Bond's pants each morning.

Just sayin'

It makes agents vulnerable to blackmail. What better way to counter this than to be pro-LGBT?

I thought they alway were, even back to the days of Burgess and Maclean...

The British intelligence apparatus is set up like the American one is.

Our FBI is equivalent to their MI5, or Security Service.
Our CIA is equivalent to their MI6, or Secret Intelligence Service.
Our NSA is equivalent to their Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

"Burgess and Maclean were in MI6, not MI5"

you are right, I should have said:


I thought they always were, even back to the days of Anthony Blunt and Graham Mitchell.

Peter Wright, who was deputy director of MI5, wrote about the British vetting process in his book "Spycatcher." They asked him maybe five questions and took him at his word on all of them - no investigation was ever performed, because "honourable" men would never lie and "dishonourable" men would never want to work for Her Majesty, right? Anyway, one of the questions he was asked was, "ever been queer, by any chance?" (That's how it was worded. Don't shoot the messenger.)

with a security check like that, no wonder they had so many communist spies.

asking about "queers" didn't catch Blunt and Mitchell either.

Go ask Alice, whose hair's not tall...

They know there are a lot of truly brilliant gay people, like some of the best code breakers from WWII.

MI5 is responsible for internal intelligence and security

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