It's strange to me that the Venona Project, run by the NSA from the middle of WW2 until 1980 and not declassified until 1995, is not mentioned at all in the article. It would seem reasonable that AGLOSO and whatever the NSA discovered would have some relation.

Seems timely, given that HR 9495 just passed the House last week.

Buckle up. The next few years are gonna be wild.

McCarthy's activities did nothing in particular to improve the security of the US government, and retrospectively tarnished earlier investigations. But there certainly were Russian spies active in the US government earlier on, and since.

Since about the 1960s, most of the damaging spies have been in it for the money, not for ideology, or so it seems to me.

"Ghost jobs." Would anyone even notice, if this is already occurring currently?

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