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Curtis Island News

Homosexuals Seen As Security Threat In 1964 The 1964 Cabinet Papers

Monday January 2, 1995
In 1964, homosexuality officially became a "serious character defect" that excluded a person from Federal Government jobs that involved highly sensitive information. According to the then Cabinet, a person's homosexuality was as threatening to its secrets as drunkenness, drug addictio