The Fifth Column Menaces America on a Thousand Fronts

This provocative, and almost overwhelmingly detailed, propaganda map was published three years into the investigations of the House Un-American Activities Committee and purportedly shows the extent of Communist, Nazi, and Italian Fascist sympathizers in the United States. On the back of the map is a directory listing hundreds of organizations suspected of being Communist, Nazi, or Fascist, ranging from the Communist Party USA to local sports clubs, and including the Artists Union, American League of Playwrights, and Theatre Collective Dance Group. On the front of the map, the country is divided into three Nazi Departments (whose borders are supposedly drawn from the Constitution of the pro-Nazi German American Bund) and 30 Communist Districts. The most heavily concentrated elements reside in New York City, which necessitates its own inset map. 

The Constitutional Education League, which produced the map, is representative of the ideology of its figurehead, Joseph P. Kamp. A noted anti-Semite and possible Nazi sympathizer, Kamp was indicted on charges of sedition for publishing materials that undermined the morale of the U.S. military, an example of which is the lengthy text on this map detailing alleged infiltration of the various branches of the armed services by Soviets and Nazis. The paranoid beliefs espoused on this map were part of a burgeoning ideology that would evolve into McCarthyism following the Second World War.