Item COLD WAR 27/24 - Transcript of interview with writer Ralph De Toledano, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Ralph De Toledano, Editor, Newsweek magazine, 1948-1950, and co author with Victor Lasky of Seeds of treason, The true story of the Hiss-Chambers tragedy, Funk & Wagnalls Co, New York[1950], relating to the investigations into communist subversion in the US, including the investigation of Alger Hiss, a US State Department official charged with perjury for denying passing secret documents to Whitaker Chambers, a courier for the Communist Party, 1949-1950 and the role of Richard B Nixon in the investigation; the effect of the trial on Nixon's career; the activities of the House Un-American Activities Committee; the campaign against alleged communists and communist sympathisers in US society instigated by Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy, 1950-1954, (McCarthyism); the role of McCarthy's counsel, Roy Cohen; Nixon's relationship with McCarthy; Nixon's relationship with Dwight L Eisenhower and the 1952 US Presidential election where Nixon was elected Vice President; the influence and methods of McCarthy; the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and its head J Edgar Hoover in the investigation of communist espionage in the US and the evidence of Igor Gusenko, Soviet defector to Canada; and Toledano's assessment of the severity of communist threat to the US during the Cold War. 34pp