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The Subcommittee on Investigations established to identify homosexuals working in government.

1949

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In particular, the focus is on identifying "sexual perverts" who are perceived to be a national security risk.

Homosexuals and communists will become linked in the national imagination as the subcommittee moves to focusing on "Infiltration of Subversives and Moral Perverts into the Executive Branch of the United States Government."

This confusion and linked fear of homosexuals and communists will explode into mainstream life throughout the 1950s.