>McCarthy was somewhat right in that the administration, secret services and universities were riddled with Communists. What sort of evidence do you have for t

>McCarthy was somewhat right in that the administration, secret services and universities were riddled with Communists. What sort of evidence do you have for this assertion? As I recall, McCarthy's "evidence" was a bunch of baseless accusations made by others who were themselves accused of being Communists. The accused were promised leniency if they would only point out others who were either Communists, or Communist-sympathizers. As one can imagine, this led to a lot of innocent people being accused simply for being associated with another accused person.