I Will Stage A Coup D’état - Chapter 191



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EP.191 McCarthy

Korea did not move only in China.

The Agency for National Security Planning waited for the aftermath of the disappearance of Chinese scientists to die down before striking again in the United States.

‘Here, another letter from my precious friends.’

McCarthy opened a thick document that had come flying in from somewhere.

It was another accusation sent by an anonymous person.

McCarthy decided to savor this meal as well.

The names of Werner von Braun, John von Neumann, and Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück were on McCarthy’s list.

“Look at this! There were so many reds hiding in our scientific community! Even Oppenheimer, who participated in the Manhattan Project, was revealed to be a red-hot red!”

Oppenheimer was not a communist, but he was falsely accused of being one and was completely ruined.

There was no problem with beating him like a sandbag.

The American scientific community shuddered as McCarthy waved his list.

“Oh, can someone shut that crazy dog’s mouth?”

Unable to bear it any longer, NACA (the U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the predecessor of NASA) stepped in to refute McCarthy’s logic.

“Dr. von Braun is a scientist who faithfully serves the interests of the United States. He is definitely not a communist.”

“I see? Then who gave the Soviet Union the rocket technology it acquired?”

It was an attack without any basis.

You explain it.

In McCarthy’s version, McCarthy was God, the prosecutor, and the judge.

“No, what kind of nonsense is that?”

“Give me proof that it isn’t true!”

At least von Braun was lucky.

It was thanks to NACA that they saw him as a talent they needed and protected him thoroughly.

Von Neumann also received protection from the U.S. government, which valued him highly.

However, Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück was not so lucky.

Max Delbrück was a scholar whose name was not as great as theirs.

Max Delbrück was forced to pack up his bags at the university due to persistent attacks from the HCUA and McCarthy.

‘My home country, Germany, must have just begun to rebuild, but is there an environment conducive to research?’

Delbrück lamented this situation.

He was worried about how he would make a living in the future.

He already had four children with his wife.

While he was contemplating whether he should do physical labor, a mysterious letter arrived.

“From a reader who respects you. Doctor. America has abandoned you. Rather than a country that does not recognize the talent of a scientist, why don’t you work in a place that truly values ​​you? If you are interested, I would like to invite you to Pyongyang.”

A generous amount of airfare was enclosed at the bottom of the letter.

Delbrück discussed the matter with his wife.

“Of course I should go.”

“But Korea is an unfamiliar East.”

“No. I heard there are a lot of Germans there too.”

Is there a German community?

Delbrück was slightly inclined to go to Korea after hearing that.

“You can’t do anything here anyway. Let’s get out of here before you end up like Dr. Oppenheimer.”

At the mention of Oppenheimer, Delbrück made up his mind.

In this way, German scientists who had been wounded by McCarthy’s knife were put on a plane to Korea.

The United States knew that scientists were leaving, but it didn’t seem to matter.

It was hard to say anything until he was stabbed by McCarthy and went to find a living.

Even McCarthy, the devil of a tongue who made life miserable for others, was faced with a crisis.

“I am absolutely innocent. This is a false accusation!”

When an Air Force officer was wrongfully discharged, he reported the incident to journalists Edward Munro and Fred Friendly.

Monroe and Friendly decided to verify the Air Force officer’s claims and then report them.

“Are you guys crazy? The opponent is McCarthy!”

McCarthy was a heavyweight who even the Stevenson administration found difficult to deal with.

How dare you mess with such a formidable opponent.

The broadcaster immediately applied pressure.

The military did not stay still.

“You are a communist who was fired through due process!”

But the two journalists courageously turned on the broadcast.

“The gnome was a crazy dog.”

The Stevenson administration, watching the broadcast, decided to take up the cudgel.

I was already annoyed by the way Republican Senator McCarthy was running wild.

There was no need to look after him even a little.

Immediately the FBI began digging around McCarthy.

“These red bastards, McCarthy, are the shield that protects our country!”

The Republican Party actively defended McCarthy based on camp logic.

McCarthy also resisted desperately.

“The Democratic administration is full of reds. It’s scary to think how many reds have been selling out U.S. secrets since the Roosevelt era!”

McCarthy, although cornered by the Stevenson administration’s offensive, still had a strong base of support to oppose the regime.

“McCarthy, that guy is one to watch out for.”

