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
Alessandro Profumo Alessandro Profumo Alessandro Profumo, current CEO of Leonardo S.p.A. (formerly Finmeccanica), is an Italian manager who had significant influence in the consolidation of the Italian banking sector. He resigned as CEO of the Unicredit Group on 21 September 2010. Alessandro Profumo was born in Genoa on 17 February 1957 as the youngest of five children. He grew up in Palermo; 1970 he moved to Milano with his parents where he went to the Liceo Manzoni and met his future wife Sabina Ratti, then his classmate. After finishing highschool, Profumo enrolled at Bocconi University. In 1977, he married Sabina, and his