nov 27, 1945 - Surveillance of Belvedere Hotel, Temple Square Hotel, & Deseret Gymnasium [Part 4]
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“In November 1945 Presiding Bishop LeGrand Richards launched a continued surveillance of church-owned Belvedere Hotel and Temple Square Hotel to discover the ‘evil [homosexual] practices’ of tenants."…the hierarchy [President David O. McKay, J. Reuben Clarke, Mark E. Peterson and Charles H. Olsen (Salt Lake City Chief of Police)] expanded the scope of its investigations.
“About this same time First Presidency counselor Clark asked former bishop Gordon Burt Affleck to organize a similar surveillance in the men’s steam room of the Deseret Gymnasium.”
Personal Diary shared in “The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power,” D. Michael Quinn, November 27, 1945 p. 445
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nov 27, 1945
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~ 79 years ago