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Re:Qian Xuesen dies at 98; Co-Founder of JPL and China's spa... by zhemao on Saturday December 14, 2013 @04:06PM (#6907117)
A few of Qian's colleagues at JPL were also from countries under Communist control and they were never under suspicion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_von_K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n

So yeah, pretty much. From commie country + not white = commie.

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Re:Qian Xuesen dies at 98; Co-Founder of JPL and China's spa... by ryanhuff on Saturday December 14, 2013 @05:51PM (#6907455)
That doesn't explain all of the "white" people that were investigated (and black listed) during the "Second Red Scare" of the 1950's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

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