The Dulles brothers took Nixon under their wing. Nixon became Dulles’s mouthpiece in Congress. During this time (1948) Nixon and Joseph McCarthy received volumes of classified information about people in President Truman’s administration that might have been Communist or Communist sympathizers. They.called these type of people “pinkos.”
We know that McCarthy went after these people hard…including many in Hollywood.
Some felt McCarthy went too far, concerned that he would uncover too much.
During this McCarthy era, Nixon worked with then CIA director, Bedell Smith, to steer investigations against the intelligence community.
The CIA was grateful for Nixon’s assistance!