Hoover's recommendations were made at the height of the Korean War and many on the list were government employees in sensitive positions. Hoover was clearly wrong to suggest such a radical move since most of those on the list did not actually pose as an immediate threat to national security. A more reasoned and measured policy, at least regarding government employees deemed to be subversive, especially those in positions where they might influence public policy or engage in espionage, would have been simply to fire them at the very least.

As a bare minimum, the American people have a right to expect that their public servants, paid out of taxpayer funds, are loyal to the government to which they are serving and not working in the interest of a foreign power, especially, in this case, when the foreign power in question was an enemy of the United States such as was Stalin's Soviet Union and it's satellites.

At the time that this report was submitted, various agencies in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, and several Congresses, had already conducted intensive investigations of subversion and had already compiled extensive evidence of government employees secretly working for Stalin. The Truman administration had implemented loyalty boards in 1947 to address the problem.

Yet, in 1950, two years after Truman's loyalty findings, a couple of patriotic State Department employees had to drop dimes in order to alert Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin that a number of the documented security/loyalty risks, rather than having been fired, were still at their desks in the State Department or had been transferred to other agencies. The Roosevelt and Truman investigations had chosen to largely hush-up the investigations and do nothing about the problem.

At a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, McCarthy responded to the lack of appropriate action by going public with the Truman research. All Joe McCarthy did in that speech, and in subsequent investigations, was to site research that had been largely conducted by the Truman, and later by the Eisenhower administrations.

McCarthy wanted the government to clean it's own house, nothing more and nothing less. The original McCarthy revelations occurred around the same time as the collapse of China to the communists and shocking revelation that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg had assisted the Soviets in obtaining nuclear secrets which led to the development of a Soviet A-bomb.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, KGB archives have been opened which further vindicate McCarthy. As unfathomable as it may seem, Americans, many of whom were in important positions in the government back then, were in fact collaborating with the Soviets in such projects as the take-over of Eastern Europe, China, and elsewhere according to de-classified Soviet files. The publishing of the Venona decryptions, which were messages decoded by American experts and sent by the Soviets to American spies in the 1940's, further vindicates McCarthy.

And now further vindication with the release of this FBI document, reported by the New York Times, which contains twelve thousand names. This newly de-classified document, and any evidence that might still be classified which backs up its findings, should be made available to the public as soon as possible. Such public disclosure would go a long way toward clearing up the miasma of lies that have engulfed this subject.

For more information, please check out the excellent web site www.anti-cair-net.org. Chuck Morse is a Boston-area radio-talk-show host, author, columnist and former Republican congressional candidate. Web Site, email, phone: (617) 271-5044 and The Conservative Voice.