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201:(1964) demurred from the notion that Vassall was "a weak and silly little man ... This was unlikely to be the correct view of a man who for seven years had carried on an occupation demanding unremitting industry in a skilled craft carried on in clandestine conditions, an endless capacity for dissimulation, and sustained contempt for personal danger." West termed him, rather, "a professional spy, working within the conventions of his profession, had no more been blackmailed into the exercise of his profession than any lawyer". West suggested that the claim of blackmail was "putting up a smoke-screen to conceal what he had done." Observing that Vassall had been well paid by the Soviets for his spying, West wrote: "The drunken party may have taken place, but it was probably engineered so that Vassall might refer to it should his treachery ever be discovered ... Only a very stupid and helpless man would have succumbed , and Vassall was not stupid; he was extremely resourceful." 133:, which was still illegal in both Britain and the Soviet Union. He became acquainted with a Pole named Michalski, who worked for the Embassy, and who introduced him to the homosexual underworld of Moscow. In 1954, he was invited to a party, where he was encouraged to become extremely drunk, and where he was photographed in compromising positions with several men. 29: 186:
regarded Vassall as "the classic example of the spy who, while of lowly rank, can inflict enormous damage because of the excellence of his access to secret information". Pincher continued: "I am in no doubt that the recruitment and running of Vassall was a major triumph for the KGB. He provided
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On 12 September 1962, Vassall was arrested and charged with spying. He made a full confession, and directed detectives to the cameras and films concealed in his flat. The documents that he admitted to stealing did not account for everything believed to have been taken, however, which led to
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speculation that there was another spy still operating in the Admiralty. Some have suggested that Vassall was deliberately sacrificed by the KGB in an attempt to protect the other (possibly more senior) spy. In October, Vassall was sentenced to 18 years in jail. While in
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was held to inquire into whether the failure to detect Vassall earlier amounted to a failure of intelligence, as many British newspapers had claimed. It also investigated suggestions that the close relations between Vassall and
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similarly concluded that it was Vassall's "vanity, his childish snobbery, his devouring ambition and complete lack of humour that pushed him so deep into the quagmire". Peter Martland describes the book as "self-serving".
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may also have contributed to the case against him. Vassall soon resumed his work. It had become obvious to his colleagues that Vassall had some other source of income, for he moved to an expensive flat in
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commented that "Vassall was never more than a low-level functionary, but there was nothing low-level about the damage he was able to inflict". Similarly,
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Vassall into working for them as a spy, initially in the Moscow embassy, and later in London, following his return there in June 1956. He returned to the
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to the United States in 1961. The KGB, worried that Vassall would be exposed, ordered him to cease operations until further notice. Another defector,
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had been improper. However, in its conclusions the tribunal found no evidence for impropriety, and largely exonerated the government.
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information of the highest value to the Soviet defence chiefs in their successful drive to expand and modernise the
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claiming that, courtesy of Vassall, he had evidence of "a network of homosexual politicians". The Security Service
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This article is about the British civil servant who spied for the Soviet Union. For the American Loyalist, see
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played a senior civil servant detecting sexual innuendo in such conventional pleasantries as the
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Born in 1924 and known throughout his life as John Vassall, he was the son of William Vassall,
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The Spy Who Would Be Tsar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground
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Too Secret Too Long: the great betrayal of Britain's crucial secrets and the cover-up
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In 1952, Vassall was appointed, still as a clerical officer, to the staff of the
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government considerable embarrassment, erupting as it did at the height of the
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The Spy who was left out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski
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Vassall subsequently changed his surname to Phillips, settled in
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The suggestion of an improper relationship between Vassall and
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interviewed both Vassall and Jordan and dismissed the claims.
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Colin Jordan and Britain's Neo-Nazi Movement: Hitler's Echo
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inspired a memorable sketch on the satirical BBC programme
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prisons. He was befriended in prison by social reformer
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British people convicted of spying for the Soviet Union
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government, but was soon eclipsed by the more dramatic
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as "weak, vain and keen to be thought a gentleman".
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British civil servant, spy for the USSR (1924–1996)
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Index

John Vassal Jr.

British
civil servant
Soviet Union
blackmail
Soviet Navy
Macmillan
Profumo affair
chaplain
St Bartholomew's Hospital
Monmouth School
Second World War
Royal Air Force
Admiralty
Anglican
converted
Roman Catholicism
Naval Attaché
Moscow
homosexuality
KGB
honeytrap
blackmail
Admiralty
Naval Intelligence Division
Tam Galbraith
Conservative Party
Civil Lord of the Admiralty
radar

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