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communism is so often described as an ideology or a belief that exists somewhere other than in the United States let me ask you sir just how serious a threat to our national security of these communist subversive activities in the United States today well I think they're serious I think it's a matter that we should continue to give great care and attention to we should support the laws which the United States has passed in order to protect us from those who would destroy us from within we should sustain the Department of Justice in its efforts in the FBI and we should be continually alert I think if the United States is maintaining a strong society here in the United States I think that we can meet any internal threat the major threat is external and will continue for we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covet means for expanding its sphere of influence on infiltration instead of invasion on subversion instead of elections on intimidation instead of free choice on gorillas by night instead of armies by day it is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit highly efficient machine that combines military diplomatic intelligence economic scientific and political operations its preparations are concealed not published its mistakes are buried not headlined its dissenters are silenced not praised no expenditure is questioned no rumor is printed no secret is revealed it conducts the Cold War and short with a wartime discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match nevertheless every democracy recognizes the necessary restraints of national security and the question remains whether those restraints need to be more strictly observed if we are to oppose this kind of attack as well as outright invasion
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