Murrow and Friendly, who had attacked McCarthy, launched a second offensive by creating a program called “Check Now.”

“There was not a grain of truth in McCarthy’s claims.”

Murrow and Friendly attacked McCarthy harshly, pointing out the truth and falsehood of his claims.

“I, I will refute it.”

McCarthy sent a hasty rebuttal, but the rebuttal, which did not even serve as an explanation, became a laughing stock.

“McCarthy, that guy is like a ghost when he bites others, but when it comes to himself, he’s like a bug.”

Public opinion increasingly turned against McCarthy.

Still, McCarthy did not collapse all at once.

There were two reasons why McCarthy persisted, unlike the original author.

One is that it drew less public resentment because it attacked Stevenson rather than war hero Eisenhower.

Here, Eisenhower was a Republican, McCarthy’s party, but Stevenson was a Democrat, so he could expect protection from camp logic.

The other was that it did not attack the US Army.

McCarthy in the original version attacked the US Army and incurred Eisenhower’s wrath, but he did nothing like that here.

It was not that McCarthy suddenly became good, but rather that he calculated that it was advantageous to leave the US Army, which was on the opposite side of Stevenson, alone, according to camp logic.

As a result, McCarthy’s downfall was not as sudden and dramatic as in the original.

McCarthy was being harassed by the press, but he was hidden and protected by partisan logic.

The Agency for National Security Planning was also watching this.

“If this continues, McCarthy will be finished?”

“Before that, I have to give you a reversal pattern.”

The Agency for National Security Planning has just secured a card that can be used to strike a blow at the Stevenson administration.

This was also something prepared at His Majesty’s direction.

Han Yoon-soo, head of the National Intelligence Service’s external operations division, had the prepared letter sent to McCarthy.

A few days later, McCarthy took the podium to boos.

“I understand that you may jeer and sneer at me. But let me make this clear: At least I am not a hypocrite who pretends to be on the side of justice.”

“What kind of nonsense are you talking about?”

McCarthy waved the papers he had received from the National Intelligence Service.

“This is the reality of this country. Look at how the red commies have been toying with the free citizens.”

The congressmen who picked up the papers McCarthy had thrown were embarrassed.

“No, this kind of thing happens in Alabama?”

What McCarthy had blown up was a secret experiment that had been going on since 1932.

In Tuskegee, Alabama, they lied about curing poor black people, but instead infected them with syphilis.

And by observing the course of events, we examined the harmfulness of syphilis.

It was an extremely vicious biological experiment.

Black people wanted treatment, but the authorities refused to allow black subjects to come to the hospital for treatment.

When the US military tried to treat black soldiers from Tuskegee, they also stopped him.

Even after penicillin was discovered and became available to treat syphilis, authorities refused to treat black people.

People were momentarily speechless when they saw this brutal content.

“Am I wrong? How moral is the US government that calls me a witch-hunter? Am I better than those commies?”

The tide turned with this one attack.

The initiative for the offensive now passed to McCarthy.

“I hope the Stevenson administration will respond. It is true that black people are somewhat inferior, but they do not deserve to be trampled like this.”

The Stevenson administration remained silent.

Since it happened during the previous administration, it is impossible to deny it; the Roosevelt administration was also a Democratic administration.

And the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment is still ongoing.

“Who the hell started this!”

“We’ll have to look into it, but I think the Soviet Union is behind it.”

“And those commies? That’s unbelievable. So the data that McCarthy is shaking around came from the hands of commies?”

“Maybe so, right?”

There was little evidence to suggest that Korea was the culprit.

All the suspicious people who visited Tuskegee were white.

The possibility of being ethnically Korean was extremely low.

However, the FBI overlooked one thing.

The investigation was conducted to determine whether ‘subcontracting’ was allowed.

The Stevenson administration suffered a fatal blow because of the Tuskegee scandal.

McCarthy, who dealt a fatal blow to the Democratic administration with a single attack, emerged as an instant hero to the Republican Party.

“That guy may have been talking nonsense, but he did a good job of giving those Democrats a good rebuke.”

McCarthy survived in politics without losing his presence.

And he continued to swing the knife attached to his tongue.

“That guy is a communist! I mean, a communist!”

McCarthy continued to spread slander within the United States.

No one knew when his shenanigans would end.

What was certain was that it would not end before the end of the Stevenson administration.