++It was such a success. HUAC won't even investigate the KKK because it was an "old,venerable" institution.
++Gingrich thought he would get support by only mentioning its anti-Nazi activities. But it also led to Japanese internment camps.
++Robert Bentley anthology of the hearings of the anti-American activities committees is a must read. He reproduces 100s of pages of the hearings on communism. The whole Holly wood Ten is there,including the Hollywood 11th--Bertold Brecht. Sterling Hayden gives an account of his time fighting with the partisans in Yugoslavia. Dalton Trumbo turns up but his testimony wasn't as good.
++This was at a time J.Edgar Hoover was fixated on the Communist conspiracy but said the mafia didn't exist. It was then my father-in-law resigned from the FBI because he asked to investigate organize crime in Boston and New York. Instead he was supposed to engage in surveillance on old Communists.
++But Newt Isn't the only one. Trump supporter Rudy Guiliani called for increased surveillance of mosques.
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