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Created in 1938, the committee’s purpose was to investigate the activitieds of subversives, or communist and Nazi sympathizers in the United States. However, in 1945, the temporary committee became permanent. Although the committee did not investigate groups such as the KKK, through executive order 9835, the Truman administration began to target civil servants for investigation. The executive order