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The '''Attorney General's list''' originally known as the '''Biddle list''' (after Attorney General [[Francis Biddle]]) began during the administration of U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] in 1941 to track Soviet controlled [[subversion (political)|subversive]] [[front organization]]s.  The original list had only eleven organizations but was greatly expanded by the end of the decade. <ref>M. Stanton Evans, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=tQt3AAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies]'' (New York: Crown Forum, 2007) ISBN 978-1-4000-8105-9, pp. 55-60, notes).</ref>

The '''Attorney General's list''' originally known as the '''Biddle list''' (after Attorney General [[Francis Biddle]]) began during the administration of U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] in 1941, during the [[Nazi-Soviet pact]], to track [[Nazi]], [[fascist]] and [[USSR|Soviet]]-controlled [[subversion (political)|subversive]] [[front organization]]s.  The original list had only eleven organizations but was greatly expanded by the end of the decade.<ref>M. Stanton Evans, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=tQt3AAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies]'' (New York: Crown Forum, 2007) ISBN 978-1-4000-8105-9, pp. 55-60, notes).</ref>

the name of each foreign or domestic organization, association, movement, group or combination of persons which the Attorney General, after appropriate investigation and determination, designates as totalitarian, fascist, communist or subversive, or as having adopted a policy of advocating or approving the commission of acts of force or violence to deny others their rights under the Constitution of the United States, or as seeking to alter the form of government of the United States by unconstitutional means

{{cquote|the name of each foreign or domestic organization, association, movement, group or combination of persons which the Attorney General, after appropriate investigation and determination, designates as totalitarian, fascist, communist or subversive, or as having adopted a policy of advocating or approving the commission of acts of force or violence to deny others their rights under the Constitution of the United States, or as seeking to alter the form of government of the United States by unconstitutional means.<ref>[http://www.trumanlibrary.org/executiveorders/index.php?pid=502&st=loyalty&st1= Executive Order 9835], Harry S. Truman Library and Museum</ref>}}

Om March 21, 1947, [[President of the United States|President]] [[Harry Truman]] promulgated [[Executive Order 9835]], directing the Attorney General to furnish the Loyalty Review Board with:

Attorney General [[Tom Clark]] compiled the list, and on March 20, 1948 it was published in the ''Federal Register.''<ref>Attorney General's list, ''Federal Register 13'', (20 March 1948).</ref> It did not list individuals.

 

{{cquote|the name of each foreign or domestic organization, association, movement, group or combination of persons which the Attorney General, after appropriate investigation and determination, designates as totalitarian, fascist, communist or subversive, or as having adopted a policy of advocating or approving the commission of acts of force or violence to deny others their rights under the Constitution of the United States, or as seeking to alter the form of government of the United States by unconstitutional means.}}

 

On 20 March 1948 it was published in the ''Federal Register.''<ref>Attorney General's list, ''Federal Register 13'', (20 March 1948).</ref> It did not list individuals.

Communist groups, which emerged both in the pre-war and the post-war list, are marked by one "". In the meantime some trade unions communists had excluded other openly communist groups from their membership lists, were dissolved, partially also by government resolution. The [[Venona project]] intercepted and translated messages of Soviet spies inside the U.S. reporting to Moscow, but the information was not translated until years later and was not used by the Attorney General to make the list.

Communist groups, which emerged both in the pre-war and the post-war list, are marked by one "". In the meantime some trade unions communists had excluded other openly communist groups from their membership lists, were dissolved, partially also by government resolution. The [[Venona project]] intercepted and translated messages of Soviet spies inside the U.S. reporting to Moscow, but the information was not translated until years later and was not used by the Attorney General to make the list.