MI5 has been named the UK's most LGBT-iendly employer - but isn't long sce beg gay was nsired synonymo wh treachery.
Contents:
THE ERA WHEN GAY SPI WERE FEARED
* john maclean gay *
Image source, Getty ImagMI5 has been named the UK's most gay-iendly employer - but isn't long sce same-sex relatnships were nsired a threat to natnal secury.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
"How to spot a possible homo, " ran a headle the paper.
Below this, for MI5's benef, was a list of supposed signifiers of male homosexualy ("a gay ltle wiggle", "his tie has the latt knot", "an unnaturally strong affectn for his mother") pretext for this unsoliced advice - which now seems clearly offensive - was the se of John Vassall, a gay civil servant who spied for the Soviets unr threat of blackmail. A gay man, the paper's reporter said, was a facto secury risk: "I wouldn't tst him wh my secrets.