State was filled with Communists. Haynes and Klehr talk mostly only about the actual agents within state, but in several cases they were very senior officials who were in a position to hire favored folks. Index, "State department, Soviet agents in", see especially p 200 to 206.
Re McCarthy's persecution of the China Hands as Communists in the State Department, it is not as if this is some recherche faux notion.
The Department of State was legendary from the early 20th Century as a left leaning institution within a left leaning federal government.
To say that State, in the 30s no less than in the 50s, was filled with Communists, was not something outlandish at all, but rather just something common knowledge, and for them a badge of honor, in the Beltway and among also left leaning journalists and academics.
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