PROFUMO
The swinging sixties a sexpionage spy scandal took place called the Profumo Affaire unfortunately two of its players were amateurs and didn't know what the rules of the spy game were ; one was sacrificed as a scapegoat and the other Christine Keeler lived life under a long dark shadow until she died and all because they were enlisted by MI5 into taking part in a Russian honey trap for Queen and country which went dramatically wrong . Dr Steven Ward a brilliant osteopath and gifted portrait artist was demonised and double crossed to the point where he took his own life with an overdose of sleeping tablets the poison chalice , Baron Profumo who was the cause of it all retired in disgrace and worked for a charity where he was eventually was awarded an OBE to pin next to the MBE and bronze star that he'd won as a military hero in the war ; a wax statue of Ward still stands in the house of horrors at Madame Tussauds a terribly cruel homage to say he was only doing what the British secret service had asked or no doubt ordered him to do . The scandal also brought an Iron Curtain crashing down on the conservative government of Harold Macmillan . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-richardson6/message