MCCARTHY'S UN-AMERICAN WITCH HUNT THE BRAINCHILD OF A TRAITOR.(Lifestyle)(Review)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: February 13, 1999 | Copyright information

Like pathologists trying to explain a freak viral outbreak, American historians have been poring over the McCarthyist phenomenon for the past half-century, striving to explain how a small group of legislators, the House Un-American Activities Committee, managed to paralyze U.S. democracy and scar a generation.

But the great, ironic secret at the committee's roots has emerged only now, in Moscow. According to newly unearthed KGB files, the committee's founding father - the man who paved the way for Sen. Joe McCarthy's witch hunts - was a Soviet spy.

His name was Samuel ...

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