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Aug 19, 2008

Gay and Lesbian as Spies ?

A few minutes ago, KabonFootprint just read news from AOL and get little funny news about UK Spy Agencies seeks Gay and Lesbian recruits.

I don’t know what your opinion about this but in my opinion this is a good choice for UK Domestic Spy Agency because I think good spy agent not looks from their sexuality right ?

Maybe now it’s time for Gay and Lesbian to come out of the closet.

Below, Kabonfootprint blockquotes it from AOL news:

As part of an ongoing recruitment drive, MI5 is already wooing women, minorities and people with language skills. The fact that they’re now reaching out to Britain’s gay community is long overdue, said Peter Tatchell, a London-based gay rights activist.

“Until a decade ago, gay people were seen as a security threat, and as recently as two decades ago, they were being witch hunted and sacked from the security services,” he said Monday.

“It was part of the Cold War mentality that saw security threats, traitors, and spies everywhere,” he said. “Gay people were regarded as vulnerable to blackmail, even if they were open and out about their sexuality.”

Britain had some infamous gay agents during that era, such as Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt. The two men were caught spying for the Soviet Union.

The spy agency is shaking off its clubby image and becoming more representative of the community it serves, said Ben Summerskill, chief executive officer the gay rights group Stonewall, which publishes a job hunting guide that includes the spy agency as a prospective employer.

“My recent experience of them is that they’re not John le Carre, Graham Greene — it’s not that sort of tableau anymore,” Summerskill said Monday

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