Miriam Schneir's most recent book is Feminism in Our Time: The Essential Writings, World War II to the Present (Vintage).
There's good reason to be skeptical about the government's Venona releases and the claim that they are the final word on the cold-war espionage cases.
Nearly four years ago, soon after the initial public release by the National Security Agency (NSA) of its long-secret Venona archive--decoded Soviet intelligence messages transmitted by telegraph


