Secrecy
by Daniel Patrick Moynihan · first published 1998
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…aid and comfort to Holocaust deniers but to point out that there was a lot of Soviet espionage activity, which the article implies was not the case. I strongly encourage you to read Patrick Moynihan's "Secrecy" book for a nuanced view of the policy challenges of managing secrets, diplomacy, and counter-intelligence in a way that preserves democracy.
on “Joseph McCarthy and the Force of Political Falsehoods” ↗…period." After the fall of the Berlin Wall a number of documents were recovered from the East Germany that substantiated the FBI work. Senator (D) Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote about this in detail in "Secrecy" https://www.amazon.com/Secrecy-Experience-Daniel-Patrick-Moy... (See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moynihan_Commission_on_Governm... for context)
on “Joseph McCarthy and the Force of Political Falsehoods” ↗Daniel Patrick Moynihan[0] wrote a book called Secrecy. If I remember it correctly, I took away two main points: * A highly valuable asset within government is information and thus workers are incentivized to hoard it and protect its value, including by…
on “As Leaks Multiply, Fears of a ‘Deep State’ in America” ↗…counter-intelligence efforts against Soviets under the Venona project continued until 1980. There were and are doubtless other counterinteligence efforts that ran in parallel and continue to this day. Moynihan's "Secrecy" book explores in detail how intelligence information gets politicized and suggests some policies to minimize that. Using secrets for political ends no doubt occurred and continues to occur and is not…
on “Joseph McCarthy and the Force of Political Falsehoods” ↗