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It was more of an ill-fated "witch hunt". There was no real plan that was developed or put into operation. Fear and paranoia were both used to their fullest extent. It turned out to be a curtain raiser that exposed how bad some of our elected officials can be. The American public, with it's notoriously short memory, has long sense forgotten this lesson.

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a plan to stop communism from spreading in the united states.

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