Top secret information, including sensitive documents, is largely transmitted by e-mail today, with various degrees of encryption, or if your name is Hillary Clinton, with no encryption at all. But at one time, documents procured by spies were passed on by hand. One of the most infamous such cases was that of the so-called Pumpkin […]
Jeremy Kuzmarov argues the Cold War case has enduring relevance to American political culture and provides clues to the motives and machinations underlying the new Russophobia. By Jeremy Kuzmarov In January 1950, Alger Hiss, a former State Department employee and…Read more →
The fall of the Soviet bloc was great, I wouldn’t have missed it for the world: elites reveling in treason, secret police exposed in disgrace, mass public catharsis. It has since become clear that was one down, one to go. The other one has tottered on for a quarter century but it won’t be long now. Impunity for CIA and police is under threat from domestic exposure and international pressure.
