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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Security clearances...
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Date: Fri, 4-Nov-83 10:55:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  4 10:55:41 1983
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I found your anecdote about a gay man who got a security clearance because
of (or in spite of?) his honesty quite reassuring.  What I'd like to know,
though, is whether there is an official policy regarding security clearances
for gays.  Was this an isolated case, or is it the rule?  I was told a couple
of years back that gays had long been barred from recieving clearances on the
grounds that they might be blackmailed, but that in fact many gays who came
out of the closet in order to preclude this argument found that they were
denied clearances anyway.  Is my information out of date?

Of course, my sympathies tend to go more to people who work in jobs where they
don't need security clearances anyway.  Since my own sexual orientation is
not likely to make any waves, I've often considered getting myself arrested a
couple of times at some nuke plant just to put a blot on my record and keep
myself honest...
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Prentiss Riddle
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