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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyJuly 6th, 2016
FBI Memo: “Obstructive Tactics of Organizations” (Click to download. PDF: 155 KB/3 pages)
A month earlier, FBI field offices in Birmingham, Alabama, and Louisville, Kentucky, forwarded copies of a leaflet published by the East Coast Homophile Organizations (ECHO) containing instructions on “how to handle a federal investigator” (Jun 4). The Eisenhower-era Executive Order 10450 prohibited the federal employment of gay employees (Apr 27), and the FBI, the Civil Service Commission, and several other federal agencies were tasked to investigate and root out anybody on the federal payroll who might be gay. The ECHO pamphlet, which by its language was almost certainly written by Frank Kameny (May 21) of the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., provided some fairly straightforward advice: Don’t incriminate yourself, never lie, but also refuse to answer questions when necessary, sign no statements, give no names, insist on witnesses, and so forth. And get a lawyer.
This advice, based on the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, was deemed by the FBI as evidence of homosexuals “obstructing the efforts of the Bureau.” Meanwhile, the Justice Department had asked that the FBI provide to the Department’s Training Division “instructions issued by such groups as the American Nazi Party and the Mattachine Society to their members to obstruct the efforts of the bureau and law enforcement.” On July 6, the FBI fulfilled that request by providing a memo outlining “obstructive tactics” of five “certain organizations.” Lumped together in the five were the American Nazi Party, the Communist Party U.S.A., the Ku Klux Klan, the Minutemen, and the East Coast Homophile Organization [sic]:
The above consists of branches of the Mattachine Society in Washington, D.C. and New York, New York; the Janus Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Daughters of Bilitis, New York, New York. These organizations strive to gain acceptance for homosexuals at every level of society. Together, during the Fall of 1964, they issued instructions to their members on the manner in which they are to conduct themselves when questioned by investigators of the Federal Government and when they are arrested. A copy of these instructions, as they were received in FBI Headquarters from the Mattachine Society of Washington, Post Office Box 1022, Washington, D.C., is attached.
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