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04-16-2016, 07:53 PM
British spy chief apologizes for how GCHQ has treated gay people, including Alan Turing
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LONDON — The head of Britain's digital espionage agency has apologized for the organization's historic prejudice against homo***uals, saying it failed to learn from the treatment of World War II codebreaker Alan Turing.
In a rare public speech, GCHQ chief Robert Hannigan told a gathering organized by the human rights group Stonewall that its ban on homo***uals had caused long-lasting psychological damage to many and hurt the agency because talented people were excluded from working there.
SEE ALSO: British intelligence agency GCHQ helped prevent 'Harry Potter' book leak back in the day (http://mashable.com/2016/04/11/gchq-harry-potter-book-leak/)
"The fact that it was common practice for decades reflected the intolerance of the times and the pressures of the Cold War, but it does **t make it any less wrong and we should apologize for it," Hannigan said Friday at the Stonewall Workplace Conference. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/16/gchq-apology-alan-turing/)
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LONDON — The head of Britain's digital espionage agency has apologized for the organization's historic prejudice against homo***uals, saying it failed to learn from the treatment of World War II codebreaker Alan Turing.
In a rare public speech, GCHQ chief Robert Hannigan told a gathering organized by the human rights group Stonewall that its ban on homo***uals had caused long-lasting psychological damage to many and hurt the agency because talented people were excluded from working there.
SEE ALSO: British intelligence agency GCHQ helped prevent 'Harry Potter' book leak back in the day (http://mashable.com/2016/04/11/gchq-harry-potter-book-leak/)
"The fact that it was common practice for decades reflected the intolerance of the times and the pressures of the Cold War, but it does **t make it any less wrong and we should apologize for it," Hannigan said Friday at the Stonewall Workplace Conference. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/16/gchq-apology-alan-turing/)
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