Time: Sun Nov 30 14:05:10 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA23411 for <pmitch@smtp-local.primenet.com>; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 14:01:02 -0700 (MST) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA09715; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 07:13:02 -0700 (MST) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd009681; Sun Nov 30 07:12:48 1997 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:50:25 -0800 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: "Communist Infiltration Deja Vu" (fwd) <snip> > >UNCANNY HISTORIC PARALLELS > >Communist Infiltration Deja Vu > >Exactly half a century ago, another scandal of Communist >infiltration of the U.S. government was unfolding. We would do >well to study the course of that investigation because the events >of this year so far to have followed the script written in 1947: > >(1) Republican Senator Joe McCarthy was one of the few who did >not accept the official finding of suicide of former Secretary of >Defense James Forrestal. "The Communists hounded Forrestal to >his death," he said. "They killed him just as definitely as if >they had thrown him from that sixteenth-story window in Bethesda >Naval Hospital." McCarthy said that he was affected deeply when >he heard of the Communist celebration when they heard of >Forrestal's murder. > >(2) In 1947, a Senate Appropriations subcommittee addressed a >secret memorandum to Secretary of State George Marshall, stating >that "It is evident that there is a deliberate, calculated >program being carried out not only to protect communist personnel >in high places but to reduce security and intelligence protection >to a nullity." > >(3) In 1948, former State Department employee and Communist >Whittaker Chambers publicly exposed State Department employee >Alger Hiss as a Communist Spy. Chambers' claims were dismissed by >the media. > >(4) In 1949, Senator McCarthy received a 100-page FBI report >alleging extensive Communist penetration of the State Department. >The FBI findings had fallen on deaf ears in both the Roosevelt >and Truman administrations. > >(5) When McCarthy convened hearings, he was attacked by Democrats >who did their best to obstruct his efforts. > >(6) Eighty-three witnesses pled the Fifth Amendment and refused >to answer questions about communist or espionage activities on >constitutional grounds. > >(7) Even though McCarthy produced evidence of the Soviet >Communist penetration of the U.S. government, the press killed >the messenger. He was viciously attacked by the New York Times, >the Washington Post, Time, Life, and Edward R. Murrow of CBS >News. > >(8) McCarthy was smeared with fabricated charges of using >improper means in seeking preferential treatment for G. David >Schine, a consultant to McCarthy's committee, prior to and after >Schine was drafted into the Army in November 1953. > >(9) In 1995, the National Security Agency declassified the Venona >intelligence intercepts of the 1940s, showing KGB cable traffic >referring to more than 200 Communist spies or contacts in the >U.S. State Department. > > > > >Revisionist history would later paint a picture of Joe McCarthy >as abusing U.S. Communist Party members in Hollywood, when his >real target were Soviet spies infiltrating the State Department. >McCarthy's vindication by the release of the Venona intercepts >was ignored because it did not fit that revisionist image. > >But Joe McCarthy's investigation did have one effect. After his >opponents had succeeded in diverting attention from the evidence >he had exposed and after the brouhaha had subsided, a few of the >Communist agents in the State Department were quietly let go. >Some went to China, and some, like John Stewart Service, started >writing for the New York Times, which, by the way, to this day >refuses to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence that Alger Hiss >was a Communist spy. > >On July 30, 1953, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, >chaired by Senator William Jenner, released its report >"Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments." Among its >conclusions: > > (*) The Soviet international organization has carried on a > successful and important penetration of the United States > Government and this penetration has not been fully exposed. > > (*) This penetration has extended from the lower ranks to top > level policy and operating positions in our government. > > (*) The agents of this penetration have operated in > accordance with a distinct design fashioned by their Soviet > superiors. > > >THE DAMAGE DONE > >So what's the big deal? What harm could a few hundred Communist >agents in the U.S. government in the 1940s possibly have done? >Condemned hundreds of millions of people to a life under >Communist horrors, that is what they did. > >Alger Hiss was a key aide in the 1945 Yalta Conference where >President Roosevelt condemned millions