ENERGY DEPARTMENT DEFENSE SECURITY RULE ATTACKED BY HOMOSEXUALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87T00623R000200030057-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2010
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: July 26, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Energy Department
Defends security Rule
Att cked by Homosexuals
For years, many government
agencies refused to give known
homosexuals access to classified
materials, saying they would be
susceptible to bla kmail. Gay
rights organizations otested that
the policy was arbit and dis-
criminatory and, cording to
Melvin Boozer, dir for of civil
rights for the Natio Gay Task
Force, the groups hay made some
progress in recent y in getting
the federal,governme it to agree.
Still homosexualit is still of
concern to some a ncies. This
week a man sued the CIA, charg-
ing that he was fire because he
was a homosexual. A] d the Ener-
gy Department rece tly issued a
final rule directing he ring officers
to consider "sexual activity" in
proceedings to deny or revoke a
person's access to c ified ma-
terials or significant uantities of
special nuclear materi .
"The presumption t a homo-
sexual is more open blackmail
is extremely objectioi able,' Booz-
er said. He added one of the
major reasons people kink homo-
sexuals can be black ailed "is be-
cause the government cares."
DOE staffer Barry )alinsky ex-
plained that the p ase "sexual
activity" was not aimBd solely at
homosexuals, but at yone whose
sexual activities could make them
"go to great lengths to cover it
up."
The final rule included about a
dozed other reasons access could
be =d vied, including treason, as-
socia 'on with a saboteur or spy,
alcoh lism, financial irresponsibil-
ity mental illness.
None of the activities mean au-
tomatic rejection, according to
DalinSky. In making a decision,
the hearing officer is expected to
take to account when the activ-
ity dccurred and the person's
attitude and beliefs.
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