Henry Wallace - An FDR Vice-President and card carrying Communist & staunch Stalinist almost set the stage. We came very close to being a satellite country of the Soviets.
HENRY WALLACE: THE TRUE STORY
I watched with special attention the recent documentary on public television about Henry Wallace, a former Secretary of Agriculture, vice-president during FDRs third term and Secretary of Commerce in Roosevelts brief fourth term. In 1948, Wallace ran for president under the banner of the Progressive Party and was soundly defeated, garnering only one million votes nationwide in the popular vote. He became publisher of the New Republic for a stint and then faded away into relative obscurity. Yet there was a moment in history that could have made his name forever infamous. The documentary did not mention it.
But intelligence scholar Chris Andrew did, in 2000 on CBS 60 Minutes and CNN. Henry Wallace, it was divulged in formerly secret KGB files, was set to impose on the U.S. a Soviet-run administration. According to Andrew, referring to his book The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archiveco-authored with former KGB Colonel Vasali Mitrokhin: The fact that Roosevelt survived three months into an unprecedented fourth term in the White House deprived Soviet intelligence of what would have been its most spectacular success in penetrating a major Western government. The NKVD (the forerunner of the KGB) succeeded, nonetheless, in penetrating all the most sensitive sections of the Roosevelt administration. The Democrats dropped Wallace as FDRs running mate for the 1944 presidential race, depriving him of the presidency and the opportunity to establish a Soviet-appointed Cabinet.
This information was available to the producers of the Wallace documentary. Yet it was omitted, which is one example of the refusal of scholars and the media to recognize the revelations over the past 15 years that clear up many of the disputes and false assumptions that continue to divide the interpretation of recent history. The more the data stack up, the more revisionist scholars refuse to recognize that the Left in this country was largely manipulated by the Soviets. In other words, as several leading historians have admitted: Joe McCarthy was right.