Sir: Roy Roebuck's lengthy letter can be summed up in
five words: Wigg didn't tell him everything. Galling that must be, but Wigg was always secretive. However, I'm glad he asserts that Wigg didn't probe the sexual peccadilloes of politicians or anyone else. I was a political reporter in Wigg's most active days and I have a distinct memory (obviously false) that, apart from John Profumo, Wigg was closely interested in the downfall of the Tory MP, Commander Anthony Courtney, who was caught in bed with a KGB agent. Roebuck would remember Courtney well because he gained his only parliamentary success at his expense.
LETTERS
In view of Roebuck's unrivalled experi- ence in the field, I'll accept, though few others would, his further denial that Lords Wigg, Wyatt and Wakeham were failed politicians.
But when, in a typically irrelevant aside, he says that my biography of Robert Maxwell 'excited factual criticism', he should have been more careful of his own facts. I never was a member of 'Tunbridge Wells Urban District Council', if such a body ever existed. I did stand, successfully, three times in an adjacent town; my majori- ty on the third occasion was greater than Roebuck's over Courtney and, unlike him, I didn't need a Liberal to let me in.
Joe Haines 1 South Frith, London Road, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
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