G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

dominated. He also had been editor of the publication put out by the League Against War
and Fascism, a Communist united front organization.
Herman Zap: Zap was a training officer in the technical assistance administration and he
coordinated government training programs all around the world. His specialty was
economic development and social welfare. He also coordinated the exchange of persons
between the United States and other countries. He invoked the Fifth Amendment.
Shortly after the results of these hearings were made known, Trygve Lie attempted to
calm the waters of rising public concern by dismissing eleven of the Fifth Amendment
pleaders. The "Red eleven," as they were called in the newspapers, appealed the
dismissal to the UN administrative tribunal which promptly declared that they must be
either reinstated or be awarded substantial cash indemnities. As a result, seven of them
were put back into their jobs with full back pay, and the others each received cash awards
up to $40,000. (American taxpayers paid the lion's share, needless to say.) The UN
administrative tribunal which reinstated and indemnified these security risks to America
was composed completely of non-Americans. Seven nations were represented but at the
time the U.S. was not even entitled to a voice in the decision.
Shortly afterward, Senator Pat McCarran introduced legislation requiring that all American
citizens seeking employment at the United Nations receive a security clearance from the
attorney general's office. This was certainly a reasonable policy and one which most
Americans assumed had been in operation all along. Nevertheless, Trygve Lie was
alarmed at the suggestion and declared: "To my dismay, the only precedent I could
discover for such a law was the edict promulgated by fascist Italy in 1927. . . ." 29
Washington was equally alarmed. Just two days after the McCarran bill was introduced,
President Truman signed an executive order stipulating that the United States would not
undertake to instruct the Secretary-General as to American citizens he may not employ,
nor would it penalize any citizens that he might employ contrary to the attorney general's
judgment. 30 In other words, Hiss's "no recommendation rule" was to remain unchanged.
When the Eisenhower administration took over, there was a great deal of loud talk and
breast-beating about cleaning out the Communists, not only from Washington, but from
the United States staff at the United Nations as well. It was a fine campaign promise but
turned out to be just as sincere as the proverbial two chickens in every pot. Professing to
be anti-Communist is always good for votes. Since many Americans are perfectly willing
to accept a sincere face, a warm smile, and a little political oratory as a substitute for
action, the politicians know that they will seldom be called upon by their constituents to
produce what they have promised. When he was seeking our votes Eisenhower promised
to clear out the subversives. But he never did. The worst of the security risks stayed right
where they were, or were promoted. Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was actually trying to
do what candidate Eisenhower promised he was going to do, received the full wrath of the
new administration. Eisenhower even went so far as to issue an executive order which
became the basis for what was later called the gag rule. This injected so much red tape
into the proceedings of congressional committees investigating Communist penetration
into our government that it soon became quite impossible to obtain meaningful testimony.
Consequently, since 1954 there have been few attempts to investigate Communist
penetration of the U.S. Government. Apparently we are to assume that after Alger Hiss,
Lauchlin Currie, Harry Dexter White, etc., were exposed, the Communists suddenly lost
interest in trying to infiltrate the United States Government!
At any rate, part of this great pretense centered around cleaning up the mess at the
United Nations. Eisenhower set up a widely publicized international organizations