ABSTRACT
These hearings in some ways merely continued the work begun by Foster, Hibbs and Hudson two and a half weeks earlier. However, the evidence which Ervin Arnold and his operators had collected would now be used against individual sailors summoned before the court, charged, confined, and arrested. The same testimony ultimately convicted many of crimes sufficiently serious to earn them long prison terms. And the apparent success of this initial prosecution justified the extension of anti-gay sleuthing to civilians and earned it the endorsement of the Navy Department in Washington.
