European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday june is 1963 the stars and stripes Page 3 Christine Keller scandal Recks a government Britain learns what a pretty girl can do % by not Jet my ski j London Lui d hot neg he Are rare in Britain even in july to her Friend were when Christine Keeler Snail she Rould not allow the Ink of n uni Hong suit to keep her from n swim in lord Aitor s Pool. That was two Yvars ago. The Ripples of that nude splash in the Moonlight at Cliveden have grown by a series of sensation int mighty Waves which Are dangerously forking the government of prime minister Harold Mcm Gllnn. Because of miss Keeler. N 21 year old redhead who likes to be described is n Model John pro Timo has resigned us minister of War in the Mcm Gllnn Cabinet his political career ruined by. His admission that he lied to the House of commons when he denied impropriety with her. The soviet government hastily recalled capt Eugene Ivanov assistant naval attache at the rus Sian embassy Here another of he lovers who May have been a spy. The Leader of the labor party Harold Wilson has forced a debate in the House of commons monday to determine whether there was a Security risk when a minister with Access to the highest secrets in Testate shared a mistress with a suspected agent of soviet intelligence. Fomous Paris not Stephen Ward a Welt know figure in society an Osteopath whose patients included sir win Ston Churchill j. Paul Otty Ella Beth Taylor and an artist whose litters included Prince Philip and Princess Margaret is under arrest on charges of jiving on the proceeds of West indians who claim to have been lovers of miss keel rare in jail John Edgecombe 30 for seven Yean for shooting at her and Aloysius Lucky cordon. 31. Or three years for punching and tucking her. Tens of millions of dollars have attn knocked off the value of Toto it Market shares because of the blew the e scandal has dealt to the government s chances of reelection and Many influential britons Are worried that their names Mightie disclosed by the Moat intensive investigation into the operation Poall girl rings in the Metropolis or launched by Scotland Yard which interviewed More than 200 girls and has compiled a 600-Pagi-dossier of Thill managers and la such a remarkable record for a country girl who was a indifferent Saleslady in a dress hop before she set up As a Model that it hardly seems Worth adding that miss Keeter probably har shed hot a a general election till1 i Al s administration must ill a re Ortlon before of tuber 1%4.he prime minister and hop Oil Owett a. To to to ten in wintry till1itumn on the Prospect that bet or business Rendl Plohs would give to Voles. Now. With theral Lead to Ilmond demand link his res unit 11 on Neil even his own ii orters Nln med by lir pro Timo of nor. Thl plan a in British Public is not Pamir Inry upset Liy Thi a duller aspects f he Ense. La hits always Tiit a tolerant View of the priv be lives f it Lender from King did not upend nil i time with Nell Gwynn buying her or Nitetis. To world War 1 prime min Uter Dnald Lloyd George who in keep tin Eye out for irate Iwuh a " heir for on the first 10 people interviewed n the streets of London wild the were sorry for Profumo and even sorrier that a promising career hould end Over a Girt like mis Seckeler. Two ladles anxiously in lured whether Profumo would Bedie to withstand the financial loss t his j16.100-fl-Yrnr Job. The seemed relieved to learn he is heir most of a $10 minion Fortune. But there is no doubt that in i 5 Aorta 01 Bobbt to mob to t and find out Ilo Crappy. And Mil Keeli a. Who knows Nso in Hie renin Iodell belter than to a bowl a the sunday Mirror a letter Wittlen to i Rhy the the Soinila Mirror published lie Pesature but the sequence of by bid for her i vents Whlig h promoted n pret Yyoung girl from nonentity to no. Lori Ely non or to have gone some thing like this spa Pool As lord Astor and some of a to ils guests set Oul for a is Roll. They Tut. Irrl Vett at the lining Juki tint i there site an. In her published Memoir. Mlsna Keeler says he hurriedly and inadequately tried to herself with a town As lord Amor s party in recall say word the other hand seeing her by the swim Ming Pool in the Sliver of the Moonlight clutch inn n borrowed co Tunie round herself and Teltow int. Quite b bit More him n Gueniat a stately Homo a Molly duet. Suddenly from the Gate in the Wall which surrounds Pool Christine Profumo -. Came the whoop of Man general the Brit Lii strongly Alsap to Buechter. And someone dashed in and pretended to Chase Christine. It was Jack behind him came lord and lady Astor and Profumo s wife Valerie Hobson who was a film Star her and in Hollywood before she starred on the London stage in the musical comedy the King and i. That started the Friendship of prove of his falsehood to the House commons. And they Are sensitive o possible Security breaches which the past have imperilled the vital Exchange of defense information with the United world War ii russian Isles have obtained in Britain secrets or the atom bomb from or. Alan Nunn mayor the Hydrogen bomb from or. Klaus Fuchs. Atomic submarines from workers to the undersea research base at Ortland and submarine detection by blackmailing homosexual admiralty employee William John Vassall and what makes this sorry Security record even More disturb no to Many thoughtful britons is hat in some instances the topoff that something was wrong Cam from the United to the newspaper news of the world it was