Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party after being arrested for faking his own death.
British politician and alleged spy for the Czechoslovak SR (1925–1988)
🗓️ April 7, 1976 • 📅 ACF Date: 19760407
John Thomson Stonehouse was a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician, businessman and minister who was a member of the Cabinet under Prime Minister Harold Wilson. He is remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974. It is alleged that Stonehouse had been an agent for Czechoslovak military intelligence.
