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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

United States of America · Politics / Republican Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1954

Joseph McCarthy2 September 1954

Politics / Republican Party

Claims that the CIA has been infiltrated by Communists

Names involved

Joseph McCarthy

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