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==History==
==History==
[[File:DanielPatrickMoynihan.jpg|thumb|right|The report of the Moynihan Commission made reference to "comsymps."]]
Usage of the word "Comsymp" likely gained traction in the earliest phases of the Cold War. According to the bipartisan [[Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy]], chaired by Moderate Democratic U.S. senator [[Daniel P. Moynihan]] of [[New York]]:<ref>March 3, 1997. [https://sgp.fas.org/library/moynihan/appa7.html Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy – Appendix A – 7. The Cold War]. ''Federation of American Scientists''. Retrieved May 16, 2023.</ref>
Usage of the word "Comsymp" likely gained traction in the earliest phases of the Cold War. According to the bipartisan [[Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy]], chaired by Moderate Democratic U.S. senator [[Daniel P. Moynihan]] of [[New York]]:<ref>March 3, 1997. [https://sgp.fas.org/library/moynihan/appa7.html Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy – Appendix A – 7. The Cold War]. ''Federation of American Scientists''. Retrieved May 16, 2023.</ref>
{{cquote|By the late 1940s there was a great agitation in the land about Communists and "comsymps." As early as January 1947 the U.S. Chamber of Commerce warned of infiltration in a publication ''Communists Within the Government: The Facts and the Program'' (not all the facts within which were wrong). Next came Congressional investigations, notably those associated with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Careers were damaged, of this there is no doubt. But compared to the earlier outrages, the society, notably the Government, responded with comparative restraint. Again, there were casualties, but compared to the provocation. . .?|||Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, Appendix A, pt. 7}}
{{cquote|By the late 1940s there was a great agitation in the land about Communists and "comsymps." As early as January 1947 the U.S. Chamber of Commerce warned of infiltration in a publication ''Communists Within the Government: The Facts and the Program'' (not all the facts within which were wrong). Next came Congressional investigations, notably those associated with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Careers were damaged, of this there is no doubt. But compared to the earlier outrages, the society, notably the Government, responded with comparative restraint. Again, there were casualties, but compared to the provocation. . .?|||Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, Appendix A, pt. 7}}