Research the "Venona Papers." Declassified Soviet documents after the fall of the Soviet Union confirmed that McCarthy was correct about nearly everything he claimed. He was demonized for allegedly being wrong about a couple of people he claimed were commie infiltrators however.
But was he wrong, really? I'm not sure who he fingered that truly could've been proven wrong. I'm not deeply familiar with that episode, so I'm not sure who you're referring to, but to the best of my knowledge from all that and what we know about HollyWeird today, it's a fair bet he was right about all of them. ALL of them.
No, McCarthy was only wrong in that the extent of the Communist infiltration of the U.S. government was much deeper than he knew. He was a hero who the Democrats (and Hollywood, but I repeat myself) smeared mercilessly.
So the question is. Was he really very far off?
Research the "Venona Papers." Declassified Soviet documents after the fall of the Soviet Union confirmed that McCarthy was correct about nearly everything he claimed. He was demonized for allegedly being wrong about a couple of people he claimed were commie infiltrators however.
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But was he wrong, really? I'm not sure who he fingered that truly could've been proven wrong. I'm not deeply familiar with that episode, so I'm not sure who you're referring to, but to the best of my knowledge from all that and what we know about HollyWeird today, it's a fair bet he was right about all of them. ALL of them.
No, McCarthy was only wrong in that the extent of the Communist infiltration of the U.S. government was much deeper than he knew. He was a hero who the Democrats (and Hollywood, but I repeat myself) smeared mercilessly.
See Blacklisted by History by M. Stanton Evans