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At the height of the Cold War, the affair between Secretary of State for War John Profumo and 19-year-old model Christine Keeler became a full-blown national security crisis. The two met in 1961 through a high-society osteopath named Stephen Ward. The critical danger arose because Keeler was simultaneously involved with Yevgeny Ivanov, a handsome Soviet naval attaché and known intelligence officer, creating the terrifying possibility that state secrets could be compromised.
The affair itself was scandalous, but the political crisis erupted when rumors began circulating in Parliament. In March 1963, Profumo made a formal statement to the House of Commons in which he denied any "impropriety whatever" in
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