"The operation to out Navy sailors was called 'Section A' and was dreamt up with the express motive to rid the U.S. Navy in Newport, Rhode Island, of all 'c*cksuckers and rectum receivers.'"
"'Volunteer agents would have gay sex and then tell on the sailors they had sex with for being gay.'"
"'It wouldn't just take one time, like the covert op would have sex with someone like three or four times before they would get the person,' historian Sherry Zane told The 19th."
In 1919, a covert operation called 'Section A' was initiated to identify and expel gay sailors from the U.S. Navy. This plan involved volunteer agents who would engage in sexual encounters with suspected gay sailors and report them. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was aware of this entrapment strategy and consulted legal advisors to ensure its legality. The operation required agents to gather substantial evidence, often engaging multiple times with targets to confirm their sexual orientation before reporting them.
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