SOME THINGS WERE TRUE EVEN THOUGH MCCARTHY SAID THEM

Just as TLF admitted with Trump.

"...The political figure from American history whom Donald Trump most resembles, it seems to me, is Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who for a little more than four years--from February 1950 until the middle of 1954--terrorized Washington and much of the country with accusations of Communist conspiracies in the State Department, in other parts of the Truman Administration, and inside the Democratic Party.  The chief counsel of McCarthy's Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, Roy Cohn, later became associated with Trump in the 1970s and 1980s, and Trump credits him with a good deal of influence upon him.

"...Having "discovered" more than 200 non-existent Communists in the State Department, McCarthy treated all the opposition to him as evidence of how vast the Communist conspiracy was...." DK

Why not try to attack VENONA findings, rather than imply falsely that McCarthy was onto nothing but illusory Communist conspiracies. 

Rather like attacking the existence of the holocaust, or attacking the reality of global warming.

For that matter, why then believe David Reich re ancient DNA, if you don't believe the VENONA research findings even with their uncertainties? 

Why?

The number of Americans working as Soviet agents in federal positions, some at the top of government, named in VENONA, is 300. The total number of mere CPUSA members in these organizations was probably much larger, but members routinely hid their membership.

For those who have read VENONA books, great.

Take a look at In Denial, by Haynes and Klehr. Interesting discussion of a libel case in Britain against a holocaust denyer historian.

The sad thing, about the legacy of the New Left in academia, to this day, is that global communism was always a pipe dream, without regard to the case of the Soviet regime, or the
Chinese regime, pro or contra.