't hurt that there were many traitors among FDR's administration.
by patrickg_zill 8y ago
It didn't hurt that there were many traitors among FDR's administration.
- Latteland 8y agoMaybe there were some, can you elaborate. Where's the evidence? I always thought there were a few american communists walking around then, but they had few misconceptions about the evil of russia if they paid attention at all. The big thing was the leader of the us was dying, probably of cancer.
- patrickg_zill 8y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_espionage_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_espionage_in_the_Unit... Also you can read up separately on Harry Dexter White. Edit to add: it wasn't until Khrushchev that the crimes of Stalin were revealed, and that was 1956. See the "Secret Speech" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Cult_of_Personality_and_Its_Consequences https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Cult_of_Personality_a...
- Latteland 8y agoThanks for the info. That was a good read. It was maybe a little more than I suspected, but I still think a lot of different countries had people from the US spying on them. I guess the communists in the US were true believers, instead of just economic agents. A lot of people were discovered by https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bentley https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bentley it looks like.