Lord Carrington, First Lord of the Admiralty

Nov. 11, 1962 - LABOUR ATTACK ON GOVERNMENT - FOLLOWING SPY CASE. Labour's Shadow Defence Minister - PATRICK GORDON WALKER, said in the House of Commons today that there seemed to have been a compulsion by the Admiralty to make WILLIAM VASSAL, the spy now serving 18 years imprisonment, personal assistant to high people in that department. Defence Minister PETER THORNEYCROFT in his reply, angrily dismissed some of the wild charges in the case. Present in the House were the First Lord of the Admiralty - LORD CARRINGTON and VIOLAS GALBRAITH the Secretary of State for Scotland - in whose office 38 year old spy VASSALL was employed. The House heard how Vassal, a homosexual, had lived extravagantly above his means. KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS:- LORD CARRINGTON - First Lord of the Admiralty

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