o answer questions as to their loyalty before the House Un-American Activities Committee in Congress (Fried 59-86).
Both of these examples occurred before the public rise of McCarthy in 1950. The third example, however, shows just how mainstream anti-communism was during McCarthy's public reign. Fried points out that most of the serious activities took place outside of McCarthy's realm. One of these involved the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS), which was packed with conservative Republicans, but not McCarthy. The SISS conducted an extended investigation into the State Department to determine who w
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