In response to public fears and Congressional investigations into communism in the United States, President Harry S. Truman issues an executive decree establishing a sweeping loyalty investigation of federal employees.
As the Cold War began to develop after World War II, fears concerning communist activity in the United States, particularly in the federal government, increased. Congress had already launched investigations of communist influence in Hollywood, and laws banning communists from teaching positions were being instituted in several states. Of most concern to the Truman administration, however, were persistent charges that communists were operating in federal offices.
In response to these fears and concerns, Truman issued an executive order on March 21, 1947, which set up a program to check the loyalty of federal employees. In announcing his order, Truman indicated that he expected all federal workers to demonstrate “complete and unswerving loyalty” the United States. Anything less, he declared, “constitutes a threat to our democratic processes.”
The basic elements of Truman’s order established the framework for a wide-ranging and powerful government apparatus to perform loyalty checks. Loyalty boards were to be set up in every department and agency of the federal government. Using lists of “totalitarian, fascist, communist, or subversive” organizations provided by the attorney general, and relying on investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, these boards were to review every employee. If there existed “reasonable grounds” to doubt an employee’s loyalty, he or she would be dismissed. A Loyalty Review Board was set up under the Civil Service Commission to deal with employees’ appeals.
Truman’s loyalty program resulted in the discovery of only a few employees whose loyalty could be “reasonably” doubted. Nevertheless, for a time his order did quiet some of the criticism that his administration was “soft” on communism. Matters changed dramatically in 1949-1950. The Soviets developed an atomic bomb, China fell to the communists, and Senator Joseph McCarthy made the famous speech in which he declared that there were over 200 “known communists” in the Department of State. Once again, charges were leveled that the Truman administration was “coddling” communists, and in response, the Red Scare went into full swing.
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Who checked Truman’s loyalty ?
https://www.unz.com/article/fifteen-years-before-kennedy-zionists-murdered-forrestal/
It was all the easier that, from the 1930s up to the time of Forrestal’s death, the communists and the Zionists were the same people in many instances, as David Martin points out. Although communism and Zionism may seem incompatible from an ideological viewpoint, it is a matter of record that some of the Jews who acted as communist agents under Roosevelt, turned ardent Zionists under Truman. A case in point is David Niles (Neyhus), one of the few of FDR’s top advisors kept by Truman: he was identified in the Venona decrypts as a communist agent, but then played a key role as a Zionist gatekeeper under Truman. Edwin Wright, in The Great Zionist Cover-Up, names him as “the protocol officer in the White House, [who] saw to it that the State Department influence was negated while the Zionist view was presented.” David Niles’ brother Elliot, a high official of B’nai B’rith, was a Lieutenant Colonel who passed information to the Haganah while working in the Pentagon.
Check out Beaty’s “Iron Curtain Over America.” It goes into extensive detail of the communist (jewish) control of the US during this period.
What a typical load of bullshit from History.Com. The Loyalty program discovered only “a few” Reds under the bed? The reality is that Communists and outright Soviet agents swarmed in Washington liked bedbugs in a cheap motel. The truth is that hundreds of actual Soviet agents were identified and thousands of Commie sympathizers were also flushed out. I suggest you read up on the Venona files and the book Blacklisted by History (a biography of McCarthy). If that is not enough to clean out your headgear. let me know. I can cite many more works that explain just how far the rot went in America. You see the Democratic party today, a collection of traitors and Marxists lunatics? Well, that is a result of the failure of the program to really purge out educational instituions of these thugs and accomplices to mass murder. In addition to the actual Communists who betrayed our country, there were millions of liberal goofballs who ran cover for them. One of the reasons for their burning hatred of Richard NIxon was his role in exposing Alger Hiss, the Soviet military intelligence agent who was our represenative to the founding of – guess what? – the United Nations. Or how about Sumner Welles? A typical arrogant Northeastern, “upper class” asshole, he “served” as a senior advisor to FDR. He was, of course, a Haaaaavard man. This prick made a total fool of himself by actually writing a book praising to the skies Laurence Duggan, another State Department Commie agent, who happened to fall out of a 16th story window the day after the FBI visited him to discuss his activities. A Congressman investigating this creep made the wry comment that we would be able to count the Soviet agents in the government as they flew out the windows. Welles was deeply offended by this and wrote his screed defending this sterling patriot. The career of Welles came to a rather un-Harvard end when he drunkenly propositioned a number of Negro railroad porters, who turned him in.
As Henry Ford once said, history is bunk. History.Com certainly is.
Harry had the fox investigate the hen house. His investigation was the prototype of the Warren Commission, the 911 Commission and the Mueller Investigation. Robert Welch was right.