If you are going to do a paper on Joe McCarthy please do your research.   First- do not combine McCarthy and the HUAC.   McCarthy was in the Senate.    The HUAC was in the house and started 7 years before McCarthy ever got into the senate. 2. In 1995 (or so) the government relseased transcripts of intercepted Russian intelligence.   These were reported and confirmed by the New York Times.    The net result was that Joe McCarthy was correct.    The people he said were communists were actually communists and the CIA knew that at the time from the decoded messages.   3. The vice president of the US under Roosevelt resigned and joined the communist party.   That is a very scary thought- if Roosevelt had died two years earlier we would have had a communist president.   4.   Please research Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers.   You can't do a paper on McCarthy and not include these two.    The story of the Underwood typewriter is pricless.   (Hiss claimed in court that Chambers broke into his house and typed the letters to the Russians on his typewriter without him knowing it)   You gotta love it. 5.   The Weavers influence on American Folk Music has always been understated.