http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/17/AR2010031700560.html.
התפיסה המקובלת בנושא מוצגת, למשל, אצל: Schrecker, E. (1998). Many are the crimes: McCarthyism in America (Vol. 166). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
ר' עוד אצל: Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Larry Combest, Secrecy: Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy Appendix A, 1997. וכן: John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, In Denial: Historians, Communism & Espionage, 2005, 81-85.