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Executive Order 10450

Security Requirements for Government Employment

Signed by Dwight David Eisenhower on April 27, 1953.

Later amended
Signed recordApril 27, 1953

The date the President signed it.

Publication record18 FR 2489

The Federal Register edition of the order.

Later actionLater amended

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As signed

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These notes list later amendments, revocations, replacing orders, or other Federal Register action.

Amended by EO 10491, October 13, 1953; EO 10531, May 27, 1954; EO 10548, August 2, 1954; EO 10550, August 5, 1954; EO 11605, July 2, 1971; EO 11785, June 4, 1974; EO 12107, December 28, 1978

The National Archives records of later actions cover January 8, 1937 to January 19, 2017.

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