As the Cold War recedes further into the past, and a Presidential candidate with long standing ties to Stalinists and Marxist terrorists can come close to the presidency, it does my heart good to see Sobel confess. Those of us who read Witness and, though we were not there, know of the Rosenberg's, the Leftist infiltrators at Los Alamos and the rest took sides. The Left took the sides of those who funneled information to Joseph Stalin. They used every media organ at their disposal to accuse Nixon, Hoover and the rest of being wrong about Sobel and his ilk. Sobel and other communists (like the Hollywood 10) followed Moscow's line to deny, deny, deny and complain that every inquiry into their conspiratorial actions in the service of a foreign power was a violation of civil liberties.
I was surprised Sobel was alive. The amazing thing is that it took 15 years past the collapse of the Soviet dream for him to let go enough to confess. All those years of prison, and all the years of denial for what?
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Your last question is a fascinating one whose answer, I confidently predict, will be at least 50% unsatisfactory to you.
However, Sobel's confession neither vindicates the whole of the Nixon/Hoover ouevre nor condemns the actions of a bunch of other people.
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