STATE DEPARTMENT CHECKS ALLEGED GAY CLIENT LISTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100390027-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: August 4, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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1- ' ?. ^'" THE WASHINGTON POST
Ci4 August 1982
Slate Department, Checks
Gay Client Lists
By Walter Pincus
Q'} ' WasAlna n .S$IItweuer
ti zesentatives of the State.'
p meat's .security .gffice last 'April
searched through material seized a
month earlier by area police from
lo&7?inale prostitution concerns that
listhd'- more than 1,000 alleged cli-
eras,,according to_informed govern.
mea.sources.
ahoy checked every name that.
matched that of an employe of the
department, one source, said. Their
sitbttequent investigation turned up
onn" civil service employe who
worked at the department and
whose' name was among the -mate-
rW.'Jie was described by one source
yesterday as a middle-level employe
1whrdid handle classified material."
:second, source, familiar with the
grate I)epartaient's , investigation,
said, "There was no question of a
security breach."
. Last week, sources said, that em-
ploye, whose name has not been dis-
closed, left the department. , i
State Department officials yester.
day refused- to comment on the
record about the case, citing a policy
that forbids . discussing . personnel
matters.
A spokesman said, however, that
sexual preference is "not per se a
condition of employment." He added
that suitability for the initial hiring
and continued employment of an
individual by the department could
depend on informing superiors of
matters that "could create a compro.
mising situation."
'As for the review of the client
lists, the spokesman said, "It is rou-
tine to check out one way or anoth-
er"- information such as that devel-
roped from the police raids.
One such raid, executed by D.C. l
...,and Arlington County police with a -
search warrant, took place on March
1$ - at a house in -Georgetown that
'w served . as the = headquarters . for
Friendly Models, alleged to be the
front for a million-dollar homosexual
business.
prostitution out-call
Newspaper stories on the raid Raid
that 11 boxes of business records were
seized, including.the names, addresses
and telephone numbers of up to 1,000
individuals who were alleged to be
"preferred customers." It was not dear
yesterday if the list of clients exam-
ined by State Department officials .-
came from the 1 iendly raid....
"Sometime in ' Apn1," one -source
said yesterday, the fact of the list
came to the attention" of State's se-
curity personnel, "and they went to
examine this list..
Stories have circulated recently in
Washington that the Friendly Mod-
els and other lists of male prostitu-
lion firms' allered clients have been
nffer d for S alp n fo ip gnvPrn.
mast intnlligenCe t genies.
One former investigator recently
told a New York State crime com-
mittee that such a list had been sold
to a Soviet agent, but later in an in-
terview with The Washington Post
the ex-investigator said that he could
not confirm that allegation.
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