Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Scandal of and Lord Denning's Report 1963 by Tim Coates . The Profumo affair was a political scandal surrounding the British Army Minister John Profumo in 1962/63. contents. overview. Profumo was a member of the Conservative Party and from 1960 to 1963 Minister of War under Harold Macmillan . He was married to actress Valerie Hobson . The scandal is based on his affair with the mannequin Christine Keeler . Profumo met her in 1961 in Cliveden on a pool party that from the fashionable osteopath in the home of Lord Astor in Buckinghamshire was given. Ward had raised a kind of prostitution ring with Keeler and her friend Mandy Rice-Davies . The affair between Profumo and Keeler lasted only a few weeks before Profumo ended it. Rumors of the affair became public in 1962 when it became known that Keeler had another relationship with Yevgeny "Eugene" Ivanov , the naval attaché of the Soviet embassy. Rumors arose that Keeler had spied on the minister on behalf of the Soviet Union. She herself denied this. In March 1963, Profumo declared in the House of Commons that there was "nothing in any way improper" about the relationship with Keeler. He announced libel suits if scandalous allegations were made against him or repeated outside the House. Profumo confessed in June that he had deceived Parliament and resigned on June 5th. The government received an official report from Lord Alfred Denning on September 25, 1963 , according to which there was no Soviet espionage assignment to Keeler and Profumo had not revealed any secrets. Ward was charged with living from immoral income (see pimping ) and attempted suicide on July 30th , of which he died on August 3rd. Keeler was convicted of perjury and sentenced to nine months in prison. The affair also strained Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's tenure . Macmillan resigned after an illness and an operation in October 1963 as a result of the scandal (see also British general election ). He was succeeded by Sir Alec Douglas-Home . Precipitation in popular culture. As early as 1963, the English actress Joyce Blair, under the pseudonym Miss X, had a notable success in England with the satirical song My name is Christine, which contains clear allusions to the affair. In the by-election that became necessary as a result of Profumo's resignation , the rock musician Screaming Lord Sutch stood for the first time as a candidate, who later ran for a seat in parliament with satirical election campaigns and absurd demands until his death. Mandy Rice-Davies later appeared on Sutch's pirate radio station Radio Sutch and read from the novel Lady Chatterley, which was then regarded as pornographic . Some of the aspects of the Profumo affair were portrayed in the 1989 film Scandal . Dominant characters are John Hurt as Stephen Ward and Joanne Whalley as Christine Keeler. The role of John Profumo, who has a supporting role in the film, took over Ian McKellen . In addition, the Profumo affair is one of the events mentioned in the song We Didn't Start the Fire by singer and songwriter Billy Joel . In the song Post World War Two Blues by Al Stewart is Christine Keeler mentioned. In 2007 London's Greenwich Theater performed the musical A Model Girl , which portrayed the events of the affair from Keeler's perspective. 2013 was the musical Stephen Ward by Andrew Lloyd Webber in London's West End premiere. The events surrounding the Profumo affair were the main subject of the last episode of the second season of the British television series The Crown in 2017 . The Scandal of Christine Keeler and John Profumo: Lord Denning's Report 1963 by Tim Coates. Model (2-Feb-1942 — 4-Dec-2017) SUBJECT OF BOOKS. Tim Coates (editor) . The Scandal of Christine Keeler and John Profumo: Lord Denning's Report, 1963 . London: Stationery Office Books. 2001 . 208pp. Christine Keeler; with Douglas Thompson . The Truth At Last: My Story . London: Sidgwick & Jackson. 2001 . 279pp. AUTHORITIES. Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual. The Scandal of Christine Keeler and John Profumo: Lord Denning's Report 1963 by Tim Coates. Dénécé, Eric. Renseignement et contre-espionage: actions clandestines, technologies, services secrets . Paris: Hachette, 2008. Kahn , Intelligencer 17.1 (Winter-Spring 2009), says that the author "competently surveys the field," offering some historical, geographical, and analytical chapters. [Overviews/Gen/00s] Denécé, Eric. "The Revolution in Intelligence Affairs: 1989-2003." International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 27, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 27-41. The "'intelligence revolution' resulted from a combination of changes in international politics, information technologies, and socio-political context." [Overviews/Gen/10s] Denécé, Eric, and Gérald Arboit. "Intelligence Studies in France." International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 23, no. 4 (Winter 2010-2011): 725-747. "In less than two decades, French Intelligence Studies has undergone a major transformation. [D]espite the traditional lack of interest of political leaders in the subject, Intelligence has achieved a level of recognition that it hitherto lacked. But talk of the emergence of a 'French School' of Intelligence . is premature. The renewed interest in Intelligence as a subject of research may yet be only a passing fad." [France/10s; RefMats/Teaching] Dengler, Dieter. Escape from Laos . San Rafael, CA: Presidio, 1979. [ Petersen ] Denham, Henry. Inside the Nazi Ring: A Naval Attache in Sweden, 1940-1945 . London: Murray, 1984. Foot , I&NS 2.1, finds that Denham "gives an admirable account of what a wartime naval attache's life is actually like" and "explains how the Admiralty became aware of Bismarck 's sortie in May 1941." [UK/Memoirs/WWII] Denkler, John M. "Tannenberg." Cryptolog 15, no. 1 (Jan. 1994): 3, 17-18. 'Radio intercept' played a key role in a military engagement whose outcome may have had a . profound effect on the course of world history." See also, Richard N. Armstrong , "Tactical Triumph at Tannenberg," Military History 14, no. 3 (Aug. 1997): 58-64, 80; and Wilhelm F. Flicke , "The Early Development of Communications Intelligence," Studies in Intelligence 3, no. 1 (Winter 1959): 99-114. [Germany/WWI] Denning, Alfred Thompson [Baron] The Circumstances Leading to the Resignation of the Former Secretary of State for War, Mr. J.D. Profumo . London: HMSO, 1963. The Profumo-Christine Keeler Affair: Lord Denning's Report . New York: Marc, 1962. John Profumo & Christine Keeler, 1963 . London: The Stationery Office, 1999. The Scandal of Christine Keeler and John Profumo: Lord Denning's Report, 1963 . London: Tim Coates, 2003. This is the official report on the British spy scandal of the early 1960s. Denning, Dorothy E. Information Warfare and Security . New York: ACM Press, 1999. Kruh , Cryptologia 23.3, calls Denning's work "a comprehensive overview of the wide range of activities that comprise information warfare." The book "provides the[] background needed to make informed judgements about potential threats or the defenses against them." Dennis, Mike. The Stasi: Myth and Reality . London: Pearson Education Ltd., 2003. Peake , Studies 47.4 (2003), finds that the author provides considerable detail "about the Stasi case officers, their recruitment techniques, and the types of sources they cultivated. The Stasi myth was the belief that its efficiency could overcome communist inefficiency; the reality was that it could not." [Germany/East] De Noya, Mary. "Washington's Secret Army." Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine 116, no. 2 (1982): 102-105. Denson, Bryan. The Spy's Son: The True Story of the Highest-Ranking CIA Officer Ever Convicted of Espionage and the Son He Trained to Spy for Russia . New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015. Kelly , Washington Post , 12 Jun. 2015, finds that the author "tackles the story" of Harold Nicholson and his son Nathan "with zest. Denson spent about 200 hours interviewing Nathan. He uses that access to paint a sympathetic portrait of how the 22-year-old was drawn into his father's web. We glimpse an accomplice willing to do anything to please his father and who remained remarkably unsophisticated even as his involvement escalated." [SpyCases/U.S./Nicholson] Denton, Sally, and Roger Morris. "The Crimes of Mena." http://www.magnet.ch/serendipity/ cia/c_o_mena.html [link not active] ("from the July 1995 issue of Penthouse Magazine"). The authors claim to have "documents" from the period 1981 to 1986 (when Barry Seal was killed), showing that everyone from Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton