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Comment by AlexandrB

5 months ago

The worst for me is the John Cairncross subplot that implied Turing might have committed some (light) treason because of his homosexuality. From Wikipedia[1]:

> Turing and Cairncross worked in different areas of Bletchley Park and there is no evidence they ever met. Alex Von Tunzelmann was angered by this subplot (which suggests that Turing was for a while blackmailed into not revealing Cairncross as a spy lest his homosexuality be revealed), writing that "creative licence is one thing, but slandering a great man's reputation – while buying into the nasty 1950s prejudice that gay men automatically constituted a security risk – is quite another."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game#Personaliti...