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CIA Recruiting Within "LGBT" Community for Spy Agency Staffing
The New American ^
| 08 December 2012
| Dave Bohon
Posted on 12/08/2012 12:36:39 PM PST by VitacoreVision
Once considered severe security threats within the nation's intelligence service, homosexuals are now being actively recruited to join the CIA.
CIA Recruiting Within "LGBT" Community for Spy Agency Staffing
The New American
08 December 2012
Apparently the Central Intelligence Agency is looking for a new style of agent. According to a National Public Radio report, as “part of the CIA's efforts to diversify its workforce, the spy agency is reaching out to a group that once was unable to get security clearance — lesbians and gay men.”
In late November the CIA partnered with Florida's Miami-Dade Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce for an event to network with homosexuals who may be interested in working for the agency. “This is the first time we've done a networking event of this type with any of the gay and lesbian chamber of commerces in the United States,” said Michael Barber, the CIA's LGBT Community Outreach and Liaison program manager. Barber, who made it clear that he is “straight,” emphasized that his agency is not as picky as it once was about whom it recruits, and now welcomes lesbian, gay, straight, and even transgender (LGBT) individuals for service in the spy agency.
“For many years, the CIA and other federal agencies routinely denied security clearances to gay men and women,” reported NPR, “until President Clinton signed an executive order ending the practice in 1995. Now, Barber says, the CIA even has a program for gay couples. 'We actually have LGBT employees serving overseas with their partners,' Barber said to the few dozen gathered at the networking event. 'So you can do it.'”
NPR recalled that hundreds of homosexuals were purged from the CIA ranks during the 1950s and '60s — for obvious security reasons. But as long ago as the late 1980s a select few were allowed to stay on, pioneering the way for today's wide-open compromise. Tracey Ballard, a CIA technical intelligence officer who spoke at the Miami-Dade LGBT recruiting event, recalled how she “came out” to her superiors in 1989, “knowing that the admission could cost her security clearance and her job,” reported NPR.
Shockingly, whoever was in charge let Ballard stay, so that today the CIA is rife with LGBT employees, and, as with most other federal agencies, even boasts a homosexual fraternity of some 200 members within its ranks. In addition, notes NPR, the “spy agency is one of the founding partners of Outserve, an organization that represents gay active military personnel, including those with the CIA.”
On its own website the CIA posted a press release boasting of its participation in a professional conference in November that catered to homosexuals interested in math and science careers. “For the first time in its history, the CIA served as a corporate sponsor of the oSTEM — Out in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics — recent national conference in Chicago, and led discussions in the Intelligence Careers conference track,” stated the release. “The CIA participated in the event as part of its nationwide outreach to diverse communities with mission critical talent.”
oSTEM is a “national society that promotes leadership opportunities for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and allied (LGBTQA) communities in the STEM fields,” explained the CIA release.
According to the release, Susan Gordon, the CIA's director of support, spoke to the 100 conference attendees, assuring them that “sexual orientation and gender identity have absolutely no relation to one’s ability to do the job. When you blend LGBT and STEM, you get innovation, different perspectives, connections between complex ideas, and applications that drive bottom-line business results.”
While seasoned intelligence experts would argue that such relaxing of standards by the federal intelligence agency represents a security compromise ripe for exploitation by those unfriendly to America, straight arrow CIA recruiter Michael Barber insisted to NPR that being openly homosexual “is no longer an issue for holding security clearance ... we want the best and the brightest regardless of your sexual orientation.”
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To: VitacoreVision
Here's a spy we could send to Japan, or back to Japan, not sure they would want him???
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posted on
12/08/2012 12:40:46 PM PST
by
GraceG
To: GraceG
“She” certainly would be immune from blackmail
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posted on
12/08/2012 12:42:50 PM PST
by
A_Former_Democrat
(Elections do have consequences, young people of America)
To: VitacoreVision
Real brilliant. Pack the agency with a slew of new Bradley Manning’s. This country is becoming too stupid to last much longer.
