Vassall Talks On Private Life

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30044, 31 January 1963, Page 13

Vassall Talks On Private Life

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LONDON. January 38. Tte *—»ar<riswMir ■ Admh’ally rieS/WQHam JotaTv£ IpR •’ i WW-? Britiih imtototejMufc teifrM hlkMl Mg VteAteta Uta tm. IH® W ■Wt gated. his flat, Ms feraltarn, nit clothes and tai retetiowblp with the tana Civil Lord at the Admiralty (Mr Thomas Mr and Mrs Galbraith were there to hear the evidence, the “Evening News** reported. ' Vassal!. denied ' there was anything improper about tai relationship with Mr GalVassall, who had been Prison, answered miaitions put to him calmly and slowly, fee newspaper said. Weama hi Gallery Most of those in the gallery were women who craned forward to catch a glimpse of Vasaall. VamU told counsel for Mr Galbraith that at the time of tai arrest he had in his flat about I# to 20 suits, most costtag about £36 each. A man who visited his flat, whom he may have described to his housekeeper as one of his chiefs, was one of two people, but he could not remember which.

He wrote their names on a piece of paper which was handed to the tribunal

■ VfeMfell - fewM that -Mta cftUffd on Hol They tad “looked in” at Me mrir tat tatwaon twaottar mektan nurttfO te wtaflt ttag had boon griiM* . taafe "taw Vassall, who is serving aa IWijtar aenteace, told fee tribunal be waa nald .£flBM. to the London “Sunday PtetMtaP attar hie arreat test year. He had supplied the newspaper with pieturoa, papers, md other materials. fie denied a Suggestion 'feat “hist tad greed” ware fee motives feat had kopt him tiod to the Buariana. “It was a trap I could see no way of getting out of," he said. Letters he had received from Mr Galbraith had all been written in fee State sort A postcard he had sent to Mr Galbraith marked "wife memories of Italy” tad been posted in London and referred to a holiday he tad in Italy. He tad never met Mr Galbraith on holiday anywhere. In all there were only four occasions when he had met Mr Galbraith unofficially, Vassall said.

The tribunal adjourned to tomorrow when Vassall will be questioned by the Attor-ney-General