From my new piece in the U.K. Telegraph, a look at the gay milieu of Washington as the Cold War spy games played out:
Philby and Angleton’s friendship blossomed in the spring of 1950, amid a moral panic in Washington. In a series of sensational speeches, Republican Senator Joe McCarthy had woven together the threats of communism and homosexuality into twin fervors that historians have dubbed the ‘Red Scare’ and the ‘Lavender Scare’.