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If you add in that he was privy to official secrets and would be a potential target to foreign powers then his apparent promiscuity would also be an issue of na
by andrewvc 14y ago
If you add in that he was privy to official secrets and would be a potential target to foreign powers then his apparent promiscuity would also be an issue of national security - I think a person in his position now would be vilified by the press and that it would be right for them to be disciplined (at least) for conduct unbecoming of an intelligence service office holder.
This is puritanical BS. He was a single man dating adults. That's his own business, the press plays it up because society as a whole loves gawking at this sort of behavior, but it's no risk to anyone.
- pbhjpbhj 14y agoIt may well be too puritanical for you but there have been far more recent cases of sexual impropriety with intelligence personnel (like affairs, or being married to someone who's promiscuous) that have ended the careers of the intelligence personnel. Personally I'd expect a current serving officer with high level security clearance who is privy to some of our most sensitive national secrets to be disciplined for seeking sex with random youths (of any persuasion). If you're in this sort of position you need to get security clearance for sexual partners surely? Do you really want your "spies" getting intimate with any random person that flirts with them at the cinema? The Profumo Affair doesn't seem a million miles away as an analogue. I'm not cognisant with many such cases however. There was the Max Mosley scandal - an MI5 agent "resigned" because his wife had sex with someone else.
- EliRivers 14y agoAre you saying that people giving up secrets isn't a security issue?