Fallout: The Red Scare and the Rebel Café As the Cold War fostered an increasingly inquisitive Red Scare, however, this visibility could ... McCarthy's tactics also included smear campaigns in the press, aided by Hearst newspaper columnists and the ... fake passport for communist leader Gerhart Eisler, the nation's “no.
And there were plenty of Commie stalkers in harness—had been since the Red Scare of the 1920s. ... The Republicans had scored with their Red-baiting tactics in the 1946 election, and Nixon was one of many who advised that the party should exploit ... “The principal character of this conspiracy,” Nixon charged, was Gerhart Eisler, “alias Berger, alias Brown, alias Gerhart, alias Edwards, alias Liptzin, ...