Stonewall, country’s largest gay group’s help sought by M15.
August 18, 2008
British intelligence service M15 in a bid to attract a broader range of applications to combat the threat of Islamist terrorism since the London bombings three years back, will recruit gay spies.
The Sunday times, quoted the unnamed government official at Whitehall as saying “ the service (M15) seeks to reflect the broad range of the United Kingdom society which it serves.”
Until the early 1990’s, as a result of fears, that they would be vulnerable to blackmail. Until early 1990’s, the homosexuals were barred from sensitive government jobs because of fears that they would be vulnerable to blackmail.
Since July 7, 2005 London bombings M15, thought made a successive move to recruit British Muslims and speakers of Asian languages to fight against terrorism. The ensuing success drove M15 to take in gays as recruits.
Earlier, may be gays among the staff, but they were certainly nervous about revealing their orientation to colleagues because it may imply that they had concealed the fact from the recruiters at the time of recruitment.
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