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McCarran Internal Security Act

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The McCarran Act or Internal Security Act of 1951 required communist and communist front organizations to register with the Attorney General. Members of these groups could not become citizens. Citizen-members could be denaturalized in five years. Congress overrode President Harry Truman's veto.

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