Posted on 06/11/2013 10:52:19 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
...Fifty years after the Profumo affair erupted, Christine Keeler, now 71, has confessed she played a role in a high-placed spy ring...
...she says: 'However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it. The truth is that I betrayed my country.
...The scandal hit the headlines after seven shots were fired at a house in a quiet Marylebone mews by a jilted boyfriend of Keeler in December 1962.
It then emerged the then 19-year-old Keeler had been sleeping with former Secretary of State for War John Profumo, then 48, and a handsome Russian spy Yevgeny Ivanov.
...But when news of the Profumo-Keeler-Ivanov love triangle broke 18 months later, Profumo lied to the House of Commons about his affair. He was soon found out and Keeler sold her story to the News of The World for £23,000.
In June 1963, he quit in disgrace, amid allegations Keeler had been asked by Ivanov to discover from the War Minister when the West Germans might receive U.S. nuclear missiles to be stationed on their soil.
But Keeler... says the Establishment was far more interested in painting it as a sex scandal and chose to ignore claims of a widespread spying network...
...But Keeler is now convinced she unwittingly helped pass on secrets that could have ultimately harmed the country.
...According to her book, Keeler claims Ward used that first meeting to steal secret letters from Profumo's briefcase, detailing the delivery of nuclear weapons to Germany.
Her affair with Profumo began days later and she claims Ward immediately asked her to find out through pillow talk when the nuclear warheads were being moved to Germany.
...Ward committed suicide before a verdict in the case was reached. She was sentenced to six months in jail for perjury.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
References, please.
Read through the revisionist history reviews of Scandal on IMDB and you’ll find a lot of “much ado about nothing” claptrap and “freethinkers” being persecuted. Stephen Ward was a spy who pimped her out to older men and then sought classified information.
He wasn’t a “freethinker” if he was engaged in espionage for the USSR.
At least he saved the UK a bullet.
If all Christian heresies begin below the waist, so too do all spy scandals.
Still in doubt about the Kennedys having sexual relations with Miss Monroe?
She was a liability for sure but I don’t think the Kennedy’s killed her. I would bet a dollar to a donut though they did steal the diary and look for any incriminating stuff laying about, perhaps Hoover.
Kennedy’s biggest threat was that babe who was the girl friend of the Chicago mobster and go between, Exner whom I believe led a full life.
Here’s one you can dismiss as rumor, inuendo, unproven, etc.
As I say, the questions linger and have validity. The press DID cover up the Kennedy conquests (including Ted’s failings at Chappaquddick). IF they could do it to her, they COULD do it to anyone.
Judith Exner, and others.
One such liason was Mary Pinchot who confided in Timothy Leary about JFK’s drug use (not just prescription, but pot and LSD). She later was murdered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pinchot_Meyer
Judith Exner, and others.
One such liason was Mary Pinchot who confided in Timothy Leary about JFK’s drug use (not just prescription, but pot and LSD). She later was murdered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pinchot_Meyer
led to Ward’s arrest and charges for living off immoral earnings.....GEEZZZZ! We got a whole nation of those critters!!
Guilty now, not back then. Case closed. Besides, at this point what difference does it make?
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.?
You don’t get lips like that from suckin’ on doorknobs !
Guilty.....!
Not really. However, before I pass along information, I try to get documentation of some sort, if possible.
Recently, I read an article about an LA private detective whose personal effects hinted at Peter Lawford & JFK perhaps having an active part in Monroe’s “suicide”. I’ve lost that link.
It is sad that we keep electing men who will not honor the vows they gave before God, family & friends. Can they be trusted with anything?
Besides, there is ample evidence that a man unsatisfied with the wife he chose will never be satisfied though he bed “the hottest sex symbol around”.
Ivanov was supposedly a KGB spy. Wouldn't this have turned up in the early 90s when they opened those files?
The media desperately wants to believe that story, but should we believe everything we are told?
How do you know she’s not lying? I’m not sure that KGB files support her. Why don’t they ask her to take a polygraph?
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