Morgan, Ted. "Joe McCarthy's Secret Life"
Divergence: 1956 CE
What if: Senator Jeseph McCarthy was working for the Soveit Union.
Summary: Article on the revelation in the Venona transcripts that McCarthy became a paid Soviet agent in 1950. Events described outwardly remain in-line with those of our history until near the end when McCarthy's handlers direct him to tip the 1956 presidential election to Adlai Stevenson.
Published: In What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Might Have Been (ed. Robert Cowley), q.v.