Texas Textbook Controversy
Controversy arose in 2009 over the Texas State Board of Education's revision of their high school history class curricula to suggest Venona shows Sen. Joseph McCarthy to have been justified in his zeal in exposing those who he believed to be Soviet spies or communist sympathizers. Critics pointed out most of the people and organizations identified by McCarthy were not mentioned in the VENONA content and the sources of his accusations are largely still unknown.
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