As with the US Nuclear Energy program, the Left was taking marching orders from the Soviets in order to seriously damage the US's public funding towards rocketry.
People seriously underestimate just how thoroughly infiltrated American leftist organizations were by the USSR. The Soviets effectively controlled most of them, and worked on behalf of the Soviet agenda through them.
Take Palestine for example, the reason that western leftists even cared about the Israel/Palestine issue is because of the Soviets. Early on, the USSR hoped to court the new state of Israel into its sphere of influence. But as time passed it became more and more apparent that Israel aligned itself more with the West. So the Soviet regime did what it did and activated its useful idiots in leftist political groups to agitate for Palestinians and drive a wedge between the West and Israel. And leftists continue to care as a vestige of Soviet propaganda. Because leftists are: 1. brain dead NPCs 2. have no principles, only ideology.
People seriously underestimate just how thoroughly infiltrated American leftist organizations were by the USSR.
The Venona Records indicate that thirty percent of the US State Department were informing the USSR on American activities. Either as direct KGB agents, informants, or sympathizers. This is why FDR's State Department supported Mao in the Chinese Civil War. This is why almost all of our human intel into the Soviet Union was immediately murdered. Robert Hanssen was the FBI's counter-intelligence director to go after Russian spies, and he'd been a KGB agent for 15 years (at least). Hollywood has been directly funded by the Soviet Union for nearly 50 years (Raz0rfist goes into detail about this). The Soviet's nuclear technology came directly from Socialist and Communist sympathetic scientists who thought Stalin was a good guy. The New York Times had journalists that were Soviet agents, and explicitly covered up the Holodomor.
Most of this is because of American Progressives and Socialists being permanently willing to side with the most murderous and extreme Communists in history as long as the right / conservatives make no success. But the USSR were no slouches at manipulating human intelligence. The KGB personally ran the largest anti-Soviet Russian political groups in the USSR for nearly 70 years.
The John Birch Society was right, and "None Dare Call It Treason" goes into excessive detail about how badly betrayed the US has been by it's own ruling elite who have been dedicated to Leftism for over a century.
Early on, the USSR hoped to court the new state of Israel into its sphere of influence
Precisely, Israel started as a Soviet ally. Zionism is a Progressive Nationalist project. Soviet jews actually had huge support for Israel, and Israel was in opposition to the US during the Suez Crisis.
Once Israel started to switch towards the US, the Soviets decided to say 'fuck it', and started imprisoning and killing jews and zionists in the USSR. Then it started pushing for Palestine, Arab Socialism, and the Pan-Arabist movements.
Despite Stalin and others in the USSR being anti-jew, they used the Holocaust to frame themselves as a home for jews. As soon as Israel moved west, they went back to targeting jews again, because it's only about power.
Because leftists are: 1. brain dead NPCs 2. have no principles, only ideology.
And don't forget # 3: Given a choice between helping a Communist murder the child of a rightist, and letting a rightist win an argument, the Left (even the center-left; by god even the center-right) will side with the Communist.
People seriously underestimate just how thoroughly infiltrated American leftist organizations were by the USSR. The Soviets effectively controlled most of them, and worked on behalf of the Soviet agenda through them.
Take Palestine for example, the reason that western leftists even cared about the Israel/Palestine issue is because of the Soviets. Early on, the USSR hoped to court the new state of Israel into its sphere of influence. But as time passed it became more and more apparent that Israel aligned itself more with the West. So the Soviet regime did what it did and activated its useful idiots in leftist political groups to agitate for Palestinians and drive a wedge between the West and Israel. And leftists continue to care as a vestige of Soviet propaganda. Because leftists are: 1. brain dead NPCs 2. have no principles, only ideology.
The Venona Records indicate that thirty percent of the US State Department were informing the USSR on American activities. Either as direct KGB agents, informants, or sympathizers. This is why FDR's State Department supported Mao in the Chinese Civil War. This is why almost all of our human intel into the Soviet Union was immediately murdered. Robert Hanssen was the FBI's counter-intelligence director to go after Russian spies, and he'd been a KGB agent for 15 years (at least). Hollywood has been directly funded by the Soviet Union for nearly 50 years (Raz0rfist goes into detail about this). The Soviet's nuclear technology came directly from Socialist and Communist sympathetic scientists who thought Stalin was a good guy. The New York Times had journalists that were Soviet agents, and explicitly covered up the Holodomor.
Most of this is because of American Progressives and Socialists being permanently willing to side with the most murderous and extreme Communists in history as long as the right / conservatives make no success. But the USSR were no slouches at manipulating human intelligence. The KGB personally ran the largest anti-Soviet Russian political groups in the USSR for nearly 70 years.
The John Birch Society was right, and "None Dare Call It Treason" goes into excessive detail about how badly betrayed the US has been by it's own ruling elite who have been dedicated to Leftism for over a century.
Precisely, Israel started as a Soviet ally. Zionism is a Progressive Nationalist project. Soviet jews actually had huge support for Israel, and Israel was in opposition to the US during the Suez Crisis.
Once Israel started to switch towards the US, the Soviets decided to say 'fuck it', and started imprisoning and killing jews and zionists in the USSR. Then it started pushing for Palestine, Arab Socialism, and the Pan-Arabist movements.
Despite Stalin and others in the USSR being anti-jew, they used the Holocaust to frame themselves as a home for jews. As soon as Israel moved west, they went back to targeting jews again, because it's only about power.
And don't forget # 3: Given a choice between helping a Communist murder the child of a rightist, and letting a rightist win an argument, the Left (even the center-left; by god even the center-right) will side with the Communist.