"How the Reds Blackmail Homosexuals into Spying for Them!"

Title

"How the Reds Blackmail Homosexuals into Spying for Them!"

Subject

Lavender Scare

Description

This 1961 article describes the defection to the USSR of two NSA analysts. Though their defection was politically motivated, news accounts focused on their sexuality and suggested that communists would blackmail government employees by instigating or uncovering homosexual encounters.

Source

http://www.edb.utexas.edu/faculty/salinas/students/student_sites/Fall2008/6/

Date

1961

Contributor

Andrea Wiley
Josh Burke

Coverage

1960-1965

Files

how the reds.jpg

Citation

“"How the Reds Blackmail Homosexuals into Spying for Them!",” Satan Was A Lesbian: Queer Pulp in the Cold War Era, accessed May 3, 2024, https://queerpulp.omeka.net/items/show/120.