McCarthy was being fed info from J. Edgar Hoover, who did have access to the Venona transcripts. I don’t know if he was given the identities of known spies, but he was sent after Hoover’s bureaucratic rivals.
McCarthy was being fed info from J. Edgar Hoover, who did have access to the Venona transcripts. I don’t know if he was given the identities of known spies, but he was sent after Hoover’s bureaucratic rivals.