Talk:Lauchlin Currie

message: I've revised the text relating to the allegations as more NPOV. Given the doubts over whether a reference in Venona means that an individual was an actual spy (as opposed to an inadvertant source), I think it is more accurate to put distance between the allegation and the 'confirmation'. 84.68.83.177 20:13, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Translation of KGB file 43173 vol. 2 (v) pp. 46-55, names Lauchlin Currie as a member of the Sound & Myrna groups.  nobs 02:18, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Gorsky Report

message: I just came across this article. It was a pretty interesting read, so I did a cleanup of the entire contents. By the way, it appears the article was a complete copyvio, from start to finish.  I don't know if this will be a problem since much of it is now rewritten and reformulated.
On another note, I felt like much of what I was reading was pulled out of thin air because of the lack  of proper sourcing. The bibliography also needs to be reformulated. In other words, these things are fine, but they're not wikified. Anyone care to help? ♠ SG →Talk 18:37, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup Finished - Need more help! 

message: re: jimjiiln… there is no evidentiary presentation, other than the typical unsupported allegations regarding Currie on pg 191.  If you feel there are other passages that provide supporting evidence—allegations are not evidence—in "In Denial" please put them forward.  The bulk of the text on pg 191 is a discussion of so-called agent Koltsov & Harry White.  "In Denial" as in "Spies" incorrectly presents that Koltsov was a KGB agent when by 2000 it was determined that Koltsov was Nikolai F. Chechulin, the Deputy President of the Soviet State Bank.  DEddy (talk) 18:41, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Denial reference? 

message: The article is self-contradictory. The header states explicitly that he was never naturalized. Later it says he was. Which is it? Rourin bushi (talk) 16:18, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naturalized or not? 

message: VENONA cables were not publicly acknowledged until 1995. DEddy (talk) 18:22, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  VENONA 

message: I am completely new at revising Wikipedia pages and I hope appending this matter to the Talk section is a good place to put this. The article contains the following information: "However, when Currie, as a U.S. citizen, tried to renew his passport in 1954, he was refused, ostensibly on the grounds that he was now residing abroad and married to a Colombian. However, he may have in fact been identified with the then-secret VENONA project, which had decrypted wartime Soviet cables where Currie was identified as a source of Soviet intelligence. He appears in the VENONA cables under the cover name 'PAGE', and in Soviet intelligence archives as 'VIM' and as a source for the Golos and Bentley spy networks.[8][9] According to historians John E. Haynes and Harvey Klehr evidence that Currie cooperated with Soviet espionage is convincing and substantial.[10]" 
Yet the lead to the article contends that Currie has his passport renewal denied because of McCarthyism. The lead shouldn't contradict the material in detail in the body of the article. When Currie's passport renewal was considered the US wasn't yet willing to reveal Venona (sources and methods). The year Venona was publicly acknowledged is not relevant to when the US government had the information. This is quite different than the McCarthyite method of making wild accusations. The majority of historians of the period state that Currie was a Soviet source, so I consider that opinion NPOV. There is no support in the article to suggest he was merely a victim of McCarthyism and contending that is not NPOV. Odysseus1150 (talk) 04:25, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  McCarthyism Charge Unsupported. Date VENONA Cables Decrypted Relevant, Not Date Revealed 

message: Duly noted that pg 191 "In Denial" says Currie was involved... but the passage offers no proof or evidence at all.  NONE.  Simply an opinion of guilt.  DEddy (talk) 22:18, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Denial 

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