The State Department has discharged 126 homosexuals since Jan. 1, 1951, and is determined to remove any others from the department … “There is no doubt in our minds that homosexuals are security risks,” and “we have resolved that we are going to clean them up.”
—“126 Perverts Discharged,” The New York Times, March 26, 1952, quoting Carlisle H. Humelsine, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration, U.S. Department of State