<VV> Who at GM hired the private eyes to tail Mr. Nader?

[Hugo Miller]

Was homosexuality illegal back then? Or was it State-by-State. It was 
illegal in the UK till 1968 if I recall. Poor Alan Turing, the 
code-breaker and computer genius (in fact he pretty much invented the 
modern computer) was hounded to his death by being prosecuted in nothing 
less than a witch-hunt for being homosexual. There was a burglary at his 
house, and the police discovered that he lived with another man, and 
they made a case out of it.

On 2020-03-04 22:42, wrsssatty--- via VirtualVairs wrote:
> The law librarian in GM's legal department in Detroit saw Mr. Nader
> interviewed on the CBC (remember in Detroit you can pick up Canadian
> broadcasting with just an antenna).  Something in his mannerism 
> during
> the interview lead her to suspect that he was "queer" (her own
> words).  Mr. Nader was already on GM's radar screen from the
> publication of "Unsafe at Any Speed." She used to work for a law firm
> in DC that had often hired private investigators on Long Island to 
> dig
> up dirt on the opposite side in litigation so, acting on her own, she
> hired them to do the same in regard to Mr. Nader.  I'm surprised that
> she some how had access to a budget such that she could do that.  
> Once
> the hole thing came out into the open, Senator Bobby Kennedy read 
> into
> the record on the Senate floor the laundry list of things the private
> investigators were asked to look into.  He paused with incredulity
> when he read the word; "Boys". 
> What little I know about the law librarian leads me to believe she
> lead a more interesting life than Mr. Nader.  She was unmarried, had 
> a
> female roommate, went out socially with married, male GM
> employees....  She died rather young not long thereafter.  She
> insisted, literally on her death bed, that she had acted alone. 
> ~Bill Stanley
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