of people in the Baltic >states and in Eastern Europe to a life under Communist >dictatorship. Britain's Winston Churchill, also present at the >meeting, protested strenuously because he knew the fate that >would await the poor souls. But he was ignored by Roosevelt, who >considered Britain the enemy, and the Soviet Union the friend of >a "global New Deal" in a Soviet-American "democracy." Roosevelt's >picture of "Uncle Joe" as the good guy and Winston Churchill as >the bad guy was no doubt influenced by the Communists on his >staff. Roosevelt must have known that his staff was in reality >working for Joe Stalin. He had been shown evidence that Alger >Hiss was a Soviet spy already in 1939. Alger Hiss later that year >presided as the United Nations's first Secretary General at the >San Francisco Conference in April 1945. > >Many historians also hold the Communists in the State Department >responsible for letting China fall into the hands of Communists >in the late 1940s. Among those who said so at the time was a >young Congressman from Massachusetts who lamented that, "This is >the tragic story of China whose freedom we once fought to >preserve. What our young men had saved, our diplomats and our >President have frittered away." That congressman was John F. >Kennedy. > >Communism in China has claimed the lives of an estimated 35 >million people. It is a testament to the power of Communist >propaganda, then, that it is Joe McCarthy who has been cast as >the villain. > > > >THE PARALLELS OF THE 1990S > >(1) Congressman Dan Burton, a Republican from Indiana, was one of >the first to doubt the official finding of suicide in Fort Marcy >Park of White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster. > >(2) In 1996, author Gary Aldrich warned that the security check >system in the Clinton White House was being dismantled. > >(3) When William Safire in 1996 exposed John Huang as a suspected >Chinese agent, his charges were dismissed by the media. > >(4) In 1997, FBI leaked information to Bob Woodward that it had >known for six years that the Democrat party was infiltrated by >Chinese agents. > >(5) Ever since Burton announced that he was going to hold >hearings into Communist China infiltration of the U.S. >government, he has been viciously attacked by the Washington >Post, the New York Times, the Associated Press, and Dan Rather of >CBS News. A smear fabricated by a Democrat activist was >propagated by the Washington Post. > >(6) Thirty-Six witnesses have pled the Fifth Amendment to his >Committee, eleven have fled the country, and another eleven were >already living abroad and decline to testify. > >(7) Democrats on the Burton Committee have attempted to obstruct >and discredit the hearings. > > >Perhaps Dan Burton knows that a fate similar to that of Joe >McCarthy awaits him: his life and career will be destroyed, he >will be hounded until the day he dies. And revisionist history >will paint him as the villain, not the hero which is his rightful >legacy. > > >WHAT IS AT STAKE TODAY > >If Communist infiltration of the State Department in the 1940s >facilitated Communist expansion into Eastern Europe and China, >then what are the stakes today? The most immediate concern is >democracy in Taiwan. Red China desperately wants to submit this >"renegade province" that has the audacity to call itself the >Republic of China. That would condemn millions of free people to >enslavement, deportation, and bloody slaughter of dissidents. >Military exercises and military buildup in the PRC is in large >part targeted at a military annexation of Taiwan. Where will the >Clinton administration be when the conflict comes? It has refused >to give a clear answer. So absent has the Clinton administration >been on the issue, that House Speaker Newt Gingrich earlier this >year during a visit to China felt compelled to tell Chinese >officials directly that the United States would defend Taiwan >from mainland attack. But he is not the Commander in Chief. > > > Published in the Dec. 1, 1997 issue of The Washington Weekly > Copyright 1997 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com) > Reposting permitted with this message intact > <snip> =========================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell, Sui Juris : Counselor at Law, federal witness 01 B.A.: Political Science, UCLA; M.S.: Public Administration, U.C.Irvine 02 tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night 03 email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU 04 website: http://supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now 05 ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best 06 Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone 07 Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this 08 _____________________________________: Law is authority in written words 09 As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. 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