'Communists' in the US State Department 'lost' China to the Free World -Senator Joe McCarthy alleged 30 years ago. McCarthy's charges led to a purge of the China experts who had foreseen the success of the Communist revolution.
Three victims of McCarthy's attack, Owen Lattimore, Theodore White and Edmund Oubb , recall their experiences of the purge, while Dean Rusk and William Buckley assess its effect on American-Chinese relations.
Written and presented by Peter Paterson
Producer Mvin powELL