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''The Nation'' has had writers identified as Soviet spies in the [[Venona project]].
''The Nation'' has had writers identified as Soviet spies in the [[Venona project]].
Victor Navasky, editor and publisher of ''The Nation'', has criticised the Venona analysis, claiming the material is being used to "distort our understanding of the cold war". He has also referred to the files as potential "time bombs of misinformation."<ref>Navasky, Victor (July 16, 2001). [http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20010716&s=navasky ''Cold War Ghosts'']]. The Nation. </ref>
Victor Navasky, editor and publisher of ''The Nation'', has criticised the Venona analysis, claiming the material is being used to "distort our understanding of the cold war". He has also referred to the files as potential "time bombs of misinformation."<ref>Navasky, Victor (July 16, 2001). [http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20010716&s=navasky ''Cold War Ghosts'']]. The Nation. </ref>
The Nation infamously supported [[Pol Pot]], [[Vladimir Lenin]], [[Ho Chi Minh]], and [[Josef Stalin]]:
"…The evidence is that in Cambodia the much-heralded blood bath that was supposed to follow the fall of Phnom Penh has not taken place. As for Vietnam, reports from Saigon indicate exemplary behavior, considering the situation. ‘There has been no evidence of a blood bath…as [was] so freely predicted abroad,’ writes George Esper of the A.P." – The Nation, editorial, June 14, 1975<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/deniers/cambodia/nation.pdf</ref>
"If, indeed, postwar Cambodia is, as he believes, similar to Nazi Germany, then his comment is perhaps just, though we may add that he has produced no evidence to support this judgement. But if postwar Cambodia is more similar to France after liberation, where many thousands of people were massacred within a few months under far less rigorous conditions than those left by the American war, then perhaps a rather different judgement is in order. That the latter conclusion may be more nearly correct is suggested by the analyses mentioned earlier." - The Nation, "Distortions at Fourth Hand," 1977<ref>http://www.chomsky.info/articles/19770625.htm</ref>
"Stalin did not plan or seek to accomplish genocide. Professor Charles Tilly of The New School in New York counts total deaths in the Revolution, including the Teror, famine and war, at no more than 100,000."-The Nation, March 6, 1989<ref>https://groups.google.com/group/alt.activism/msg/429e9d74df7d2624?&hl=en</ref>
"To me Lenin is the hero of a legend, a man who had torn the burning heart out of his breast in order to light up for mankind the path which shall lead it out of the shameful chaos of the present, out of the rotting bog of stupid current politics....His hero-character has almost no outward adornment. His heroism is of a type not rare in Russia--the modest, ascetic martyrdom of an honorable, intellectual revolutionary who honestly believes in the possibility of justice on earth; the heroism of a man who has renounced all the pleasures of life to do hard work for the happiness of mankind." - The Nation's Obiturary for Lenin<ref>http://www.thenation.com/article/lenin-man?page=0,0</ref>
==Communist infiltration==
==Communist infiltration==