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Article: House Committee on Un-American Activities
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HOUSE COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES.
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) searched for communists and other suspected subversives for nearly forty years. Founded in 1938 as the House Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities and chaired by a conservative Texas Democrat, Martin Dies, HUAC became a standing committee of the House in 1945. In 1969 it announced a new focus, domestic terrorism, and received a new name, the House Internal Security Committee. Six years later, in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate, the full House abolished the committee.
Prior to HUAC's founding, congressional investigations of ...