Senator Joseph McCarthy's
(1) U.S. Senator and patriot.(2) Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee who investigated paid, Soviet agents in the U.S. government. This was a result of the conviction of
Alger Hiss, a high level employee of the State Department, for
perjury. Hiss was responsible for Poland being handed over to the Soviet Union after WWII when he was
FDR's State Department advisor at
Yalta.At this time he was also a paid Soviet agent, a fact which he lied about
under oath to the U.S. Congress.(3) Never subpoenaed anyone from Hollywood, contrary to popular belief. This was done by the HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee, headed by Richard Nixon, then a Congressman from California.(4) Everyone he accused of being a paid Soviet agent, was found to be, when de-crypted Soviet era intercepts, released in the 90's, named all of the accused as Soviet KGB and GRU assets.(5) Patriotic American, successfully
vilified by the Left for doing his job, he was unjustly censured by the Senate.