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The '''Attorney General's list''' of [[subversion (political)|subversive]] oganizations was published on the ''Federal Register 13'' on 20 March 1948.  The list consists of organizations classified as Soviet communist controlled.

The '''Attorney General's list''' of [[subversion (political)|subversive]] oganizations was published on the ''Federal Register 13'' on 20 March 1948.  The list consists of organizations classified as Soviet communist controlled. 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. Although [[Roosevelt]] had forbidden hearing messages between the Soviet Union and America and/or Canada, the secret services did not adhere to it. The [[Venona project]] revealed massive inifiltration of American institutions, government, social and political life by operatives of a foreign government. The fact that someone was a member at a federation, a committee or a Soviet group of supports, did not mean still for a long time that this person was an active communist or a feeler gauge. Thousands of people with an inclination for [[liberal]] thinking became members, without being or the ideas of communism support thereby communists. The variety of these groups shows however completely clearly that Moscow infinitely set up many traps for the harmless ones and the sympathizers, in order to then recruit into the communist underground from these groups.  

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]] intervcepted 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.

 

Thousands of people with an inclination for radical thinking signed petitions or became members of these groups without being aware of the Communist control of the group.  

==The 1948 list==

==The 1948 list==