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Spies Among Us
The hunt for Communists in the United States clearly reached the point of hysteria by the early 1950s, but what is often overlooked is that it had its origins in a very real phenomenon. The opening of the Soviet archives in the 1990s, and the declassification of certain intercepted Soviet messages from the late 1940s, indicates that Soviet agents had penetrated the U.S. government before and during World War II, in some cases at very high levels, including the Office of Secret Services, the Los Alamos nuclear lab, the State Department and the U.S. Congress. Now evidence gleaned from declassified secret Russian cables and newly opened KGB files shows that Soviet penetration indeed ran deep; even the Congressman who set up House Un-American Activities Committee was on the KGB payroll!
Aired: May 27, 1999 Genre: DocumentaryDuration: 42m Rating: 0 Country: United States of America Production: FilmRoos Productions
Episodes
01: Hell's Angels02: The Night Tulsa Burned03: Hitler and the Occult04: The Art of Tattooing05: Curse on the Gypsies06: The Loch Ness Monster07: Lincoln: The Untold Stories08: Ancient Drugs09: The Enduring Mystery of Stonehenge10: The End of the World11: Fountain of Youth12: Pueblo Cliffdwellers13: World Series Fix! The Black Sox Scandal14: Athens Triumph and Tragedy15: Secrets of the Aztec Empire16: Spies Among Us17: Legends of the Werewolves18: The Celts19: Beyond the Grave: The Afterlife20: The Sphinx of Egypt