Ken Livingstone aide Charlie Rossi sold Britain's nuclear secrets to Czech spies in Cold War

Nobody typified the 'loony Left' that infested Labour in the early 1980s quite like 'Red' Ken Livingstone. Greater London Council leader Ken Livingstone and colleagues Val Wise, Charlie Rossi, John McDonnell and Michael Ward gather outside the GLC headquarters in County Hall for the unveiling of a 75 foot long sign announcing London's unemployment figure in 1982 Behind him was the GLC's vice-chairman, Charlie Rossi, a heavily built, tousle-haired Scotsman – a largely unremarkable figure save for one fact that has remained buried until now. Cold War intelligence files uncovered in Prague by The Mail on Sunday show that Rossi was a paid agent of Czechoslovakia's brutal Communist spy agency, the StB – a traitor to his country and, it would seem, even more red than Ken. Rossi's information and status as a paid agent was also shared with Russia's KGB spy agency via their internal database, the files show. Rossi's information and status as a paid agent was also shared with Russia's KGB spy agency via their internal database, the files show In April 1984 Rossi was able to tell his handler 'about the start of construction of a new bunker for the commanders of Nato in High Wycombe'.