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
Christine Keeler Ochs about the Profumo affair, released on his posthumous 1989 compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1". In 1994, UK indie guitar band Senseless Things released a song entitled Christine Keeler which featured on their 1995 album 'Taking Care Of Business'. On 5 December 2017, Keeler's son Seymour Platt announced that his mother "passed away last night at about 11.30 p.m." at the Princess Royal University Hospital in Locksbottom, Greater London. She had been ill for some months, suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and was aged 75. Her funeral took place on 16 December. By Christine Keeler By others Citations