Who are the Agents?

A WHITER SHADE OF PALE

The United States military officially desegregated in 1948, so combat-branch military Agents can be of any race. There are officially no women in combat positions: 90% of the female personnel deployed in Vietnam, for example, are nurses.
  That leaves ten percent: not just clerk-typists, but intelligence officers, electronics operators, and even trainers for South Vietnamese combat troops.
  The CIA recruits heavily from military personnel – and even from foreign nationals – so their ranks also include more Black and Hispanic operatives than the governmental norm. As early as 1953, the CIA workforce was 40% female, but only one fifth of those women were in higher-level postings. (But perhaps what seems like a go-nowhere clerical job is actually ideal cover for covert action against the unknown.)
  The FBI makes the CIA look like Woodstock: although a few Black police officers joined the Bureau (almost all before Hoover became Director), the first Black agents are only accepted to the FBI Academy in 1962. The first female FBI agents are not sworn in until 1972!
  Homosexuals will not legally receive federal security clearances until 1995, which absolutely does not mean there are no gay or lesbian members of the national security community before then. Their sexual or gender orientation is hardly the biggest secret that bisexual, gay, lesbian, or trans DELTA GREEN Agents must keep, even in the 1960s.