United Kingdom Political Scams Between 1930-1960

1930s

• Jimmy Thomas budget leak (1936)

1940s

• Hugh Dalton budget leak (1947)
• John Belcher corruptly influenced - led to Lynskey Tribunal

1950s

• Crichel Down and the resignation of Thomas Dugdale (1954)
• Suez Crisis(1956)

1960s

• Soviet agent John Vassall working for MinisterTam Galbraith (1962)
• Profumo Affair (1963): Secretary of State for WarJohn Profumo had an affair with prostitute Christine Keeler (to whom he had been introduced by pimp and drug-dealer Stephen Ward) who was having an affair with a Soviet spy at the same time.