Moments of History - The Scandal of Christine Keeler and John Profumo

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The Profumo Affair remains the biggest scandal ever to hit British politics. At the height of the Cold War the Minister of War was found to be having an affair with a call girl who had associations with a Russian Naval Officer. Harold Macmillan, the British Prime Minister, invited Lord Denning to examine the circumstances leading to the resignation of John Profumo and report on any danger to national security. Ther are questions of cover-up, lies told to Parliament, bribery, and stories sold to the newspapers. Lord Denning's report into the 1963 scandal describes with astonishment and fascinated revulsion the extraordinary sexual behaviour of the ruling classes - orgies, naked bathing, sado-masochistic gatherings - and addresses many of the startling rumours that were rife at the time.