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Hodges biography suggests that the attitude of the US security agencies may have been a factor in identifying gay men as security risks post war. Alan Turing,
by keithpeter 14y ago
Hodges biography suggests that the attitude of the US security agencies may have been a factor in identifying gay men as security risks post war.
Alan Turing, The Enigma, pages 496 onward, several UK men suddenly removed from secret work in early 50s.
- gaius 14y agoThe American military has always had a very strange sexuality - on the one hand, "don't ask don't tell", but on the other, at Abu Ghraib and other places, the first thing they do as soon as grown-up supervision's back is turned, is sexually abuse male prisoners, and photograph it and share it. The norm seems to be, rigidly suppressed latent homosexuality.