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Appendix I Objectives, Scope, and Methodology Canadian officials cited the recent change in policy and their intent to keep a low profile on the issue. They believed that the military leadership would have more flexibility in implementing this policy if the issue remained low-key. Germany's chief of protocol said that "an official visit to units would serve no purpose." Israeli officials said our presence could be a disruption and preferred to maintain a low profile on this issue. Israeli officials felt that homosexuals were not an issue in the military and wanted it to remain that way. To obtain a list of credible government and military officials, homosexual and veterans advocacy groups, and academic sources to interview in each foreign country, we contacted the countries' Auditors General; U.S. government agencies, professional societies, and individual experts in a variety of fields, including the Congressional Research Service; the Army Research Institute; Walter Reed Army Hospital; the American Psychiatric Association; the American Sociological Society; the American Psychological Association; the American Ethnological Association; the American Anthropological Association; Lawrence Korb, a military analyst at the Brookings Institute; Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University; and Lieutenant General (Ret.) Bernard Trainor, Director of the National Security Program at Harvard University; public opinion polling experts, including World Association for Public Opinion Research, the Gallup Organization, and Roper Institute; U.S. veterans associations, including the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Association of the United States Army, Noncommissioned Officers Association, Retired Officers Association, the Military Coalition, and the Air Force Association; and U.S. homosexual advocacy groups, including the Human Rights Campaign Fund, Campaign for Military Service, Military Freedom Initiative, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, International Lesbian and Gay Association, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Gay and Lesbian Foreign Service Association, and Federal Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Employees. After we obtained a list of contacts for each country, we supplied the list to the respective U.S. embassy to verify the contacts' credibility within the country. Specifically, we interviewed the following sources in each country: Page 15 GAO/NSIAD-93-215 Homosexuals in the Military

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