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MR. DAWSON
D
NOV 13 1952
JUN
COPY
June 27, 1950
MEMORANDUM RE:
FILES DESIRED BY INVESTIGATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE
IN CONDUCT OF INVESTIGATION
I. Obtain the list of names of known and suspected homosexuals em-
ployed in Government from the following agencies:
1. Metropolitan Police Department.
2. Metropolitan Park Police
3. Office of Naval Intelligence.
4. Other agencies which may have assembled lists of
names, such as FBI, Secret Service, CIA, G-2 Army, etc.
The above names will be used to prepare a central card index
on suspected or known homosexuals in government. It is contemplated
that these names will be checked against Civil Service files and pos-
sibly the files of those agencies where the homosexual is believed to
be employed to determine whether any of these persons are still in the
government.
If they are found to be in government, the basic data which
the Subcommittee obtains will be made available to the employing
agency, so that an investigation or other appropriate action may be
made by the employing agency. It is not the intention of the Subcom-
mittee to make specific investigations in these individual cases, nor
is it the intention to make public these names in any way.
No central file of known or suspected homosexuals in government
service is now in existence and after the above central file has served
the Subcommittee's purpose as outlined above, it will be turned over to
the FBI, Civil Service Commission, or whatever other agency in govern-
ment will act as a central clearing house in handling these homosexual
cases.
escept
II. In some few cases known or suspected homosexuals were allowed to
resign or otherwise were removed from one government agency and
years
later turned up in the employment of some other government agency.
fun
For example, of the 91 homosexuals which left the State Department
in the past several months, 13 of these were able to obtain employ-
this
ment in other government agencies.
In order to determine the reason why a known homosexual has
no
been able to leave one agency and obtain employment in another, and in
any
order to determine the efficacy of the present methods of handling homo-
send
sexual cases, it will be necessary to make a detailed study of the methods
of handling these specific cases. Here again, the study contemplated in
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