Harold Wilson Accused of Working For the KGB
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Harold Wilson is a two time British Prime Minister who was in office from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976. He became the leader of the labor party after the mysterious death of Hugh Gaitskell.
Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn claimed that Wilson had ties with the KGB. The claims had convinced the MI5 that a Soviet spy had managed to attain the highest office in the country. Since Harold’s ideas were always inclined to the left, the agencies became all the more convinced that he was in fact controlled by the Russians. However, there is no concrete evidence to support these claims to this day.