[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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: ‘ Ward was being used by MI5 but, more importantly, the fact that he was introduced to Ivanov in the way that he […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of serving or former intelligence officers. We had been handed a really big story. But as it happened, another piece Steve had written in Lobster about the Profumo scandal of 1962/3, was seen by Anthony Summers who was planning to write about said scandal. And in the midst of our trying to understand Wallace’s […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] to make way for Wilson. This notion wasn’t entertained in NW1 but there was a feeling that Wilson had been suspiciously quick to take advantage of the Profumo affair. Cui bono notions were in the air. Perhaps the Soviets had arranged it for Wilson’s political benefit? If so, what did that say about Wilson? […]