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posted on
12/08/2012 12:43:18 PM PST
by
greene66
To: VitacoreVision
I know, send this new group of spies exclusively to Muslim countries that practice sharia law....
John Lovitz: Yeah, that’s the ticket!
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posted on
12/08/2012 12:46:02 PM PST
by
GraceG
To: greene66
Send the queers to Iran to spook for us there - Muzzies will welcome them since there arent supposed to be any there.
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posted on
12/08/2012 12:47:03 PM PST
by
oldtimer
To: VitacoreVision
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posted on
12/08/2012 12:48:31 PM PST
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: VitacoreVision
Your mission, Mr. Cruise, should you decide to accept it, is to be the sex toy of Yassar Arafat to gain his confidence while gathering vital information to be sent to us.
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posted on
12/08/2012 12:48:48 PM PST
by
ArtDodger
To: VitacoreVision
As often pointed out here, this agency is packed with senior level, liberals from academia, and hasn’t been “conservative” for decades.
This is a great asset in Obama’s program to destroy America.
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posted on
12/08/2012 12:48:48 PM PST
by
G Larry
(Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
To: VitacoreVision
It must be getting harder to find people who want to work in this country than I thought it was. When the CIA is out there scrapping the bottom of the barrel, you know America is in heap big trouble.
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posted on
12/08/2012 12:49:02 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Don't tax me bro! Tax that guy over there!)
To: greene66
“This country is becoming too stupid to last much longer.”
No kidding.
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posted on
12/08/2012 12:50:15 PM PST
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: VitacoreVision
Why not? A couple months ago the DOJ was offering hiring advantages for (I’m not kidding) INSANE DWARVES. I’m sure they would have settled for a documented pattern of simple mental instability by a l’il person.
But still. Also, almost as incredibly:
Department of State established hiring advantages at Bengazi for Arabic-speaking folks handy with an AK but also HOMOSEXUAL. With benefits for domestic partner, etc.
And willing to work for $13,000 per year.
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posted on
12/08/2012 12:51:38 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: VitacoreVision
It’s weird how we never see any of the farticles about the U.S. Government “recruiting” with the “white community”. I guess whitey’s days are over.
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posted on
12/08/2012 12:57:03 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Don't tax me bro! Tax that guy over there!)
To: VitacoreVision
1. Dept of Energy Secretary has no car
2. Dept of Defense candidate threw his Vietnam medals over the WH fence
3. Dept of Treasury Secretary is a tax evader
4. Dept of State candidate has overseen three different Embassy attacks, in different decades, with many deaths
5. Hiring of Bengazi guards called for homos handy with AK’s
6. DOJ striving to hire insane dwarves as lawyers
WHAT DID I FORGET?
Help me build my completely true list...!
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posted on
12/08/2012 12:57:36 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: VitacoreVision
1. Dept of Energy Secretary has no car
2. Dept of Defense candidate threw his Vietnam medals over the WH fence
3. Dept of Treasury Secretary is a tax evader
4. Dept of State candidate has overseen three different Embassy attacks, in different decades, with many deaths
5. Hiring of Bengazi guards called for homos handy with AK’s
6. DOJ striving to hire insane dwarves as lawyers
WHAT DID I FORGET?
Help me build my completely true list...!
15
posted on
12/08/2012 12:57:54 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: gaijin
Just what government needs - more mentally ill people.
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posted on
12/08/2012 1:02:46 PM PST
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: VitacoreVision
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posted on
12/08/2012 1:05:02 PM PST
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
(Pennies and Nickels will NO LONGER be Minted as of 1/1/13 - Tim Geithner, US Treasury Sect)
To: VitacoreVision
40 years ago, my Dad was among hundreds they pushed into early retirement for being “broken down WWII vets”. No “Greatest Generation” sentiment back then! Now, look at them.
In the 80’s, I thought Moynihan was certifiable when he advocated abolishing this monstrosity. But, he was right.
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posted on
12/08/2012 1:06:03 PM PST
by
Forgotten Amendments
(I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
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To: gaijin
Nicely done.
Also, hate to break it to the rest, but the Company has been homo-loaded for decades. Nothing new under the sun here...
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