Editing Venona project (section)

==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 Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] to have been justified in his zeal in exposing those whom he believed to be Soviet spies or communist sympathizers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.socialstudies.org/historians_speak_out_against_proposed_texas_textbook_changes |title=Historians speak out against proposed Texas textbook changes &#124; National Council for the Social Studies |publisher=Socialstudies.org |date=2010-03-18 |access-date=2014-02-15}}</ref> Critics such as Emory University history professor Harvey Klehr assert most people and organizations identified by McCarthy, such as those brought forward in the [[Army-McCarthy hearings]] or rival politicians in the Democratic party, were not mentioned in the Venona content and that his accusations remain largely unsupported by evidence.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tfn.org/rehabilitating-joseph-mccarthy/|title=Rehabilitating Joseph McCarthy? |publisher=TFN Insider |date=2009-10-29 |access-date=2016-07-26}}</ref>