MI5 links up with gay lobby

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Source: Sunday Telegraph

The intelligence service, which deals with counter-terrorism within the UK, has hired Stonewall to try and attract a broader range of candidate. This year the organisation will appear in Stonewall's graduate recruitment guide, which lists gay-friendly employers.

Until the early 1990s, gays had been barred from sensitive government jobs because of fears they would be open to blackmail - this followed the revelations about the well-known Cambridge spy ring, the 1950s group of Cambridge graduates who worked in the intelligence service. Two of its ringleaders, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt, were both gay.

Ben Summerskill, director of Stonewall, who coincidentally went to school with MI5's Director-general Jonathan Evans, said: "I am optimistic that in 10 to 15 years their employment profile will look very much like modern Britain. There is no reason why there shouldn't be a lesbian or gay director-general."

He added: "People from all minority communities do have experience of getting on with people who are different and of fitting in. They are also good at doing these things in a way that is not conspicuous."



Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2573169/MI5-links-up-with-gay-lobby-Stonewall.html

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Remove the "why" of blackmail...

And you get talented, intelligent people, people whose knowledge of a sub-culture alone can be an asset. That said, that knowledge is hardly the only thing they know, and gays can grow in a job just as well as anyone else.

People who love and can love are not broken people, simply because they love in a way some knucklehead has been taught not to like.

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2. Hey, if Tom Cruise could kick ass in Mission Impossible...

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3. recommend

[Barrett808]

4. Shouldn't the headline read, "hooks up"?

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[Naythan]

5. k & r

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. Hey, they could seduce most of our fundamentalists!

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