The Venona Project

Understanding history can help us understand the lengths that individuals will go to in order to further their personal agendas, gain acceptance and wealth, or otherwise just fit in. A classic example that illustrates this is the information gathered during the Venona Project. Learn what was done in the past (subversion of America's effort to develop the atom bomb) and see how high (or is that low) the bar has been set for present day apparatchiks in the Defense Department, State Department, Central Intelligence Agency, and elsewhere.

A brief history lesson regarding the Venona Project is located at:

http://www.nsa.gov/venona/index.cfm

And yes Julius and Ethel, among others, were guilty as hell. American Apparatchiks of the Communist variety may not have been under every bed but they were legion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_code_names_in_the_Venona_papers

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? - Mathew 16:26