Teen sex scandal minister John Profumo had seventeen-year affair with Nazi spy
SEX scandal Tory John Profumo had a long affair with a Nazi spy, newly released papers show.
He romanced Gisela Klein for at least 17 years and she may have tried to blackmail him.
Her US hubby Edward Winegard blamed their 1950 marital split on “letters from Profumo on Commons notepaper”, the documents say.
They show she gave the MP’s name as a reference when she applied for a UK visa the following year.
MI6 said it was denied as authorities feared Klein and Winegard — by then reunited — were “engaged in blackmail”.
The declassified papers, released by The National Archives, do not confirm Profumo as the target.
During the 1963 Profumo Affair that ended his career, MI6 sent MI5 a 1950 dossier on his links to Klein.
MI6 said: “It makes mention of an association which had apparently not ceased at the time of this report.”
Profumo told MI5 he met her in 1936 “and got to know her well”. In 1944 Klein, who had a child by a Nazi officer, was locked up for spying in Paris.
US Army jailer Winegard married her after getting her freed.
Profumo quit as War Secretary after it emerged lover Christine Keeler was bedding a Soviet official. He died in 2006 aged 91.
MI5 fear for Amis
AUTHOR Sir Kingsley Amis was placed under MI5 “observation” over his Left-wing views, declassified papers reveal.
The Lucky Jim writer — an Army lieutenant at the time — was monitored after VE Day in 1945, as the intelligence services shifted their attention to the Soviet Union.
He was a member of the Oxford University Communist Party, read socialist books and contacted Marxist papers.
His politics later veered further to the Right. Amis died in 1995 aged 73.