Joseph McCarthy appears in the Epstein files as a historical reference point in documents discussing political figures, legal history, and Cold War-era politics. He is not directly connected to Epstein but is mentioned in comparative or historical contexts.
McCarthy appears exclusively as a historical reference in documents that discuss other figures or political movements. The mentions span various contexts: comparing McCarthyism's tactics to modern politics, discussing his aide Roy Cohn (who later mentored Donald Trump), referencing his investigations during the Red Scare era, and citing Edward R. Murrow's famous reporting on McCarthy. One mention discusses how homosexuality accusations were weaponized against McCarthy himself. Another reference appears in a manuscript about cybernetics, noting how McCarthy's influence led to excessive classification of military information. The documents appear to be manuscripts, articles, and analysis pieces rather than personal correspondence.
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eagues, including John von Neumann and Claude Shannon, who were interested in the commercialization of the new technologies. Second, computer pioneer John McCarthy disliked Wiener and refused to use Wiener’s term “Cybernetics.” McCarthy, in turn, coined the term “artificial intelligence” and became a founding fa
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016814 →ical ones, especially Cold War restrictions that threatened the flow of information so critical to cybernetic systems: “Under the impetus of Senator [Joseph] McCarthy and his imitators, the blind and excessive classification of military information” was driving political leaders in the United States to adopt a “sec
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eagues, including John von Neumann and Claude Shannon, who were interested in the commercialization of the new technologies. Second, computer pioneer John McCarthy disliked Wiener and refused to use Wiener’s term “Cybernetics.” McCarthy, in turn, coined the term “artificial intelligence” and became a founding fa
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016231 →gical ones, especially Cold War restrictions that threatened the flow of information so critical to cybernetic systems: “Under the impetus of Senator [Joseph] McCarthy and his imitators, the blind and excessive classification of military information” was driving political leaders in the United States to adopt a “sec
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ly cultivated a set of older mentors, including Roy Cohn, the flamboyant lawyer and fixer who had served as right-hand man to the red-baiting Senator Joe McCarthy. And then there was the harsh fact that the world of Manhattan and particular its living voice, the media, seemed to cruelly reject them. The media
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019940 →nging from Murray Kempton in 1950 for his articles on labor in the south and Edward R. Murrow in 1954 for his critical reports on civil liberties and Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Red Scare; to 2017 newspaper winner, David Fahrenthold, for exposing Donald Trump’s sexual harassment and mismanagement of his
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021115 →nging from Murray Kempton in 1950 for his articles on labor in the south and Edward R. Murrow in 1954 for his critical reports on civil liberties and Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Red Scare; to 2017 newspaper winner, David Fahrenthold, for exposing Donald Trump’s sexual harassment and mismanagement of his
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021218 →nging from Murray Kempton in 1950 for his articles on labor in the south and Edward R. Murrow in 1954 for his critical reports on civil liberties and Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Red Scare; to 2017 newspaper winner, David Fahrenthold, for exposing Donald Trump’s sexual harassment and mismanagement of his
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ay whom America fought in that war! More than a quarter wrongly believed Columbus sailed to the New World after 1750. Half didn’t know whom Senator Joseph McCarthy investigated. And a third had no clue the Bill of Rights is the source of freedoms of religion and speech. Nearly a third couldn’t tell you who said
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t Communism of being homosexual. This smear tactic was used against HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015096 --- PAGE BREAK --- Whittaker Chambers, against Senator Joseph McCarthy and against J. Edgar Hoover. In that vein, gossips used to rant about Hoover and Clyde Tolson double-dating with Charles “Bebe” Rebozo and myself. N
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015098 →orcement Dir Khuzami/Kirkland(Barr) also rep'd NITE. Can't make this up. The center of IG Kotz scathing failure of the SEC in Madoff: SEC NY and Mr John McCarthy who ended up being Knight/KCG Chief Counsel. As I said: can't make this up. And, as we know Madoff started his career in NASDAQ penny stocks exactly
Page: EFTA00010925 →orgenthau. Morgenthau had taken on mobsters and power brokers. He had repeatedly prosecuted Roy Cohn, the sleazy New York lawyer who had been Senator Joe McCarthy’s right-hand man. (One of Cohn’s clients and protégés was a young New York City real estate developer named Donald Trump.) When Cohn complained that
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