::"the FBI knew '''as early as 1942''' that [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]], the director of the atomic bomb project, had been identified by Communist leaders as a party member; that high-level U.S. officials were warned that [[Alger Hiss]] was a Soviet spy almost '''a decade before the Hiss case became a public scandal'''; that a cabal of White House, Justice Department, and State Department officials lied about and covered up the [[Amerasia]] spy case; and that the State Department had been heavily penetrated by Communists and Soviet agents before McCarthy came on the scene." | ::"the FBI knew '''as early as 1942''' that [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]], the director of the atomic bomb project, had been identified by Communist leaders as a party member; that high-level U.S. officials were warned that [[Alger Hiss]] was a Soviet spy almost '''a decade before the Hiss case became a public scandal'''; that a cabal of White House, Justice Department, and State Department officials lied about and covered up the [[Amerasia]] spy case; and that the State Department had been heavily penetrated by Communists and Soviet agents before McCarthy came on the scene." |