Roger Hollis in 1956 and remaining in that post until his retirement in 1965. After Kim Philby's flight from Beirut to Moscow in 1963, rumours began to circulate that Hollis had alerted him to his impending arrest. Hollis was criticised for not alerting John Profumo, the War Secretary in Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, that he might have become entangled with a Soviet spy ring through his friendship with Stephen Ward, and his affair with showgirl Christine Keeler, who was introduced by Ward to Profumo. Soviet Naval Attache Eugene Ivanov was also involved with Keeler at this time, in the early
The Christine Keeler Story filmic equivalent to a sex comic." In 1971 the film screened in London at the New Cinema Club by Derek Hill as an act of defiance against the censor. Derek Malcolm of "The Guardian" said "it was scarcely worth seeing even as a curiosity, a fact that Mr Hill openly admits". The Christine Keeler Story The Christine Keeler Story is a 1963 film about the Profumo Affair. The film was also known as The Keeler Affair. The film was shot in Denmark over six weeks. Keeler took a photo to promote the film. It was taken by Lewis Morley on