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Just to test your knowledge, can you name some the groups that were targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee?

While we're at it, can you name the groups that the FBI's COINTELPRO targeted?

The Hollywood Ten

* Alvah Bessie, screenwriter
* Herbert Biberman, screenwriter and director
* Lester Cole, screenwriter
* Edward Dmytryk, director
* Ring Lardner Jr., screenwriter
* John Howard Lawson, screenwriter
* Albert Maltz, screenwriter
* Samuel Ornitz, screenwriter
* Adrian Scott, producer and screenwriter
* Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter

Just to test your knowledge, can you name some the groups that were targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee?Various socialist groups, though I'm sure others were targeted, also.
(Edit: including the Hollywood Ten, which Kecibukia was kind enough to post.)

While we're at it, can you name the groups that the FBI's COINTELPRO targeted?The Black Panthers, among others.

Just to test your knowledge, can you name some the groups that were targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee?


That's the McCarthy thing, right?

Let's see, didn't they go after Consumer's Union among others? You know, the guys who publish consumer reports and rate appliances and stuff.

That's the McCarthy thing, right?
Partially, it existed well before and after McCarthy turned it into a showcase, but he is the...star of the show in history.

Let's see, didn't they go after Consumer's Union among others? You know, the guys who publish consumer reports and rate appliances and stuff.

I believe so.

Anybody else?

Just to test your knowledge, can you name some the groups that were targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee?

The Communist Party, obviously, and a few other radical left-wing organizations. Off the top of my head I can't recall whether they pursued the extreme right as well.

Edit: Yes, they did. Thought so.

While we're at it, can you name the groups that the FBI's COINTELPRO targeted?

The KKK, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, several other groups within the radical sections of the New Left.

Anybody else?
Arthur Miller. Playwright.