McCarthy was right. Samuel Dickstein, a Democrat from New York City, was a Stalin’s spy in the House of Representatives.

[Litwin]

Remember - Communist, spy, and traitor Samuel Dickstein was just the tip of the iceberg. McCarthy was right. The only problem with Senator Joe McCarthy’s investigation was that it didn’t go far enough...

" until 1999, when Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev published The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era, which through the use of previously unavailable KGB records went a long way toward convincing those who could be convinced that Alger Hiss and Julius Rosenberg were in fact working for the Soviet Union. The authors also revealed that Stalin had a spy in Congress, an exasperating character who once “blazed up very much, claiming that if we didn’t give him money he would break with us,” according to his Soviet contact. To this day, Sam Dickstein is the only known U.S. representative to have served as a covert agent for a foreign power. His codename was Crook."

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/samuel-dickstein-congressman-russian-spy-111641/

The Congressman Who Was Secretly Spying for the Soviets | National Review

Former New Jersey senator Bob Menendez was actually the second elected federal official to have served as a covert agent of a foreign power.

www.nationalreview.com

Why New York City Has a Plaza Named for A Soviet Spy | Military.com

www.military.com

 

[mikegriffith1]

Remember - Communist, spy, and traitor Samuel Dickstein was just the tip of the iceberg. McCarthy was right. The only problem with Senator Joe McCarthy’s investigation was that it didn’t go far enough...

" until 1999, when Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev published The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era, which through the use of previously unavailable KGB records went a long way toward convincing those who could be convinced that Alger Hiss and Julius Rosenberg were in fact working for the Soviet Union. The authors also revealed that Stalin had a spy in Congress, an exasperating character who once “blazed up very much, claiming that if we didn’t give him money he would break with us,” according to his Soviet contact. To this day, Sam Dickstein is the only known U.S. representative to have served as a covert agent for a foreign power. His codename was Crook."

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McCarthy was right more often than he was wrong. He got a lot of things right.

Joseph McCarthy and "McCarthyism": What Are the Facts?

 

[Litwin]

McCarthy was right more often than he was wrong. He got a lot of things right.

Joseph McCarthy and "McCarthyism": What Are the Facts?

I’ve never understood why Americans were supposed to believe it was a bad thing to root out our enemies and expose them. Do you have more academic material on this subject? Stalinist-Bolshevik penetration of the US in the 1920s–50s?

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Do you know that the killers have never been found — how is this even possible?

 

[mikegriffith1]

I’ve never understood why Americans were supposed to believe it was a bad thing to root out our enemies and expose them.

I can't resist, Fred. I can't resist pointing out that McCarthy posited an extensive pro-Communist conspiracy by traitors and moles in the U.S. Government, including a conspiracy to betray Chiang Kai-shek and to hand China over to Communist control. And I think he was right.

Of course, McCarthy was by no means the only conservative member of Congress who believed there was a Communist conspiracy in the U.S. Government to undermine the cause of freedom around the world.

Anyway, yes, I agree that it is strange that so many Democrats seemed to believe it was a bad thing to root out and expose traitors in the government.

 

[Litwin]

McCarthy posited an extensive pro-Communist conspiracy by traitors and moles in the U.S. Government, including a conspiracy to betray Chiang Kai-shek and to hand China over to Communist control.

I wouldn’t call it a pro‑Communist conspiracy by traitors and moles. Many Americans believed that the Bolshevik empire was on its way to take over the free world, so they simply joined what they thought was the winning side. By the way, did you know that Stalin used the same trick in Yugoslavia? It played out well for us: stalin´s hordes raped Serbian commie girls and Tito already had a big army, so the two commie regimes became enemies almost instantly

"Can't you understand if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometres through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?" said Joseph Stalin when Yugoslav communist Milovan Djilas complained about the Red Army rapes in his country.