LESBIAN WINS A POINT IN CASE AGAINST CIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2010
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• Publication Date: November 29, 1985
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SAN FRANCISO CHRONICLE (CA)
29 November 1985
Lesbian Wins a Point
In Case Against CIA
By William Carlson
A lesbian who claims the
CIA denied her security clear-
ance because of her sexuality
got court permission Wednes-
day to continue with her law-
suit.
U.S. District Judge Eugene
Lynch denied a motion by the gov.
ernment to dismiss the suit on the
grounds that security clearances
are an executive branch matter out-
side the authority of the courts.
"(The Constitution) does make
the president the commander in
chief of the military, and it also
gives him power to make treaties
and appoint ambassadors. But that
is hardly a grant to the CIA of unfet-
tered discretion to ignore the civil
rights of United States citizens,".
Lynch said in his decision yester-
day.
Julie Dubbs; a technical illus-
trator, sued the CIA In July, con-
tending that the agency has an
across-the-board policy of refusing
security clearances to homosexuals.
The 39-year-old woman, who
works for SRI International in Men-
lo Park, claims that denial of a CIA
security clearance prevents her
from getting more lucrative jobs.
In a letter she received from
the CIA dated 1911, the agency said
Dubbs' homosexual activity "raises
serious doubts about your reliably
ty and your susceptibility to coral
promise by a hostile intelligence
service."
"Certain hostile intelligence
services regard homosexual behav-
ior as a vulnerability which can be
used to their advantage," the letter
said.
Dubbs claims that the agency's
reasoning does not apply in her case
because she is openly gay and there-
fore not susceptible to blackmail.
She has asked the court to declare
the CIA policy on gays unconstitu-
tional and to order that her security
application be reconsidered.
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