Leftist US Prof Happily Plays Useful Idiot for Tehran
Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP Back during the Cold War, the Soviets would occasionally trot out American defectors who would denounce capitalism and imperialism and sing the praises of Marx and Lenin. In 1960, for example, NSA cryptologists William Martin and Bernon Mitchell held a press conference to explain their defection and proclaim: “Perhaps United States hostility towards Communism arises out of a feeling of insecurity engendered by Communist achievements in science, culture and industry.” Martin and Mitchell, however, were speaking from Moscow. Today’s defectors, i...