"The plan originated under strong United States advice to Britain to weed out homosexuals - as hopeless security risks - from important Government jobs.
One of the Yard's top-rankers, Commander E. A. Cole, recently spent three months in America consulting with FBI officials in putting finishing touches to the plan. But the plan was extended as a war on all vice when Sir John Nott-Bower took over as the new Commissioner at Scotland Yard in August. Sir John swore he would rip the cover off all London's filth spots....
Under laxer police methods before the US-inspired plan began, and before Sir John moved into the top job at the Yard as a man with a mission, Montagu(Baron Montagu Beaulieu) and his film-director friend Kenneth Hume might never have been charged with grave offences against Boy Scouts....
Sir John swung into action on a nationwide scale. He enlisted the support of local police throughout England to step up the number of arrests for homosexual offences.
For many years past the police had turned a blind eye to male vice. They made arrests only when definite complaints were made from innocent people, or where homosexuality had encourages other crimes.
They knew the names of thousands of perverts - many of high social position and some world famous - but they took no action. Now, meeting Sir John's demands, they are making it a priority job to increase the number of arrests....
The Special Branch began compiling a "Black Book" of known perverts in influential Government jobs after the disappearance of the diplomats Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, who were known to have pervert associates. Now comes the difficult task of side-tracking these men into less important jobs - or putting them behind bars."