Sites like “historydotcom” are still slandering and calling them liars and “right wing”, but here’s a snippet from a hack “writer” of theirs:
The John Birch Society, initially founded with only 11 members, had by the early 1960s grown to a membership of nearly 100,000 Americans and received annual private contributions of several million dollars. The society revived the spirit of McCarthyism, claiming in unsubstantiated accusations that a vast communist conspiracy existed within the U.S. government.
Having it, literally, SHOVED in our faces EVERY single day is still “unsubstantiated”? Lenin & CHINA would be BEYOND proud!
So what do we know 67 years later? For one thing, that McCarthy actually underestimated the number of American Soviet spies working for the USSR in the FDR administration. It took a while, but in 1994 NSA and CIA released 190,000 formerly classified cablegrams they, and their predecessor agencies, intercepted from 1943 to 1980. The number of American Soviet agents identified from Venona has reached 500, more than double the 205 McCarthy predicted — as researchers have decrypted only ten percent of the documents thus far.
Most of the spies named so far are well known: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Alger Hiss, whom the left maintained were victims of American imperialism, are now proved guilty. Assistant U.S. Treasurer Harry Dexter White, now deceased, who became head of the World Bank; and Lauchlan Currie, highly placed in the President’s office; and hundreds more placed in every Cabinet level organization in the U.S. government.
Due to the left-leaning U.S. media, Venona has been ignored. Fortunately, journalist Stanton Evans wrote "Blacklisted By History," (linked) relying on newly declassified FBI and CIA documents that reveal a sinister plot, but not by McCarthy. The person harmed by the so-called witch hunt was McCarthy himself. https://www.newsmax.com/BernieReeves/mccarthy-venona-project-blackmailed-by-history/2017/03/23/id/780440/