subversives

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These Super Glue subversives have been derided as publicity-seeking Philistines and hailed as martyrs for a vital cause.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2022

Some of them provided for the roundup and detention of Americans who were on a list of so-called subversives.

From Salon • May 23, 2022

A mission to find subversives within San Francisco’s Chinese community has far-reaching consequences for an FBI agent.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2020

Obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the F.B.I. files in this collection monitor writers considered by the government to have been subversives.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2018

"McCarthyism" became a catchphrase for the hunt for communist subversives, a frenzy that would engulf the United States for the rest of the 1950s.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau