Diana West's book American Betrayal(2013) summarises how badly infiltrated the FDR admin was before and during WWII to the point that you could say that US basically played the part of Stalin's stooge.
McCarthy was late on the scene and same thing that happened to McCarthy had already happend to Martin Dies, the man who created HUAC. The funny thing is, the other HUAC founder, was himself a Soviet agent.
Dies and Samuel Dickstein created the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities, initially nicknamed the Dies Committee, later becoming HUAC in 1946. Dies was its first chairman, serving for seven years from 1938 to 1944, and declaring a crusade against right-wing and left-wing subversives in the government, and other organizations nationwide. Dies' committee mainly targeted communist infiltrators and sympathizers. Samuel Dickstein was named in the 1990s as a Soviet agent in the Venona project materials.
Below is what she glaned from books by Robert E. Stripling( Chief Investigator, House Un-American Activities Committee, 1938–1948 ) and Eugene Lyons( a communist who later became anti-Soviet).
Interestingly enough, Stripling notes that Dies Committee investigations into German, Japanese, and Italian subversive activities in the run-up to World War II were widely lauded, even inspiring government action—as when an investigation into Adolf Hitler’s use of German diplomatic and consular officers as spies in this country led FDR to shut German consulates down.
“But,” Stripling continues, “whenever we cast an inquiring eye on the equally subversive activities of the Communist Party, we were instantly assailed, though the strongest microscope could not differentiate between the nature of the Party’s conspiracy and that of the Germans, Japanese and Italians.”17
Lyons, too, observed this same double standard at work, noting the favorable reception studies of fascism and Nazism in America typically received. “We have yet to hear their authors denounced as brownbaiters, black-baiters or silver-baiters,” he writes, noting the colors adopted by fascist and Nazi followers. On the contrary, “the charges [against fascists and Nazis] are assayed on the basis of their truth or falsity. They are not arbitrarily dismissed with a hackneyed epithet. There is yet among us, it happens, no taboo against examining and if necessary condemning the operation of Mussolini, Hitler and their direct or indirect agents.”18 Not so Communism in the 1930s, Lyons’s “red decade,” or the 1940s, which Stripling would look back on, noting, “Of course, we fully expected to be smeared by leading Communists and by ‘The Daily Worker’ and its abusive carbon copies. But we did not expect what often became an avalanche of abuse from more conservative quarters— from men as high in public esteem as Franklin D. Roosevelt.”
And here is McCarthy himself on Democrats and communists,
Diana West's book American Betrayal(2013) summarises how badly infiltrated the FDR admin was before and during WWII to the point that you could say that US basically played the part of Stalin's stooge.
McCarthy was late on the scene and same thing that happened to McCarthy had already happend to Martin Dies, the man who created HUAC. The funny thing is, the other HUAC founder, was himself a Soviet agent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Dies_Jr.#House_Committee_Investigating_Un-American_Activities
Below is what she glaned from books by Robert E. Stripling( Chief Investigator, House Un-American Activities Committee, 1938–1948 ) and Eugene Lyons( a communist who later became anti-Soviet).
And here is McCarthy himself on Democrats and communists,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iGGjGSdqf8
Here's her recent interview from February talking about the book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns5b-qc5m8o