The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was an investigative committee of the United States House of representatives. It was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and substance activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties. In 1969, the House changed the committee's name to "House Committee on Internal Security". They monitored society for anything it considered unpatriotic. It was supposed to protect America from subversion. In practice, it conducted ill-conceived witch-hunts and accomplished nothing useful.
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