Charged with inciting a fraudulent Red Scare in the nation and soiling the names of many innocent persons, Senator Joseph McCarthy is regarded today as a fanatic, a bully, and a demagogue. He has been assessed by history to be so detestable the term “McCarthyism” amounts to being a witch-hunting extremist. However, irrefutable evidence now exists of a constant Communist push in the 1940s and 50s to infiltrate our government, uncover its secrets, and degrade its security. Evidence shows that communists had, indeed, entered the highest levels of the U.S. government. Most surprising of all, U.S. officials safeguarding this threat not only allowed it to happen but actively covered it up. All of this was just as Joe McCarthy contended.