United Kingdom / Ireland

Nov. 11, 1962 - LABOUT ATTACK ON GOVERNMENT - FOLLOWING SPY CASE. Labour's ''Shadow'' Defence Minister - MR. PATRICK GORDON WALKER, said in the House of Commons today that there seemed to have been a compulsion by the Admiralty to make WILLIAM: VASSAL, the spy now serving 18 years imprisonment - personal assistant to high people in that department.. Defense Minister PETER THORNEYCROFT -in his reply, angril, dismissed some of the 'wild charges' in the case. Present in the House were the First Lord of the Admiralty - LORD CARRINGTON and MR. VIOLAS GALBRAITH the Secretary of State for Scotland - in whose office - 38 year old spy VASSALL was employed.. The House heard how Vassal' - a homo sexual, had lived extravagantly above his means. KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS:- LORD CARRINGTON - First Lord of the Admiralty (Credit Image: © Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com)