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The Web Of Subversion: Underground Networks in the U.S. Government

From Chapter 2: During the 1930’s and ’40’s an invisible web was spun over Washington. Its interlaced threads were extended to nearly every executive department and agency, to the military establishment, the White House itself, and to many of the committees of Congress. Through the records of the Congressional investigating committees and through the trials of Alger Hiss, the Communist leaders and the atom spies, part of the pattern of this web can now be traced. The existence of the web, and its general significance, are now, I think, beyond the doubt of any reasonable man who becomes acquainted with the evidence that has already been assembled. It is the business of this book to summarize this evidence, and to fit its scattered pieces together. That task will be easier if we understand from the outset that the web over Washington is only one section of a giant web that stretches with one or another degree of tenacity over the entire earth. Its center is Moscow’s Kremlin. This world-wide web is, of course, simply one embodiment of the Soviet Communist world conspiracy. In reality one should say that there are several interlacing webs, interlocked networks. They are part of the und

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