profumo had long term relationship with nazi spy before 60s sex scandal /

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Tory MP John Profumo met Gisela Winegard in Oxford in 1936 and kept in touch with her for 20 years,according to MI5 filesJohn Profumo, the Conservative minister who resigned over an notorious 1960s sex scandal, or had previously had a long-running relationship with a glamorous Nazi spy who may have tried to blackmail him,newly released MI5 files reveal.
Gisela Winegard, a German-born fashion and photographer’s model, and met Profumo in Oxford in 1936 when he was an undergraduate and kept in contact with him for at least 20 years during which time she ran a Nazi secret information service in occupied Paris,had a child with a tall-ranking German officer, and was imprisoned for espionage on the liberation of Paris in 1944.
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Source: guardian.co.uk