to the "mainstream media" (by which I assume the authors mean those media that wouldn't publish their article) to the paper boy was either involved in or is covering up "the crimes of Mena." [CIA/Accusations] Denyer, Simon. "Egypt's Former Spy Chief Omar Suleiman, 76, Dies in Cleveland." Washington Post , 19 Jul. 2012. [ http://www.washingtonpost.com ] According to the Egyptian government, former head of Egypt's national security intelligence agency Omar Suleiman, a trusted adviser of ousted president Hosni Mubarak and a key CIA partner in the Middle East, died" on 19 July 2011 at the Cleveland Clinic. [OtherCountries/Egypt] Spy Cases. Turchetti, Simone. "Atomic Secrets and Governmental Lies: Nuclear Science, Politics and Security in the Pontecorvo Case." British Journal for the History of Science 36, no. 4: (2003), 389-415. 2. Geoffrey Prime. Cole, D. J. Geoffrey Prime: The Imperfect Spy . London: Robert Hale, 1998. Northcott , I&NS 14.1, notes that Cole is the Detective Chief Superintendent who led the inquiry into Prime's activities. Consequently, the author's book "contains much useful information and many unique insights from his interviews with Prime." In addition, Cole "writes with an easy-flowing, almost conversational, and highly readable style." Nevertheless, this is a personal memoir "not a scholarly work," and does not have the trappings of the latter. Economist . Editors. "The Treason of Geoffrey Prime." 13 Nov. 1992, 63- 64. Prime, Rhona. Time of Trial . London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1984. [ Chambers ] The author is Geoffrey Prime's wife. Smith, Michael. "NATO Blinded by UK Cold War Traitor." Sunday Times (London), 24 May 2009. [ http://www.timesonline.co.uk ] A new book, The Secret Sentry by Matthew Aid, to be published next week, "reveals that the information handed over" by Geoffrey Prime told the Russians "that Britain and America had cracked high-grade Soviet military codes. The revelation led to Moscow changing its encryption methods, leaving western intelligence in the dark for almost a decade afterwards." 3. Profumo Case. Davenport-Hines, Richard. An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo . London: HarperPress, 2013. Preston , Telegraph (London), 8 Jan. 2013, finds that the author "is an incisive writer with a terrific eye for detail. He's particularly good, too, on his subjects' contradictions. However, his determination to root the scandal in context means that the background almost outweighs the foreground." Nevertheless, Davenport-Hines provides " an intriguing -- and appalling -- sense of the layers of hypocrisy that the affair was draped in." Denning, Alfred Thompson [Baron] The Circumstances Leading to the Resignation of the Former Secretary of State for War, Mr. J.D. Profumo . London: HMSO, 1963. The Profumo-Christine Keeler Affair: Lord Denning's Report . New York: Marc, 1962. John Profumo & Christine Keeler, 1963 . London: The Stationery Office, 1999. The Scandal of Christine Keeler and John Profumo: Lord Denning's Report, 1963 . London: Tim Coates, 2003. Irving, Clive, et al. Anatomy of a Scandal: A Study of the Profumo Affair . New York: Mill, 1963. [ Wilcox ] Ivanov, Yevgeny, and Gennady Sokolov. Foreword, Christine Keeler. The Naked Spy . London: Blake, 1992. 1994. [pb] From publisher : "The story of the Profumo scandal, written by the Russian spy who was involved in it." Keeler, Christine. Christine Keeler: The Truth at Last . London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 2001. From publisher : "Christine Keeler was the woman at the centre of the Profumo scandal in the 1960s, which led to the downfall of Harold Macmillan's government." Kennedy, Ludovic. The Trial of Stephen Ward . London: Gollancz, 1964. [ Chambers ] Knightley, Phillip, and Caroline Kennedy. An Affair of State: The Profumo Case and the Framing of Stephen Ward . New York: Atheneum, 1987. Profumo, David . Bringing the House Down: A Family Memoir . London: John Murray, 2006. The author is John Profumo's son. Rice-Davies, Mandy. Mandy . London: Joseph, 1980. Summers, Anthony, and Stephen Darril. Honey Trap: The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. Honey Trap: The Scandal, Now the Explosive Movie . Philadelphia, PA: Coronet, 1989. [pb] 4. Third Wartime Spy at GCHQ. Smith, Michael. "Enigma of KGB's Third Man at