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The librarian spies : Philip and Mary Jane Keeney and Cold War espionage /
In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that the State Department was a haven for communists and traitors. Among famous targets, like Alger Hiss, the senator also named librarian Mary Jane Keeney and her husband Philip, who had been called before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee to accoun...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger Security International,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that the State Department was a haven for communists and traitors. Among famous targets, like Alger Hiss, the senator also named librarian Mary Jane Keeney and her husband Philip, who had been called before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee to account for friendships with suspected communists, memberships in communist fronts, and authorship of articles that had been published in leftist periodicals. Conservative journalists and politicians had seized the occasion to denounce the pair as communist sympathizers and spies for the Soviet Union. If. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 183 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-168) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781567207071 1567207073 1282339036 9781282339033 9786612339035 6612339039 |