The American Deep State by Peter Dale Scott

Author:Peter Dale Scott
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781442214262
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

HOOVER’S POWERS AND THE STRENGTHENING OF THE AMERICAN DUAL STATE

The election of Eisenhower in 1952 enhanced Hoover’s status in Washington, and also that of his projects.

Hoover’s men . . . oversaw internal security purges throughout the government, destroying lives and careers over suspicions of disloyalty or homosexuality. . . . With the full backing of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, an FBI agent [personally approved by Hoover] named R. W. “Scott” McLeod took a job as internal security chief at State. His political purges of Washington and embassies and consulates overseas used FBI methods, including wiretaps, to force liberals and suspected leftists out of the foreign service.58

Between May 1953 and June 1955 only 8 persons were dismissed as security risks but 273 submitted their resignations. . . . The result was a self-censorship which undoubtedly had an effect on American foreign policy, few daring to express their opinions freely for fear they would be accountable to McLeod and, eventually, McCarthy, with whom he shared the findings of his investigations. Through McLeod and his cadre, Hoover was tapped into every part of the State Department. Aides say he knew many of [John Foster] Dulles’s decisions even before the President did.59

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