at the same time, jager hoover, the ambitious head of the fbi, was out to destroy general donovan's reputation to be viewed as a threat to his espionage in part. donna began to protect his former staff started burning the oss records of his former personal. that many of them, like jane and paul, had been left of center. julia and paul's poignant letters in the spirit captured the atmosphere of fear and paranoia that permitted a small diplomatic circle. julia considered mccarthy to be a desperate power monger, she wrote, and laid his potential campaign of innuendo and intimidation was destroying a country that she loved. i am terribly worried about mccarthyism, she wrote her friend, in 1954. what can i do as an individual? it is frightening. i am ready to bear my breasts, small size though they may be, stick my neck out, i won't come on back on anyone. to sacrifice cats, cookbooks, husband and finally self. inevitably, jane foster and paul child became caught in the bustle of mccarthy's red spice. on april 7, 1955, paul received an urgent telegram summoning him to washington. their old friend,