Red Scare
Conspiracy theories tagged "Red Scare."
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McCarthyism — Communist Witch Hunt
Senator Joseph McCarthy's 1950s campaign claiming Communist infiltration of the U.S. government. Examining the Venona decrypts, actual Soviet spies, and the Red Scare legacy.
1950 · United States · Joseph McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, Roy Cohn
Debunked
Fluoride as Communist Plot
The 1950s-era conspiracy theory that Soviet agents promoted water fluoridation to weaken American resolve and health — parodied in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove and now revived by anti-government movements.
1950 · United States · John Birch Society, Robert Welch, General Jack Ripper (Dr. Strangelove)