Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations
- Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations
The United States Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations was a list drawn up on April 3, 1947[cite web | title=Prelude to McCarthyism: The Making of a Blacklist| work=Goldstein, Robert Justin, "Prologue", U.S. National Archives| url=http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/fall/agloso.html| accessdate=November | accessyear=2006 ] at the request of the United States Attorney General.][ The list intended to be a compilation of organizations seen as "subversive" by the United States government. Among those were: alleged Communist fronts, the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazi Party.]History
The Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations (AGLOSO) stemmed from U.S. President Harry S. Truman's issuance of Executive Order 9835.[ EO 9835 established the first Federal Employee Loyalty Program designed to root out Communist infiltration in the U.S. government. The list was compiled by House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) members, John McDowell, a Pennsylvania Republican, Richard Vail, an Illinois Republican and John Wood, a Georgia Democrat, as assigned by committee Chairman J. Parnell Thomas. Their first edition of the list was ready to be presented to Attorney General Tom C. Clark within a few days.][cite web | title=Hoover and the Un-Americans| work=O'Reilly, Kenneth, Chapter 8:Counter Intelligence, University of Pennsylvania| url=http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/hoover.html| accessdate=February 5 | accessyear=2007] The list went through several incarnations until it was finally abolished by President Richard M. Nixon in 1974.][cite news | last =Pear| first =Robert| coauthors =| title =Immigration Service Keeps List Of 'Proscribed' Groups in Nation; Basis for Listing Groups| work =| pages =A19| language =English| publisher =New York Times| date =1980-10-27| url =http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0D12FA3D5E12728DDDAE0A94D8415B8084F1D3| accessdate =2007-02-05 2007] ]Impact
AGLOSO's impact was immediate but not all important. The list, whose purpose was to provide a guide for the loyalty boards mandated by EO 9835, was employed by the FBI immediately. Though it was consulted by the FBI during its investigations it was still only one of many listed they used. AGLOSO was not all encompassing. If a federal employee belonged to a group listed by HUAC but not on the AGLOSO they still reported that fact to the Justice Department and the appropriate loyalty boards.References
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