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EDITORIAL

SEAT OF POWER

BOBBY

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DAILY MIRROR, Friday, November 9, 1962

· MISS WORLD CONTEST-

How Britain

Could Have Avoided

the

Vassall Spy Case

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MISS RUSSIA

AMERKA

MISS BRITAIN

FRANCE

"ALL RIGHT, I'LL DROP OUT IF THEY'LL LET ME BE 'MISS EUROPE'!" EVENING STANDARD, Wednesday, November 7, 1962

SW.GERMANY

"INDIGNATION IS MOUNTING THROUGHOUT BRITAIN over the case of William Vassall, the Admiralty clerk who sold secrets to the Russians.” So reported the diplomatic correspondent of News of the World, in London a few weeks ago, under the heading of "The Big Spy Blunder." The report stated that serious considerations were again being given to the idea that a full-scale independent inquiry into security in the "Secret Services' Department" should be made, particularly after explanations and reassurances, given in the House of Commons by the Minister of Defense aggravated rather than dispelled anxieties in government.

Vassall was sentenced to 18 years in jail for spying. This man (his full name is William John Christopher Vassall, age 38) pleaded guilty to the offenses. They came out of passing information which might have been directly or indirectly useful to the enemy, while employed in the office of the British Naval Attache in Moscow in 1955 (six years' imprisonment); for similar offenses in 1956 and 1957 while he was acting secretary to the deputy director of Naval Intelligence in London (12 years), and for collecting information which might have been directly or indirectly useful to an enemy (12 years). The two 12-year sentences run concurrently.

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