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Re: _The Manchurian Candidate_ 1962



Vincent,

There are too many types on this newsgroup who would light up and run the server into the ground if you got started on a discussion of Senator McCarthy. However, it was McCarthy who leveled the charges about X number of Communists working in the State Department, but lost his credibility when he couldn't provide the same number every time he made the statement -- 57 one time, 205 the next.

Most people, however, ignore the fact that when they finally published the VENONA reports from NSA the State Department WAS riddled with a number of Soviet agents, such as Alger Hiss.

But in the context of the movie this guy was a bumbler whose Communist agent wife was going to be the real power behind the throne, until she finds out her perfect assassin is her own son.

Cookie Sewell
AMPS