In 1962, while working as a clerk in the British Embassy in Moscow, homosexual civil servant John Vassall was caught in a ‘honey trap’ sprung by the Soviet Secret Service. He was blackmailed into passing secrets to the Soviet Union and as a result sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment for espionage.
Our contemporary records specialist Mark Dunton delves deeper into this scandal - one of a series that rocked the Macmillan government in the early 1960s, feeding into a national obsession with spy culture at the time.
The scandalous case of John Vassall
The National Archives, Bessant Drive, Kew
Ad
Event has ended
This event ended on Thursday 25th of April 2019
This event ended on Thursday 25th of April 2019
Admission
£5. Book ahead.
£5. Book ahead.
Tags:
Around Town
User Reviews
There are no user reviews