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That there were communists working inside high levels of Government (including the State Department, the United States Air Force, and United States Army), and there were individuals working for the Communist Party or sympathetic to the Communist Party in all levels of government (The White House, Congress, and the Press). His accusations led the Second Red Scare to occur in the United States from his Wheeling West Virginia speech in 1951, to the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954 and subsequent censure by the United States Senate.

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