Partner Bernon
Mitchell
William
Hamilton Martin (May 27, 1931 – January 17, 1987) was born in Columbus,
Georgia. His family soon moved to Washington state where his father was
president of the Ellensburg Chamber of Commerce. He graduated from
Ellensburg High School after two years. After studies at Central Washington
College of Education (now Central Washington University), he earned a degree
in mathematics from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1947. He
enlisted in the United States Navy and served from 1951 to 1954, working as
a cryptologist with the Naval Security Group in Japan. As hobbies, Martin
played chess and collected Japanese sword handles (tsuka).
The item on ‘Homosexuality’ in Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen’s
generally reliable Encyclopedia of Espionage (1998) names just nine
homosexual men and one bisexual:
Alfred Redl, Guy Burgess, the
bisexual Donald Maclean,
Anthony Blunt,
Alan Turing,
James A. Mintkenbaugh, William Martin,
Bernon Mitchell,
John Vassall and
Maurice Oldfield. The lovers
William Martin and Bernon Mitchell defected to the USSR in 1960 because they
disapproved of the intelligence-gathering methods of the US National
Security Agency, by which they were employed.
Bill Martin And Bernon Mitchell
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