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... are therefore eagerly sought after as evidence of Hollis' supposed treason. Such a little nugget landed in West's lap. In the summer of 1963 Cockburn took up an offer from Richard Ingram to edit a special edition of Private Eye. It was the height of the Profumo Affair which, coinciding with Cockburn's decision to put greater emphasis on politics in the satirical magazine, propelled Private Eye into mass circulation and national prominence. The format has stayed pretty much the same for the last twenty-seven years. Alan Brien, who worked with Cockburn ...
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... and sixties, and two men in regulation dark suits from an undisclosed department of the Security Services. They had been contacts for the deceased, Maria Novotny, who made headlines in the sixties through her 'relationship' with President John Kennedy, and her involvement in the Profumo affair. Novotny's own accounts of the two episodes have tended to be dismissed, and reasonably so, as they appeared in the sensationalist press. (1) But one man, Michael Eddowes, took her very seriously indeed, claiming to have spent over $ ...
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... STAND READY ASSIST IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE ON INVESTIGATIONS HERE. What were the 'similar phone calls of strangely coincidental nature persons received in this country over past year, particularly in connection with Dr Ward case'? We know of the call in the Stephen Ward/John Profumo case that kick-started its public exposure,(2) but were there others, and what were the calls not connected with that scandal about? Of these we know nothing. I did some desultory research into the Cambridge call back around 1980 and spoke to a ...
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... the arrival of Mao was the equivalent of Russia's winning China chimed exactly with Burgess's line, that Mao was the leader of a Russian-style Communism on a strict Leninist analysis, only carrying it one stage further.' (p. 214) In the section on the Profumo Affair, West states: '[ Stephen] Ward was being used by MI5 but, more importantly, the fact that he was introduced to Ivanov in the way that he was establishes that if Hollis arranged it then he did not tell his junior officers in ...
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... in the ensuing five years'. Steve Dorril adds: There is one little gem in Wright's book which is worth noting. On p. 93 Wright reveals that the Director-General of MI5, Sir Roger Hollis, deliberately destroyed a document before the Denning Inquiry into the Profumo Affair. This showed that Hollis had tried, via the Cabinet Secretary, to enlist John Profumo's help in an entrapment operation of the Soviet diplomat, Eugene Ivanov, in July 1961. Tony Summers and I speculated that this was the case in Honeytrap but had ...
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... , after circa 1976, he was making huge amounts of commission brokering arms deals. But, on the other hand, the Tory MP- public schoolboy- sexual deviant/fetishist figure is scarcely fresh news. Didn't we hear all about this around the time of Profumo? The authors make a big noise about the general immorality of the arms trade and arms manufacturers. What they don't probe, in any great depth, are Aitken's unorthodox political connections. He was co-director, with Gerald James, of BMARC (the shippers of ...
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7. Re: [Issue 48 - 2004/5]
... as 'army officer') and Stephen Ward ('osteopath and scapegoat'). The entry for the latter is one of the few where the author eschews the studied objectivity of the majority of the work, his final paragraph reading: 'Ward was in fact incidental to the Profumo episode: he was a sacrificial offering. The exorcism of scandal in high places required the façade of his conviction on vice charges.' The entries are scrupulously researched judging by the wealth of references on offer in the footnotes. These cover not simply books and ...
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... painter Hal Woolf (who did know Harris) who himself died in very mysterious circumstances on 23 November 1962 (On which see Private Eye 9 August 1963). The case became a cause celebre and remains unsolved. Interest was heightened because Woolf had connections to the Profumo Affair and because his wife had been a friend of Guy Burgess. Daily Express 7 December 1986 Molehunt: the full story of the Soviet spy in MI5, Nigel West (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1987) p 85. Through his solicitors Rothschild did issue ...
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... when he knocked on the door of an apartment owned by one of Shaw's boyfriends: it was opened by a fellow named Robin Drury. Drury, a homosexual, had been the 'agent' of Christine Keeler during the time of the British sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair in 1963. Like Eddowes I had often wondered whether Shaw knew Stephen Ward, the osteopath at the centre of the affair. This discovery inches the contention forward. Stephen Dorril is the other pioneer of UK Shaw studies (and co-author, with Anthony Summers ...
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... systematic destruction of Philip Knightley's version of the Penkovsky/Wynne episode in Knightley's book The Second Oldest Profession (Andre Deutsch 1986 see pp.313-25), which Brook-Shepherd says 'averages two factual errors per page.' (p.284) After the legal problems with his book on the Profumo Affair and the disastrous appearance on the LWT programme on the trial of Hollis, Knightley's reputation is at an all time low. West's version of Wynne is to be found in his book The Friends (Weidenfeld& Nicolson 1988). (See pp.123-131) The ...
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