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Munsinger speaks!
If Lucien Cardin had kept his mouth shut on March 4, 1966, the sensational political sex scandal may have never surfaced. But, fuelled by taunts, the Liberal minister implied that a German playgirl and alleged KGB spy had relationships with top ministers in Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's government. In the frenzied atmosphere of the Cold War, Cardin's allegations sent the country into a tizzy, sparking the first political sex scandal in Canadian history.
• When DePoe brought up her alleged links to the CIA and the KGB, Munsinger flatly denied the charges. "I just have to laugh about it," she told DePoe. Pierre Sevigny
Program: CBC Television News
Broadcast Date: March 12, 1966
Guest(s): Tommy Douglas, C.M. Drury, Gordon Fairweather, Gerda Munsinger, Pierre Sévigny
Host: Knowlton Nash
Reporter: Norman DePoe
Duration: 29:20
Last updated: April 16, 2013
Page consulted on April 16, 2013
All Clips from this Topic
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Former defence minister Sévigny condemns Liberal minister Lucien Cardi...
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Despite the media frenzy, Munsinger remains silent.
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CBC reporter Norman DePoe nabs an exclusive television interview with ...
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Halton reports on the hoopla surrounding Gerda Munsinger.
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Those close to Munsinger describe the woman at the centre of the contr...
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Toronto Star reporter tracks down the blond bombshell.
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Students comment on the Munsinger affair from This Hour Has Seven Days...
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Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson names Supreme Court Justice Spence to...
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When asked to respond to the report, Sévigny attacks television crew w...
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Justice Spence releases his report (no audio).
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Munsinger rejects the findings in the report, saying she was never a s...
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With those three little words, Canada's first political sex scandal ex...
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Seven years later Sévigny continues to dismiss the Munsinger scandal a...
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Munsinger returns to Canada almost 10 years after the scandal.
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Munsinger lives the rest of her life in relative obscurity.
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If Lucien Cardin had kept his mouth shut on March 4, 1966, the sensati...