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Cliveden — The Spy Who Loved Me
I ran around the pool with Lord Astor, head of a distinguished family, and John Pro-
fumo, one of Super Mac's most important government ministers, chasing me.…there
was some paper-work at the house. While Bill was changing, Stephen stole some let-
ters, which he later handed over to Eugene Ivanov, his contact at the Soviet Embassy.
The letters had useful information about the Skybolt missiles…Britain's nuclear
weaponry.
— Christine Keeler, quoted in “Clouds of Scandal” (
Vanity Fair
, July 2001)
photo © David S. White
Cliveden means “dean (valley) among cliffs.” You can see the dean in question, west of the
estate, where the land drops dramatically away to the River Thames 130 feet below. But the
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