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Denning went to particular pains to investigate widespread rumors about other government ministers, even tried to get corroboration from a French paper that purported to list the officials and their peccadilloes. (The French editor did not reply to Denning's request.) The judge found "a great deal of evidence...
Added Denning: "My only concern was to see whether any Minister or other person prominent in public life was present at these parties." The judge, who found that no Top Person had even attended the orgies, actually unmasked the masked man as an unimportant fellow who is "now grievously ashamed...
In the course of his investigation, Denning reports, one Cabinet minister asked him to track down "damaging rumors" naming him as the "headless man," an otherwise unidentified corespondent in the Argyll divorce case, who reportedly paid to have his face cropped from pornographic pictures introduced at the trial. The minister...
On to A.D. Thus, despite Profumo's famous fall, Denning concludes that there has been no "decline in the integrity of public life." To many critics, however, the judge's verdict on the main issue he was supposed to investigate, the security question, was far from reassuring. The...
The judge supports this decision as well as the gentlemanly tradition that British Cabinet ministers-unlike civil servants-should be exempt from surveillance save in dire national emer gencies. Concludes Denning: "It would be intolerable to us to have anything in the nature of a Gestapo or Secret Police to...