# 4 OF 13 - U.S.A. COMMUNISTS IN "THE VENONA SECRETS"!

# 4 OF 13 - U.S.A. COMMUNISTS IN "THE VENONA SECRETS"!

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONE.BLOGSPOT.COM - WED. AUG. 28/19

Ref. "The Venona Secrets" - Exposing Soviet Espionage and American Traitors" by Herbert Somerstein and Eric Breindel, Regnery Publishing, Inc. Washington, D.C. 2000.

Excerpts from "Preface":

     Eric Breindel and I had been friends for about fifteen years at the time the National Security Agency (NSA)  began releasing the Venona documents in 1995. Venona was the U.S. code word given secret Soviet spy communications, equivalent to the word Ultra used for the Nazi secret messages...

   
  After returning from Korea, I worked for the State of New York investigating Communist summer camps for children and charity rackets in which innocent people contributed money to supposedly good causes - money instead that went for Communist propaganda. In 1965, I became investigator for the House Committee on Un-American Activities and from 1971 to 1975 I was I was the minority chief investigator for its successor, the House Committee on Internal Security...

    It was obvious that the earlier view of the U.S. government - that American Communists because of their loyalty to the Soviet Union might spy on their own country - WAS TRUE, BUT IT DID NOT GO FAR ENOUGH,  Venona , together with other sources, made it clear that American Communists with access to sensitive information were expected by the Party to turn it over to the Soviets. ... Earl Browder, head of the American Communist Party, was deeply involved in recruiting Party members and vetting them for espionage. ...

  
  ESPIONAGE BY AMERICAN  COMMUNISTS PROVIDED THE SOVIET UNION WITH AN ATOM BOMB YEARS BEFORE IT'S SCIENTISTS COULD HAVE PRODUCED ONE, and subsequently the threat of atomic warfare enabled the Soviet Union to project its power and influence Western thinking. Soviet-controlled agents in the U.S. government during World War II helped the USSR achieve its goals in Central Europe and Asia.  The existence of Soviet controlled governments in Eastern Europe and the Far East provided a valuable asset to the Soviet side in the Cold War. THESE SUCCESSES WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE ACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF AMERICAN COMMUNISTS...

    But was it correct to view the Soviet Union as the "focus of evil" in the postwar world? (This concept, first advanced in the early 1950s by TIME magazine editor and Alger Hiss accuser Whittaker Chambers, resurfaced in the speeches of President Ronald Reagan some three decades later.) Was it valid to see Soviet Communism as an ideology no less pernicious than Nazism? ...

    
 President Reagan was right... "focus of evil" characteristics were identical to Nazi Germany's, including mass murders, slave labor camps and an insatiable desire for new territory... The Communist party USA leadership and its rank and file were composed of Americans who willfully gave their primary allegiance to a foreign power, the USSR.... Communist Party members managed to secure footholds in highly sensitive areas of American life. This was especially true during the New Deal years and the subsequent wartime U.S.-Soviet Alliance.

   
 The taboo on discussing who was a Communist placed violators at risk of being denounced as "Red-baiters" - an unpleasant and chilling but less-than-chilling prospect.... American apologists managed finally to fight its way into the public square, a bodyguard of lies continued to protect the Communist Party USA from ACADEMIC  INQUIRIES INTO ITS ESPIONAGE ROLE. ...

 
 In short, the inarguable fact that crimes against humanity have been a feature of national life wherever Communism have seized power has implications that fewer and fewer Americans can ignore.

[I am thinking of the ruthless Communist regimes in Cuba and Vietnam, etc.]

    It is clear that the Moscow's agents in the United States helped prevent an earlier Nazi surrender to the Anglo-Americans - the prospects of which haunted the USSR throughout the war.... Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (traitor) Harry Dexter White played a key role in this Soviet endeavor... DOCUMENTS RECENTLY RELEASED IN THE FORMER USSR, MOREOVER, DEMONSTRATE THAT, ABSENT AN ATOMIC BOMB, STALIN WOULD NOT HAVE UNLEASHED PYONGYANG'S ARMY TO CONQUER THE ENTIRE KOREAN PENINSULA.... George H. Kubeck