M. Stanton Evans Quotes

Are you now or have you ever been a member of a Godless conspiracy controlled by a foreign power?

I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.

Annie Lee Moss was a black woman who worked for the Army as a code clerk in the Pentagon. She was identified by an undercover agent of the FBI as a member of the Communist Party. Moss denied it, the Democrats sprang to her defense, and she has been treated ever since as an innocent victim of McCarthy.

Communists will infiltrate the highest offices of government in the US until the president is a Communist, unknown to the rest of us.

The FBI is full of Fordham graduates keeping tabs on Harvard Men in the State Department.

The station will prepare a list of the 25 most dangerous Communists and pro-Communists and attempt to gather data re these targets which could be used for character assassination..... More pictures of comparisons of living conditions of the top Commies and the peons will be of special value.

Hoover had us [FBI agents and officials] prepare material for McCarthy regularly. We kept furnishing it to him while Hoover publicly denied that we were helping him.

Now, you know that's nonsense. How many Communists do you know at the Courthouse? Or among your teachers? Or preachers? .... Internal Communism is a very minor problem with us, and one I think the FBI can handle quite well.

I don't pay a lot of attention to communist infiltrators.

The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

For John le Carre, it was always who's betraying who: the hall-of-mirrors kind of thing. When you go back to the '30s, it's a case of good vs. evil, and no kidding. When I have a hero who believes France and Britain are on the right side, a reader is not going to question that.

Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.

I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

The Rosenberg case had been orchestrated to an anti-Communist frenzy that matched the exuberant hysteria of the Nazi horror.

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.

The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.

Every communist is Moscow’s spy!

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform. But when the Communists abandoned reforms and championed a Soviet Union openly contemptuous of America while predicting its quick collapse, the same party lost all its hard-won influence. It became merely a bad word in the American language.

If communism in Hollywood is now mythical, it is only because this Committee conducted three investigations to bring it about. The industry itself did certainly not accomplish this.

Nobody from the CIA is going to account for their loyalty to [Senator Joseph] McCarthy.

[I never implied] that President Truman was disloyal or pro-Communist. He was blind to the Communist menace and used very bad judgement.

Controlled penetration of the Communist Party. Controlled penetrations in the armed forces Controlled penetrations in the major anti-Communist organizations Controlled penetrations of the major labor unions

Even if there were only one communist in the State Department, that would still be one communist too many.