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Sep 20, 1924 Died on 18 Nov 1996 (aged 72)
British civil servant who spied for the Soviet Union
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About John Vassall
- William John Christopher Vassall (20 September 1924 – 18 November 1996) was a British civil servant who spied for the Soviet Union, allegedly under pressure of blackmail, from 1954 until his arrest in 1962.
- Although operating only at a junior level, he was able to provide details of naval technology which were crucial to the modernising of the Soviet Navy.
- He was sentenced to eighteen years' imprisonment, and was released in 1972 after ten.
- The Vassall scandal greatly embarrassed the Macmillan government, but was soon eclipsed by the more dramatic Profumo affair.
