10 Paranoiacs Who Were Right In The End

10 Paranoiacs Who Were Right In The End - Listverse:
#8  Joseph McCarthy

"A junior US Senator from Wisconsin, McCarthy is notorious for being the face of the 1950s Red Scare in which hundreds of American citizens were tried for conspiring against the US.
He accused hundreds of being crypto-communists and launched a witch hunt that deeply affected both the State Department and the Army. 
The thing is, there was really a communist infiltration in the works. 
Around that time, an intercept of Soviet documents from the KGB called the VENONA papers had established the existence of a mole at the top of the Department of State.
Although McCarthy was not entirely right in his zeal, there was a great degree of truth to his statements."