 Do they pose a threat to national security? This was a serious Senate investigation. They sent out questionnaires to 53 civilian departments and agencies in the government, plus all branches of the military, basically asking them how many gays and lesbians they had in their ranks. They tried to get actual names, you know, lists of names. They wanted to compile a kind of master list of homosexual employees. They also called witnesses, psychiatrists, vice squad officers, members of the military.