Fall 2006, Vol. 38, No. 3 By Robert Justin Goldstein Enlarge A newspaper article dated December 8, 1947, announces Attorney General Tom Clark's release of a new list of subversive organizations. (Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, RG 233) The so-called "Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations" (AGLOSO) was one of the most central and widely publicized aspects of the post–World War II Red Scare, which has popularly become known as "McCarthyism." AGLOSO burst into the American consciousness in December 1947, when it was published in connection with President Harry S.