dec 7, 1953 - "Communist Dispute" - The Republicans & Democrats Debate Reds in the U.S. Government Weekly News Review 1953, Dec 7

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Weekly News Review 1953, Dec 7 - Communist Dispute - The Republicans & Democrats Debate Reds in the U.S. Government

This article makes a passing reference to a Soviet defector who jumped ship in 1937 in order to escape Stalin's seemingly random purges, his name was General Alexander Barmine (1899 - 1987). In his READER'S DIGEST piece from October, 1944 Barmine declared that Soviet spies were rapidly filling up positions within the U.S. Government. His more alarming proclamation was when he wrote that FDR's administration was protecting them - this implied that Red agents were already perched in the highest positions. When W.W. II ended (along with the Soviet alliance) both political parties in Washington agreed to weed out these moles - but they couldn't agree as to how deep the infiltration was. The Democrats believed that by 1953 most of the Communists had been found, the Republicans felt otherwise.

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