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Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a look at the Profumo Affair, a British sex scandal that involved serious allegations of Soviet spying but also shook at the very foundations of the British class structure. Ghosts of Cold War Berlin: https://youtu.be/52bC38bm6rk America's Bioweapons pt 2: https://youtu.be/0yEVIRy23H4 America's Bioweapons pt 1: https://youtu.be/12WyLu6WuBs The CIA's Poisoner-in-Chief: https://youtu.be/6zRat81cDrg The Soviet Economy: Brezhnev, Oil, & Stagnation: https://youtu.be/NUUZCD_XfjI The Soviet Economy: Revolution to Khrushchev: https://youtu.be/2arxTSPhr6g How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE How Khrushchev Housed Everyone: https://youtu.be/lazVrmC7IVQ Soviet Tourism: https://youtu.be/t9KrH-xG20Q Soviet Passport System: New Serfdom or Reform?: https://youtu.be/Dgr9F3WFsbo Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA Communist Girl Scouts of America: https://youtu.be/QvgEHc0iyoQ ASALA, Armenia Secret Army: https://youtu.be/DFzIVfTNjH0 Amchitka Island Nuclear Test: https://youtu.be/Z89YnSS5RQA Soviet Criminal Underworld: https://youtu.be/zEJrivfLKGc Project Iceworm: Nukes Under the Ice: https://youtu.be/ePT8gp0LKsk Haiti and the Dominican Republic: https://youtu.be/apgYxvtDFQY Red Army Faction: https://youtu.be/wgYfTQJYCkI ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History #ModernHistory #Profumo #ProfumoAffair #Scandal #Keeler #Ricedavies #Macmillan #England #UK #UnitedKingdom #Parliament **SOURCES** Frank Mort, “Scandalous Events: Metropolitan Culture and Moral Change in Post-Second World War London,” Representations 93, no. 1 (2006): 106–137. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rep.2006.93.1.106 Graham Fuller, “Britain’s Big ‘Scandal’: Undercovers,” Film Comment 25, no. 2 (1989): 56–62. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43458445 Lord Denning, Report of the Tribunal Appointed to Inquire into the Circumstances Leading to the Resignation of the Former Secretary of State for War, Mr. J. D. Profumo (1963). https://archive.org/details/op1263reportoftribunalappointedtoinquireintocircumstancesleadingtoresignatio John Profumo statement to the House of Commons, Hansard, March 21, 1963. https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1963-03-21/debates/2f6d2a31-6c42-4f08-bd93-b9e6e5f5d2f0/PersonalStatement British Library, “The Profumo Affair.” https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/the-profumo-affair History Hit, “The Scandal That Rocked the British Establishment: Facts About the Profumo Affair.” https://www.historyhit.com/the-scandal-that-rocked-the-british-establishment-facts-about-the-profumo-affair/ Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Profumo Affair.” https://www.britannica.com/event/Profumo-affair BBC News, “The Profumo Affair: 50 Years On.” https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-22858394 Richard Davenport-Hines, An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo. London: HarperPress, 2013. Christine Keeler, The Truth at Last: My Story. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 2001. Mandy Rice-Davies, Mandy. London: Panther Books, 1980. Stephen Ward trial records, The National Archives (UK). https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ Rebecca West, “The Trial of Stephen Ward,” contemporary reporting collected in various newspaper archives. Shelley Ross, Fall From Grace: Sex, Scandal, and Corruption in American Politics, 1702–1987. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988.