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Defunct govt. anti-subversive group
Answer for the clue "Defunct govt. anti-subversive group ", 4 letters:
huac
Alternative clues for the word huac
- Internal Security Act sponsor: Abbr.
- Grp. that interrogated Alger Hiss
- Grp. whose hearings led to Hollywood blacklisting
- '50s Red Scare gp
- McCarthy-era hearings grp.
- Hollywood 10 interrogators
- Cold War gp. that had witnesses naming names
- Sen. McCarthy ally
- Former Congressional gp. concerned with Communist infiltration
- Blacklisting org. of the 1950s
Usage examples of huac.
After showing up to testify before HUAC with Dean Acheson at his side, Harvard-educated Currie fled to Colombia.
Now, at last, we would hear the other side in the battle of relatively equal evil forces: Soviet gulags and fascistic oppression by HUAC.
We’ve got the heavy artillery that I’ll mention in a minute and I’m working on getting a batch of Fed surveillance photos: UAES brain trusters hobnobbing with known Communist Party members and HUAC indictees at Sleepy Lagoon protest activities back in ‘43 and ‘44.
Mal got scared and went for big verbal ammo: Loftis didn’t know Chaz Minear ratted him to HUAC.
Minear speculated to Doc Lesnick that her old man’s political juice kept her from being subpoenaed by HUAC in ‘47--and not one other witness mentioned her name.