"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
Josh Burke
Coverage
1960-1965
Files
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.