Subversion

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1917 The First Red Scare's immediate cause was the increase in subversive actions (both real and imagined) of foreign and leftist elements in the United States, especially militant followers of Luigi Galleani, ...
1932 Hitler's pitch at Dusseldorf was that Democracy itself in inherently subversive. He went on to compare Democracy to Communism.
1938-1969 House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
1947-Today McCarthyism/Second Red Scare
1948-1952 Office of Policy Coordination (OPC)
1950s During the 1950s, McCarthyites attacked the social sciences and the Voice of America (VOA) as being a hotbed of subversion. This attack extended to the Ford Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, the Rockefellers Brothers Fund.
1955-1957 He did, and the Committee recommended a thorough overhaul of government defenses against subversion.
Charles Townshend described subversion as a term "so elastic as to be virtually devoid of meaning, and its use does little more than convey the enlarged sense of the vulnerability of modern systems to all kinds of covert assaults."
CIA media operations
Subversive
Under orders from Berlin, they infiltrated agents into every industry and the Army, Navy, and Coast Guard, until finally they matched the Irish in being instruments of Nazi subversive efforts.