America c h r i s 11 n i naval intelligence which first Ward the British to keep an Eye on Ivanov. The newspaper said the americans saw an american officer enter a West end House which was subsequently visited by Ivanov. On another occasion prof Mowas seen going into the same House the newspaper said. Security in the British secret service put both Profumo and Ivanov under surveillance. And one night according to the dully Telegraph the Security men watching the War minister ran into the detail As signed to Shadow Ivanov outside Ward s Home in Wompole Mph where miss Keeler rented a room Mandy race Davies a tall blonde Model much Given to plunging neckline sweaters and swinging hips spent a lot of Lime with he girl Friend mils Keeler and re called the farcical thing about it All was that on More than one occasions Jack Profumo left Christine at the House where she stayed Ivanov walked personal and political trag Edies to come were far from the minds of those who gathered at the Cliveden estate in Buckingham Shire that hot july night in 1961. There was a party at the stately Home of lord Astor 55, who three years ago married top Model bran Wen Pugh. And in one of the cot tages on the grounds which Ward rented miss Keeler was complain ing about the heat exact recollections of what happened that night seem to have been addled by time or the tem in Tuii i front Page lust week is Tonti it aug. Al. 1%i,.m d "1 Tarling and signed " in Ninny a n no i Tniemi its a Veirra h to inn left led the should have suffered be of he it a Ili mishap with the a Ilinor of the Sundita Mil she clearly have .hir.-h hip inter if or. I and my s jul Rudi Wen upper it in her roil Idem t Bock to Moscow my Keder Olno mentioned that she was seeing Ivanov at the same Lime. Ilus la. Which rarely makes n mistake in 1 hese matters obviously foresaw what Profumo and great Many other britons in the know did not and promptly re called in nov to Moscow. Between the i Faccombe shoot ing in december and his trial in March there was a flood of Rumor in Whitehall and a report in the Middle of february that the Secu Christine and Jack Profumo at a later party at Cliveden. Ward said the guests included Ivanov Alt this time and until some time near the end of 1961 Profumo was meeting miss Keeler. Then the affair petered out Gordon one of the West indians told a newspaper that miss Keeler had talk pro Fumo threatened to Stop teeing he unless she gave up her negro boy curious Cane of the Cabinet minister the rum inn Diplomat and the redheaded Model the went into a kind of incubation phase in which nil three Aeu Mcd to find other intercut a. Ward maintained has with Ivanov and claims that during the . Runs an confrontation Over Culm last october he was in intermediary in efforts to get the Brill no government to cull a Summit con Ference. Ward son of late Canon of Rochester Cathedral and a graduate of Klerks Volle to College of osteopathy says Ivonov broached this idea to him evidently on instructions from Moscow p a s s e re through the soviet Embaby. He said he relayed All this information to the foreign office and tom.i.-5 military intelligence. Then on dec. 14. 1062, my keel or and miss race Davies were into House at Wompole mews when Edgecombe tried to shoot his Wain. He was arrested and for the first time miss Keeler s name appeared in a National newspaper. It was not to be the last newspapers conceived the idea she must have had an interesting life and Quick Rufty services had some sort of dossier an the Case. On March 14, prosecutor Alasta Rmorton said at the old Bulley the criminal court that miss Keeler had failed to appear As a witness against Edgecombe. The nest is the Dally kit Pretist build Profumo had tendered his resignation far personal reasons but that Mac Mallun had asked him to stay column Newny from this Story was a Large picture of miss Keeler and the Story of Jer disappearance. Because of the strict British Laws on libel and invasion of privacy this was the closest the newspaper could come to inking the people involved. When Profumo arrived at his Home that night he denied he had offered to resign on March 21, rumours led to accusations in commons which the government Felt Profumo must Macmillan at his Side a visibly shaken Profumo Rose in the Louse of commons to claim the rare privilege of the he said to had been on Friendly terms with miss keel a but there was no impropriety he last saw her in december 1961. He denied he Hud anything to do with her failure to appear at old Bailey and Roundup by saying he would not hell at to sue anyone who alleged the contrary for libel and slander. Pot on f a Bock Murm Gllnn led the tories in what Are known As parliamentary cheers i chorus of heur hears and at Ted Hli our minister on Heark. By tradition personal statements Are never debated Orand even though miss occur was telling reporter in Madrid int inv and been Profumo s mistress i girl adviser of new spa per a warned Gal Psi printing her unsubstantiated word in View of the War minister s threat of Legal action. Continental magazines were Noti inhibited. On april 11 Profumo was awarded damages of s140 tag list the British distributors of the italian Magazine Tempo Illus Trato. Again written about the men Christin and 1 dozens of Oiler girls listed and models were also in. They nil and one Ming inn Zimrin u Telephone. On May 21. Ward win la news Iper thai he had Given the Home a return rerun in farts of the re Lallon Milf Between my Keeler Uirl or. Prof mtg Lirt Tut Here
