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Brilliant Codebreakers Exposed Soviet Spies—And Launched the McCarthy Era

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Schoolteachers, archeologists, linguists and mathematicians worked on the Venona project breaking unbreakable Soviet code from WWII. They were heroes. But some had deep regrets.

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