'ware the Communist menace!  Red scare and lavender scare days. Starting in the late 1940s, a series of Executive Orders were issued to purge any subversive, disloyal, immoral, or perverted person from the military and Federal employment. "All persons privileged to be employed in the departments and agencies of the Government shall be reliable, trustworthy, of good conduct and character, and of complete and unswerving loyalty to the United States."