supports HTML5 video‘Today, I apologise on behalf of MI6 for the way our LGBT+ colleagues and fellow citizens were treated and express my regret to those whose lives were affected.‘Being LGBT+ did not make these people a national security threat.
Of course not.‘But the ban did mean that we, in the intelligence and diplomatic services, deprived ourselves of some of the best talent Britain could offer.’Although same-sex relationships were decriminalised in 1967, the ban on LGBT+ people serving in intelligence agencies remained in place following a series of Cold War spy scandals.Two of the Cambridge spies, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt, were gay while a third, Donald Maclean, may have been bisexual.Mr Moore said that even after the ban was.