McCarthy's Fear Mongering of the State Department

A week after McCarthy's famous speech about communists at the State Department, John Purifoy is testifying before a subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations. He reveals that the department had ousted 91 homosexual employees as security risks. This revelation was not the result of like some proceeding in which purifoy had to tell them about this and then someone, you know, publicly released that information. "This was very deliberately timed from what I can tell from this article," he says.