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truman begins the federal employment loyalty program. what is the purpose?

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1. A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the origins of thenational security state, 1945-1954 by Michael J. Hogan - 1998 - 554 pages ... decided on 21 March 1948 to establish a federal employee loyalty program ... individuals could be denied employment or dismissed from federal service if deemed a security threat. But you asked the purpose: simple Truman wanted a program that would investigate and handle any such as communists "threats" but one that alowed for civil rights safeguards. He did not like the Republican's plans so he got his going sooner, as to allow for such as appears and to keep the FBI (J Edgar Hoover) out of the issue. 560 persons were removed or denied Federal employment White House aide Clark Clifford later admitted, the loyalty program was "manufactured" to silence the GOP It eventually went away but later laws attached such as gays in Federal Service, and eventually these all went away, well not the military's. To my readings I see no spies were ever discovered, but they as we see in a new movie were in the FBI. Good question on a forgotten time.