How many Soviet spies did McCarthy clean up in the US government? What are the famous ones?

Scientists Julius and Julius Rosenberg.

1950 in February, he publicly accused 205 * * * party member of infiltrating into the State Council, but failed to provide any specific names.

On June 1950, a blacklist group released "Red Channel: Report on Communist Forces in Radio and Television". This monograph lists more than 150 radio and television practitioners, and suggests that they should not be trusted as loyal Americans. The FBI forced the new york Photographic Federation to dissolve. With the popularity of blacklists, out of fear and cowardice, the wind of swearing allegiance prevailed for a while, even affecting university campuses. At the same time, Time magazine, Life magazine, Chicago Tribune and some newspapers of Hearst International Group also clamored for the release of Red Color.

1953, dwight eisenhower became president, and McCarthy broke with the party leader.

1On June 9th, 953, scientists Julius and Julius Rosenberg were sentenced to death in the electric chair, which triggered the white terror in the United States (although it was later proved that the Rosenbergs were indeed Soviet spies). They are also the only spies sentenced to death. In the radio, television, film and advertising industries, many people gave in to the pressure and agreed to blacklist some writers, actors, producers and directors just because some people alleged that they had "some connection" with capitalism. According to the declassified documents at the end of the 20th century, Ronald Reagan, who controlled the actors' union at that time, also played a role in fueling the situation and threatened Walter Disney to expose and persecute some actors.