First, it was Robert Welch, the grape juice guy.
Second, just about everything that Welch, and McCarthy ever said has been proven by the opening of the Soviet archives, so let's give up on the old "attack the messenger" ploy.
Welch did all he could to stop the far left from taking over the government schools, but because of faint hearts that didn't want to step out and be noticed, he failed.
Was Dwight D. Eisenhower really a Communist, as the JBS contended?