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...several hundred homosexuals were fired from the Central Intelligence Agency, Pentagon and State Department. But since then, gay activists have worn down the bias against them in all Government branches except the military and intelligence agencies, which still ban gays on the ground that they are more susceptible to blackmail, and hence greater security risks, than heterosexuals...
...unidentified mid-level National Security Agency employee has successfully challenged this policy. He won the right to keep his job as a technical analyst despite his homosexuality, but only after agreeing to lessen the danger of blackmail by disclosing his sexual preference to his family (mother, sisters and brothers). Franklin Kameny, a member of the Washington, D.C., Commission on Human Rights and a gay activist, calls the decision "a major breakthrough...
Although Kameny dismisses the idea that homosexuals are especially susceptible to blackmail, many intelligence experts disagree. Says Cord Meyer, former CIA assistant deputy director for operations: "The Soviets specialize in homosexual cases. They assign KGB agents who are homosexuals themselves to entrap our agents." Another U.S. expert cites the case of a homosexual British clerk with the naval attaché's office in Moscow in the mid '50s, William Vassall, who passed Admiralty secrets to the Soviets...
...increased military spending by the Soviet leadership. Clearly, the task ahead for us is the management of Soviet power. We can no longer view every deleterious event that occurs in the context of Soviet duplicity. But we cannot refrain from challenging illegal, blatant Soviet intervention creating terror and blackmail in the Third World. On Soviet Intentions. The next...
...humiliation since the day the hostages were seized. That humiliation would be compounded if, a year later, the results of a U.S. presidential election were to depend to any significant degree on vote by the fanatically anti-American Majlis 6,500 miles away. The exact impact of Iran's blackmail on the U.S. political process may be as difficult to assess after Nov. 4 as it was to predict before, but the humiliation is no less acute...