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OTTAWA, Apr 15 (LSN) – A team of Laurentian Univerity researchers delivered a 220-page report to the Canadian government yesterday, demanding an apology and compensation for homosexuals who they allege were targeted in national security campaigns in the 1950s and ‘60s. The four researchers, all active homosexuals, complained that the government banned active homosexuals from the civil service and the military.  Beside the fact that homosexual acts remained a crime in Canada until 1969, the presence of homosexuals in the military and diplomatic corps posed a real threat to the country’s Cold War security. The RCMP,  for example, were concerned about an attempt by Soviet agents to blackmail a homosexual Canadian diplomat in 1958.