Bletchley Park." Telegraph (London), 26 Jun. 1997. [ http://www.telegraph.co.uk ] According to documents uncovered at the Public Record Office, "Bletchley Park . was infiltrated by a previously unsuspected third agent run by Moscow. Two KGB agents were previously known to have passed 'Ultra' material, decrypted from the Nazis' Enigma cipher machine, to the Russians. "John Cairncross [codenamed Carelian], who joined the Government Code and Cipher School . in 1943[,] is acknowledged to have given the KGB large amounts of the Ultra material. The only other KGB agent known to have passed on information from Bletchley Park was Leo Long [codenamed Elli], who worked in MI14, the intelligence department that covered Germany. But decrypts of communications between Moscow Centre and the Soviet embassy in London . show that a third agent, codenamed Baron, was passing on Bletchley Park's intercepts to the Russians. The identity of the third agent at Bletchley Park remains unknown." 5. Edith Tudor-Hart. Files dealing with Edith Tudor-Hart files, "all classified as top secret, are among the latest tranche of MI5 records transferred to the National Archives at Kew." The documents show that Tudor-Hart "had been a key figure behind the Cambridge spy ring at the height of the cold war." 6. Vassall. Vassall was a British Admiralty clerk when he was recruited by the Soviets. His espionage activities were discovered in 1962, and he was tried and sentenced to prison. Vassall was released from prison in 1972, and died in London on 18 November 1996. His obituary appears in the New York Times , 6 Dec. 1996, A19 (N). Vassall, William John Christopher. Vassall: The Autobiography of a Spy . London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1975. West, Rebecca. The Vassall Affair . London: Sunday Telegraph, 1963. 6. X Group (GRU) West, Nigel [Rupert Allason]. "'Venona': The British Dimension." Intelligence and National Security 17, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 117-134. Still waiting for the full story on the Profumo affair. Martin Kettle notes that transcripts of the interviews carried out by Lord Denning during his 1963 Profumo inquiry have never been published (Profumo affair: the scandal still resonates – but we don’t know the full story yet, 4 January). As Peter Hennessy explains in his superb Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties, Denning initially claimed they had been destroyed. In fact, as Hennessy also reveals, the transcripts were preserved and are held in the Cabinet Office. Hennessy notes that “all sorts of indiscretions were made” and that Denning promised those who gave evidence before him that “such evidence was completely confidential and would not be disclosed”. Intriguingly, the Cabinet Office has not seen fit to honour his promise. It initially planned to make the transcripts public in January 2064 but, after an intervention by the Advisory Council on National Records, release was advanced to January 2048. So, Lord Denning’s promise will eventually be broken, and we might conclude that he was not entitled to make it. The Cabinet Office should release the documents now. Hennessy may have the patience to wait until 2048, but I yearn to read immediately his analysis of this final episode in the Profumo affair. Prof Tim Luckhurst Principal, South College, Durham University. Martin Kettle is certainly correct to say we don’t know the full story yet. He refers to Stephen Ward, who was put on trial, convicted and killed himself before being sentenced. The establishment was clearly damaged by the scandal and wanted a scalp and Ward was the obvious choice. There is enough reason to believe his conviction was a miscarriage of justice. We can’t find out much more as the trial judge ordered that the transcript of the trial must be kept secret for 90 years. All the evidence is that he was not guilty of living off immoral earnings, a point emphasised to me by Mandy Rice-Davies in a telephone call some years ago. Before anyone says “She would say that, wouldn’t she”, I believe she was being entirely truthful. Alf Dubs Labour, House of Lords. Read more Guardian letters – click here to visit gu.com/letters. Do you have a photo you’d like to share with Guardian readers? Click here to upload it and we’ll publish the best submissions in the letters spread of our print edition.