Synopsis
Miss Eleanor Bontecou's study covers the loyalty-security program in its entirety. The raw materials of the study have been in large part the fruits of personal interviews with a large number of Government officials, together with a steady stream of administrative directives never made readily available to the public. Furthermore, the loyalty programs, frankly experimental in many of its aspects, has changed almost from day to day as the study progressed. This study was substantially completed by midsummer 1952. Important developments have been noted up to the time that the manuscript went to press in January 1953. Since that time a new screening order has been announced but not yet issued. Undoubtedly it will change many of the procedures described in this book, but the basic problems discussed probably will continue to plague those who must administer the new program. This study is an attempt, and a highly successful one, to present with accuracy and objectivity the facts about the background, organization, operation, and results of the security-loyalty program in the Federal Government, and to build upon this foundation a careful critical appraisal of the program's achievements and shortcomings. Miss Bontecou spent the summer of 1950 in England studying British loyalty-security policies and procedures. For such light as they may throw upon our own problems, her findings as of that date are presented in the final chapter of this book.
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About the Author
Cushman was Research Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology and Dean of the Divinity School of Duke University.
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