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78 years ago during the rise of McCarthyism in the United States, a group of 10 men, screenwriters, filmmakers, producers, and the like, were summoned to Washington, DC to answer questions before a congressional panel called the House on American Activities Committee, HUAC for short. The panel had a simple question for them. Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? If the answer was yes, the panel wanted to know who else you knew or suspected to be a communist or a communist sympathize ...