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Venona : Soviet espionage and the American response 1939-1957

"The muggy Washington summer of 1948 grew even hotter when news media reported that a 'blonde spy queen' three years earlier had given federal investigators convincing evidence of widespread Soviet espionage in America during World War II. In a few days the world learned her name—Elizabeth Bentley—and heard her and another ex-Communist agent, Whittaker Chambers, repeat their charges before Congress. Republican congressmen and candidates cited the stories as further evidence of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations' softness toward Communism and neglect of national security. Outraged officials both in and out of government, as well as Democrats fearing a campaign issue that would sink President Truman's apparently foundering re-election chances, insisted that Bentley and Chambers were peddling hearsay and innuendo." Digitized by www.csus.edu via cia.gov. · Includes bibliographical references · Title from screen title (viewed Jan. 11, 2012) · "Historical Document." · Posted: Mar 19, 2007; Last Updated: Jul 07, 2008 · Preserved in the OCLC Digital Archive. Harvested from https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-so

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