Inaccurate study quoting, Re: anti-crypto rhetoric (Ellison,

[T Bruce Tober]

In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980404183811.533B-100000@arpad.thegreen.privat
e>, Jeffrey Goldberg <J.Goldberg@Cranfield.ac.uk> writes
>On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, T Bruce Tober wrote:
>
>> All of which is typical of Joe McCarthy and his progenuy. He roamed the
>> states holding up a piece of paper, long piece of paper, claiming "I
>> have here a list of communists in the State Dept."
>
>I think this is a very good comparison.  I believe that another
>similarity (though I can't cite anything to back it up!), is that
>the numbers kept changing.  McCarthy kept on reporting different
>numbers. 

To Quote from Howard Zinn's wonderful _A People's History of the United
States_, "Speaking to w Women's Republican Club in Wheeling, West
Virginia, in early 1950, he held up some papers and shouted: 'I have
here in my hand a list of 205 -- a list of names that were made known to
the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who
nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State
Department.' The next day, speaking in Salt Lake City, McCarthy claimed
he had a list of fifty-seven (the number kept changing) such Communists
in the State Department. Shortly afterward, he appeared on the floor of
the Senate with photostatic copies of about a hundred dossiers from
State Department loyalty files. The dossiers were three years old, and
most of the people were no longer with the State Department, but
McCarthy read from them anyway, inventing, adding, and changing as he
read. In one case, he changed the dossier's description of 'liberal' to
'communistically inclines,' in another form 'active fellow traveler' to
active Communist' and so on."

>



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