employment. they were considered national security threats, and there were no filters applied to what was written in these documents, and in fact, it was more than what was just written at the documents, but it is the action that was taken by the federal ooh fishls to purge the government of homis ex wall employees. >> how would they go about doing that? >> well, initially, not an investigative authority to look into exactly who the homis ex wall federal employees were, but subsequently in 1953, president eisenhower signed something called the executive order 10450 which authorized the investigation of suspected homis ex wall-- homis ex wall e sexe