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While it's been said Sen. Joseph McCarthy could have found more Communists by throwing darts at the Washington phone book, & HUAC (& its predecessor, the Fish Committee) found all of one actual spy (Alger Hiss), they were investigating...

So, with a POD sometime between the creation of the Fish Committee in 1930, & before the Hollywood Ten fiasco ( :mad: :mad:), WI the Fish Committee, or HUAC, had uncovered, frex, Harry Dexter White, or Saville Sax (who betrayed the fact SIS had penetrated the Sov one-time pad & recruited Ted Hall as courier), or Julius Rosenberg? Would it have lead the U.S. to other spies?

Might it have led to the uncovering of Philby, Burgess, or Maclean sooner? To Gouzenko's defection sooner? To, frex, the defection of Golitsyn sooner?

Or would it, conversely, have led to more anti-Communist paranoia & an even earlier, & worse, Hollywood blacklist?:eek::eek::eek:
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