WI Proof shows up that the US knew about Pearl Harbour

Even accurate history rewrites?

Venona, for example.

Such things are rare--but they do happen.

Revising history for new sources is one thing. That as you note does happen in academia, and academia can actually vastly outstrip popular history in that regard. What I'm talking about is akin to how Jubal Early treated the ACW, von Manstein the ASW, and Douglas MacArthur's fanboys Korea.
 
And I emphasize differently from waaaay too many experiences of people saying...not exactly that the nice KGB/Stalin/USSR would never do such things; but definitely that anyone who claimed the KGB/Stalin/the USSR would do such things was a lying McCarthyite witch hunter and probably a racist.

Well then those people have no idea what they're talking about and fail to understand just why the USSR was as frightening as it was. It's a horrifying thought to consider that there was a timespan in the Cold War where the Soviet dictator knew more about the US Bomb arsenal and means of delivery than the POTUS did.
 
Well then those people have no idea what they're talking about and fail to understand just why the USSR was as frightening as it was. It's a horrifying thought to consider that there was a timespan in the Cold War where the Soviet dictator knew more about the US Bomb arsenal and means of delivery than the POTUS did.

Again, it sounds like matters of emphasis aside, we are in basic agreement.

Funny how sometimes people can have bitter arguments over matters they actually agree on.
 
I still cannot get enough of the reality that yep there sure were Comunist infiltrators, and the only time HUAC actually found one was completly by accident.

And they never found the guy parked o nthe COmmittee.
 
I think you would have easier time making the case that McCarthy was a Soviet agent than the US knew about PH. I mean could he really have been that useless by accident? Or did he fail to catch the Soviet spies because he was the one running the US network? :eek:
 
I think you would have easier time making the case that McCarthy was a Soviet agent than the US knew about PH. I mean could he really have been that useless by accident? Or did he fail to catch the Soviet spies because he was the one running the US network? :eek:

Now this actually makes a twisted kind of sense.

Agent "Wheeling"'s job is twofold, make sure the Americans never find the true Agents, nd be so bombastic and absurd a figure that the very notion of looking for SOviet spies is discredited.
 
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