My Community

In March 1963 he informed the chamber that there was "no impropriety whatever" in his relationship with Keeler. In July 1963 the federal government named Kim Philby, former Foreign Office colleague of Burgess and Maclean, as the "third man". For the reason that early 1950s, when diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean fled to their paymasters in Moscow, the chattering lessons had speculated concerning the existence of a "third man". In the deferential spirit of the 1950s, the rumours might have been restricted to salon gossip. For a lot of the 1950s, the social gathering had been convulsed by ideological wrangling, most notably over the difficulty of nuclear disarmament. The 1989 film, Scandal reignited some of the controversy, and Christine Keeler raked over the embers in her autobiography, The truth At last, printed early in 2001. In it, she revived a few of the more startling claims made on the time - though alas she was unable to offer convincing new proof to back them up. She claims for instance, that the then MI5 chief, Sir Roger Hollis, was a Soviet spy; and that Stephen Ward ran a spy ring which included Hollis and Sir Anthony Blunt, who was surveyor of the Queen's footage.