State Department Purge event
also: McCloy's witch hunt, McCarthy-McLeod Inquisition
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U.S. State Departmentorganization · 6Joseph McCarthyperson · 4John J. McCloyperson · 4Allen Dullesperson · 3Washington, D.C.place · 2Chiang Kai-shekperson · 1Dwight D. Eisenhowerperson · 1Roy Cohnperson · 1Eastern Europecountry · 1George F. Kennanperson · 1Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigationsorganization · 1John Carter Vincentperson · 1Chinacountry · 1John Paton Davies Jr.person · 1
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as a hotbed of pansies, pointed head intellectual, parlor room pinkos, and other soft types that were vulnerable to communism. In the beginning, Foster thought McCarthy's reign of terror could be useful. He was just as eager to get rid of s…
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beat cop's attitude to the complex task of sorting out beliefs and allegiance in the U.S. diplomatic corps. McCloy, an anti-intellectual, shrewd, quick-tempered, and vindictive is how John Foster Dulles eventually described him. McCloy's wi…
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Most of its victims were highly competent, experienced members of the Foreign Service whose policy difference with the new Dulles regime simply rendered them incompatible for service. A number of these purge victims, such as John Carter Vin…
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George Kennan, simply because he took exception to the Secretary of State's liberation strategy aimed at Eastern Europe, a policy so dangerous that even Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers themselves would soon make clear that they had no in…
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battalion of some 350 inexperienced but gung-ho investigators began snooping through the State Department employee records, a cloud of fear settled over the State Department. Those whose files were tagged and sent over to McCarthy's subcomm…
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their career to be ended. By the time McCarthy's Washington bonfires were extinguished two years later, the careers of several hundred State Department officers laid in ashes. Early in the McCarthy-McLeod Inquisition, Foster realized that i…