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Forward to Dwight D.
Eisenhower
In 1947 President Truman was worried about the
Commies. For many years AMerican politicians were overly worried about the
Communists. Communists words bothered politicians because the Communists
always pointed out the truth, that big business and the politicians ran the
government for their own benefit. Both the politicians and big business
worried that American voters, once hearing the truth, would turn the government
of the USA over to Communists. But, politicians in America have always
assumed the electorate was dumb. They assumed that Americans could not not
recognize the truth of what the Communists said, but reject the the foolishness
of Marxism. So, Truman, spurred on by the worries of dumb Americans, did
his best to stop the Communists from speaking by limiting what Communists could
do. Truman introduced an act that required "a loyalty investigation
of every person entering the civilian employment of any department or agency of
the executive branch of the Federal Government." For the entire text of
this document, discriminating against Americans with unpopular political
thoughts, see
The Truman
Loyalty Oath.
Of course, to stop Americans from having improper thoughts while they worked
for the Government, there would need to be a though police, a board -- a loyalty
board -- "in the Civil Service Commission ... of not less than three
impartial persons (ed note: with the proper political thoughts) ... ."
"Truman's Executive Order 9835 establishing the Federal Employee Loyalty
Program - resulted in an FBI that made "a name check on 2 million
federal employees in 1948 plus approx. 1000,000 new applicants each year (4.5
million name checks made 1948-58) If the FBI, more controlled than in the
1990s and less likely to shoot children in the back, found "derogatory
information" ... a full field investigation made and results given to 150
loyalty boards (27000 such field investigations were made 1948-58). The
employee with politically incorrect thoughts "could be fired if "reasonable
doubt" of loyalty was established by 6 categories: crimes, violent overthrow,
breach of official duty or disclosure of confidential information, or membership
in or association with any subversive organization. Anyone who had joined
a suspicious organization as a child or young adult could be fired. To assure
the protection of the wise Loyalty Boards and their investigators, there was "no
appeal beyond loyalty boards - no permission to confront a "confidential
informant" Fearful of the thought police, "10000 voluntary resignations
resulted from investigations before hearings conducted for great variety of
reasons" The reign of terror was so complete that, eventually, only 378
employees were dismissed or denied employment by boards and none of these were
spies. - To protect himself and his pals, "Truman issued another
executive order to keep these investigation files confidential and not disclosed
to Congress." Source:
Cold War Spies and
Espionage
Truman's thought police got expanded beyond government employees, when
Senator Joe McCarthy,
a (then) politically correct thinking legislator began investigating un-American
thinkers everywhere.
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