David Moffat Johnson and the Purge of Homosexuals from the Department of External Affairs
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper reports on an investigation into David Moffat Johnson's experience during the purge of homosexuals from the federal civil service in the late 1950s and 1960s. David Johnson served as Canada's permanent representative at the United Nations from 1951 to 1956, and was ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1956 to 1960. Other Department of External Affairs officers were affected by the purge, but little is known about the circumstances surrounding Johnson's release from the DEA. The research for this paper is based on primary sources that are no longer available from Library and Archives Canada, and on Johnson's personnel file, which is available from the LAC, but not easily findable. Documents made available through the LGBT Purge Fund in 2018 also shed light on RCMP efforts to identify homosexuals and remove them from sensitive positions. The findings reveal that senior DEA staff felt compassion towards their colleagues who were affected by the purge and resisted the efforts of the RCMP to identify and remove them.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.061 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".