Podger,

Does the success, or lack thereof, alter the fact and intent of the infiltration? And does any nation's having survived a threat lead one to assume that they survived because they did nothing?

The very interesting quote provided by Don Firth (thanks for the extral effort, Don!), though it chose to slant the information in such a manner as to assume McCarthy didn't know he was right------he was indeed right.

I think it's a bigger stretch of imagination to assume he didn't know he was right than to assume he just couldn't prove that he was right......I mean, how many gov't scandals have been easily proven on the spot?

Tell Eastern Europe of the 40's-60's that the Soviet Union was no threat.

Last year Acoustic Guitar Magazine ran an article on the history of protest music. The article was pretty much fluff that many of you guys here at the Mudcat could easliy have written better both historically, musicologically, and even literarally. The thing I found interesting though is that it did the same thing that I've seen articles of this ilk do ever since the 60's-------It criticized those who accused Seeger of being a communist....without pointing out that Seeger was, indeed a Communist....and a proud one. Those articles lead the reader to believe that Seeger was falsely accused and that his accusers were villainous in their accusation. I didn't know for sure that Seeger proudly claimed his Communism until I read it in a 1999 article in Dirty Linen Magazine. Up to that point, I thought from articles I had read, that he had been falsely accused or that his "communist" philosophy did not entail the desired overthrow of the US government......it was a harmless, tamer communism that would merely confiscate and redistribute all the assets of America without actually overthrowing it