Whether you lose clearance probably depends on what it is. Given the circles the intelligence community recruited from, it can't have been a rare thing - three of the Cambridge Five were gay or bisexual, and their actions weren't due to blackmail. Guy Burgess was certainly known to be gay at the time, and it didn't stop him being given sensitive work.
It's also certainly been suggested that he'd have been fired earlier if he'd been officially found out earlier, conviction or no - somebody he worked with at Bletchley has been quoted as saying "It's a good thing they didn't know Alan was queer. We might have lost the war."
This rather tends to confirm what I've been told generally - the Americans got antsy about it and we threw Turing to the dogs to keep them happy.
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Date: 2009-09-04 11:38 am (UTC)It's also certainly been suggested that he'd have been fired earlier if he'd been officially found out earlier, conviction or no - somebody he worked with at Bletchley has been quoted as saying "It's a good thing they didn't know Alan was queer. We might have lost the war."
This rather tends to confirm what I've been told generally - the Americans got antsy about it and we threw Turing to the dogs to keep them happy.