“I went around to people in the Agency that I suspected were homosexual—no one talked about it openly back then, but you usually knew—and I told them very diplomatically, ‘I don’t think you have the chance of a long-range career at CIA, better to do something different and get out now.’ Because with the lie detectors, even if they got past the first test, they were eventually going to be caught, so why waste the next four or five years of their lives before being forced out or never promoted? I didn’t mention homosexuality. I didn’t mention anything. I just spoke to them as a friend, and I
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