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Article: Soviet collaborator, intelligence in Pacific.(BOOKS)(ESPIONAGE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 9, 2004
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Byline: Joseph C. Goulden, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Upwards flare one's arms in frustration at the latest ploy by the academic left to excuse work done by high officials of the Roosevelt administration - some of it surely meeting the definition of espionage - on behalf of the wartime Soviet Union.
All save the more diehard (i. e., foolish) defenders of such figures as Alger Hiss have finally shut up about the basic issue of guilt, especially since the 1996 release of the Venona papers, intercepts of 1943-45 Soviet intelligence messages.
The same papers directed a condemning finger at Harry Dexter White, a high Treasury department ...