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Pa ee Le neers Y) ‘+. + QHIRISTINE TELLS BER STORY © ~~ 60. On the very night of the shooting Christine Keeler told sonaathing of her story to Mr. Michael Eddowes, but it does not seem to have gpined publicity through him. She told it later in circles where it was soon takem up. (i) She tells i¢ to Mr. John Lewis - Cos 61. About nine days after the shooting, on 23rd December, 1962, there was a party in a girl’s flat in Rossmore Court. Christine Keeler went there with Paul Mann. John Lewis, formerly a Member of Parliament, went to the party with a friend. In the course of conversation the shooting was discussed. Stephen Ward’s name was mentioned: and at once old memories revived. John Lewis and Stephen Ward had been engaged actively in litigation in 1954 and 1955 and there was no love lost. between them. Christine Keeler said how fearful she was of being called as a witness: John Lewis said she must be represented in court and recommended her to & solicitor. He was most interested in her story and over the next two or three weeks made a’ point of seeing her and obtaining more details. She told him of her affair with Mr. Profumo and of the letters he had written to her. She also told him that Stephen .Ward asked her to obtain information from Mr. Profumo as to the date when the Americans would deliver atom bombs ta Germany. ee re _ oe 62. John Lewis was at once alive to the inrportance of the matter from the security point of view. He told Mr. George Wigg, M.P., about it. And from that time onwards he kept Mr. Wigg fully informed of every development. They had conversations almost daily. John Lewis was so interested that he, in March, 1963, got his own agent to investigate in the tee te afin lawonaling oy 2 in Ht i ° person of a journalist who speat much of his time in Stephen Ward's flat. (ii) She tells it to the Press 63. Next on the scene (they had been hovering near all the time) came the press. Christine Keeler told her story to Paul Mann. Now Paul Mann was a young man aged 26. He had been at the Cliveden week-end. He was at this time (December, 1962) in a shirt business in Manchester, but often came down to London at week-ends. He also seems to have friends in journalism. He was friendly both with Stephen Ward and Christine Keeler. Another acquaintance of Christine Keeler’s was a woman called Nina Gadd who was a free-lance journalist, It appears to have been indirectly through these two that her story achieved notice. They advised her that there were newspapers who would buy it. Only two possible buyers were mentioned to her. The News of the World and the Sunday Pictorial. She got in touch with both and tried to see who would pay her most.. oe 64. Christine played off one against the other. When the Sunday Pictorial offered her £1,000, she went straight to the News of the World amd asked them to increase it. Their representative said, “I will see you to pan oie will not join in any Dutch auction”. So the Sunday Pictorial soiieaded. On 22nd January, 1963, she went to the. office of the Sunday Pictovial and A 2}