British spy
chief apologizes for how
GCHQ has
treated gay
people, including Alan Turing
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.
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"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.
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