Profumo affair spy dies in Moscow
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Ivanov, a naval attache and Soviet military-intelligence agent, was recalled to Moscow in 1963 after one of the biggest Cold War espionage scandals to shake the British government. He had been sleeping with Christine Keeler, who also shared her bed with the defence minister, John Profumo, who resigned.
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