Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The old battles

In the 1950s and 1960s, it was an article of faith among the left that Alger Hiss had been framed and had never been a Soviet spy. That position became untenable a while back. But another icon of the left was I.F. Stone, who supposedly was also above reproach. Turns out the Stone was also a Soviet spy, at least in the 1930s.

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