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Britain 'recruiting gay spies'
Herald Sun ^ | 18 August 2008

Posted on 08/17/2008 10:04:36 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

BRITAIN'S domestic intelligence agency MI5 is actively recruiting gay spies and wants its staff to be more open about their sexuality, the Financial Times has reported.

The chief executive of Stonewall, a gay rights lobby group, told the business paper it had been hired by the Security Service - better known as MI5 - to help the agency encourage more gay applicants for positions.

"Historically, public services were delivered by the man from the ministry, who was white and heterosexual and got the 4.30pm (train) back to Tunbridge Wells every afternoon,'' Ben Summerskill said.

"This (move by MI5) is recognition that the establishment is changing and slowly becoming more reflective of wider society.''

Britain's intelligence agencies have in recent years attempted to cast a wider net when it comes to recruiting - the country's foreign intelligence service MI6 placed its first-ever advertisement for jobs in a newspaper in May 2007, and in recent years, it has launched its own website.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: espionage; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; mi5; pommypoofs; pooftas; rule1; spies
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To: Joe 6-pack

Looks like a Cambridge Man.


41 posted on 08/18/2008 8:34:17 AM PDT by bmwcyle (If God wanted us to be Socialist, Karl Marx would have been born in America.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

seems the security is not so important any more at MI5.

lets hope we don’t go to “00poof”


42 posted on 08/18/2008 8:39:40 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: bmwcyle

Lawrence was an Oxford man; Crowley was a Cambridge man....take your pick.


43 posted on 08/18/2008 8:45:02 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

is there any actual EVIDENCE or is this more homosexual politics claiming the dead. (see George Washington, Abraham Lincholn, on and on and on...)


44 posted on 08/18/2008 8:49:08 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory
"...is there any actual EVIDENCE or is this more homosexual politics claiming the dead."

Lawrence's sexuality has been the conjecture of numerous historians since not long after his death...so much so there's an entire section dedicated to it under his Wikipedia entry. While he denied being a homosexual, he was a known masochist and there is ample testimony he paid people to slap him around...whether this was a sexual thing or strictly a mental discipline/pain control thing can be (and is) debated. Acquaintances have suggested everything from him being homo, hetero, bi or even asexual.

Crowley made no pretenses about his bisexuality.

45 posted on 08/18/2008 9:02:34 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Queens of England.


46 posted on 08/18/2008 3:51:00 PM PDT by nonsporting
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To: Tainan

No mate. That’s Rule 2. Rule 3 reiterates NO POOFTERS!


47 posted on 08/18/2008 4:51:38 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Oi Oi Oi....have a wattle!


48 posted on 08/18/2008 7:09:37 PM PDT by Tainan (Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

“’Penny! You look fabulous!”

49 posted on 08/18/2008 7:18:10 PM PDT by RichInOC ("Rule One: NO POOFTERS!")
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