Edward Heath: Czechmate

It was a scandalous accusation, and the leading Conservative politician made clear he would be consulting his lawyers. A book by a defector from the Czechoslovak secret service was claiming that Edward Heath, who had only just been ousted as prime minister and leader of the Tories, had been the target of a homosexual blackmail plot. The defector, Josef Frolik, wrote that more than a decade previously, in the early 1960s, a colleague in London had decided that the noticeably unmarried minister was a ripe target. And so, it was said, the Heath Caper had been born.
According to Frolik, the man behind the plot was a brilliant young spy named Jan Mrazek, who specialised in targeting politicians (even becoming friendly, Frolik said, with the wife of one minister). Mrazek’s alleged plan was to exploit Heath’s well-known delight in playing the church organ.
A “handsome young organ virtuoso” named Reinberger was selected to act as the bait. Reinberger was supposedly trained in the “techniques of homosexual approach and seduction” before being sent to meet Heath in London and invite him back to Prague to play the internationally acclaimed organ at the grand baroque Church of St James. Then he would pounce, leaving Heath open to blackmail by the Czechoslovakians...

The Sunday Times.
The so-called "Heath Caper" is an old story, which first surfaced in the 70s.
Was there a fiendish blackmail plot by the far Right planning a Pinochet-style coup in Britain?
Probably not.
Josef Frolik almost certainly made it all up.
The Sunday Times concludes "there seems no evidence of a real plot."
Thanks for that.

• The Heath Caper is on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow at 11am.