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Comment author: teageegeepea 13 June 2012 05:26:32PM *  2 points [-]

McCarthy was being fed info from J. Edgar Hoover, who did have access to the Venona transcripts. I don't know if he was given the identities of known spies, but he was sent after Hoover's bureaucratic rivals.