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Why Eisenhower Let McCarthy Be Destroyed - The Secret Files He Refused to Share

In January 1953, Dwight Eisenhower became president and immediately faced a problem - Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose three-year crusade against communist infiltration had made him the most powerful Republican in Washington. Drawing on declassified NSA Venona files released in 1995, James Hagerty's White House diary entries, and Senate records from the Army-McCarthy hearings, this documentary examines a question that haunted the entire McCarthy era - why did Eisenhower stay completely silent while McCarthy's accusations destroyed careers, even when the president possessed classified intelligence that would have changed everything? What secret did Eisenhower learn in his first week as president that proved McCarthy's core warning about Soviet infiltration was correct? Why did he choose to keep that evidence locked away while the Army-McCarthy hearings destroyed the senator on national television in June 1954? How did systematic proof of Soviet espionage remain classified for 38 years after it could have focused investigations on actual spies instead of destroying innocent people? The Venona Project files reveal presidential calculation about protecting intelligence sources versus protecting truth - and show the cost of that choice.