As Evans' book makes eminently clear, this is like saying: "John Hinckley wrote prescient reports that Reagan would be shot."

Although it is possible, with a great deal of work, to slog through Radosh's endless "on the one hand, on the other hand" disquisitions in order to glean an occasional fact from his Amerasia book -- presumably inserted by his co-author Klehr -- it is not possible to believe that Evans got a single comma from Radosh's book.

Radosh's boast is a bit like claiming that Martin Scorcese's film "The Last Temptation of Christ" was a primary, uncredited source for the authors of the holy Bible.

Evans' copiously footnoted book makes clear that his Amerasia information comes directly from the FBI's files. Not only that, Evans has been writing about the FBI files on Amerasia since at least 10 years before Radosh's book.

Among the reasons we know this is from Radosh's own book -- published in 1996 -- in which Radosh attacks Evans by name for an article Evans wrote about the FBI's Amerasia file in Human Events -- in 1986. Radosh's book is so bad, apparently even he can't bear to read it.

So it takes a special sort of fabulist to write, as Radosh does in National Review: "Full disclosure: Harvey Klehr and I are co-authors of 'The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism,' a book from which Evans takes virtually all of his material and which he does not acknowledge."

If Evans had done that, instead of an exciting book full of true spy stories and dastardly Democratic malfeasance based on FBI wiretaps and surveillance, he would have written a boring book with an endless amount of agnostic gymnastics to avoid saying there was a Democratic cover-up. You know, like Radosh's book.

Radosh has been on the fence so long that the fence has pierced his buttocks and is affecting his brain.