Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William John Christopher Vassall NPG 6552

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Cecil Beaton

Vassall was an RAF photographer during the Second World War, who in 1946, worked as a clerk in the Admiralty. In 1954 he was appointed assistant to the British naval attaché in Moscow, where he was blackmailed by the KGB for his homosexuality. On return to London in 1956 he was assigned to the Admiralty's Naval Intelligence Division. He provided the Soviets with thousands of classified documents. Promoted in 1959, he conveyed Admiralty secrets concerning radar, torpedoes, and anti-submarine devices. The defection of Golitsin in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.