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The "defenestration" of Jack Service from the U.S. Foreign Service (along with Ray Ludden, John Emerson and John Davies) for having "lost china" damaged the State Department and the Foreign Policy of the U.S. Jack Kennedy called the State Dep't "a bowl of jelly" from which he couldn't get clear unambiguous advice. FSO's(I was a foreign service officer)learned from the destruction of Service and others to not report what they were seeing. We're still recovering. (See my documentary film, "Mission to Yenan"which aired on NBC on the eve of Nixon's departure for Beijing for more detail)

While there were some spies in the U.S. government (and ALWAYS WILL BE), the damage done to U.S. and the Constitution by McCarthy and his witch hunt were exceedingly worse than anything the Soviets ever attempted. As usual, we are our own worst enemy.

Len, is it not true that alot of the suspition during the McCarthy era was correct, there were spies everywhere??

our State Dept. servicemen in ChinaIndoChina area during WWII also met Ho Chi Minh (different name at the time) and had a similar experience - they sent transmittals back home suggesting that we work with this new ally (who had helped us against the Japanese - hoping that The White House would help the IndoChinese people prevent the French from oppressing them again. We made promises and broke them at the Geneva Accords, abstaining from voting against the French. France moved back in with extreme oppression and the FrenchIndoChinese War began. We could have helped but for diplomatic reasons bailed out. We paid for it with the Viet Nam War.