THE SECRET NETWORK
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...To the neighbor he must surely be known...
...inform him of the break in my instructions...
...Gouzenko told us:— ". . . They (the Soviet Government) were trying to establish » Fifth Column in Canada...
...System ThERe can be little doubt that the N.K.V.D., previously called the O.G.P.U., and which is the secret political police of the Soviet Union, have a powerful organization in Canada...
...Then there was another rase when two members of the Commercial Counsellor's Office went to the Canadian Patent Office and asked for information almut the secret invention of radar...
...Pavlov sought to approach Sum Carr for his N.K.V.D...
...When Gouzenko came to Canada in June, 1943...
...In June, 1943, the" latter handed Over to Sokolov and the espionage organization to ¦Zabotin...
...On the 22nd uS the same month The Dirertvi replied: To Grant: I. Viiur 213...
...Warn Alek that .he should have no conversation* whatever with him about our work...
...The basic fads relating to Sokolov's group are set Out in notes made by Colonel Zabotin himself when he took over Sokolov's organization in June, 1943...
...network, but Moscow said:—"Don't touch Sam Carr...
...The materials must not be kept with >ou even for a single night...
...Gouzenko has also revealed to us, that in Colonel Zabotin's house, 14 Range Road, Ottawa, complete " photographic equipment was installed for the purpose of photographing documents for Moscow...
...in this work in Ottawa Zabotin was using doth Ham Vnrr and Feed Rose for his "military" espionage net...
...What transpired is only a modest or small part of all that is really here...
...The liagca which relate to Sokolov's organisation were torn out by Zabotin himself from his notebook, and were given by him to Gouzenko to destroy by burning In the incinerator...
...But later Zabotin was Instructed to discuss the question of transfer with The, Neighbor...
...if mil...
...The last telegram asked about the mobilization of resources in Canada...
...Major Sokolov, on his arrival in Ottawa in 1!*42, began to reform the previous organization, and was directed by "Molier," who has" been identified as one . Mikhailov, an official of the Soviet Consulate in New York who came to Canada for that purpose...
...One result of the irritation evidenced by Zabotin toward Pavlov, in his telegrams on the incident outlined above, was the receipt of simultaneous instructions by Zabotin and Pavlov from Military Intelligence Headquarters and N.K.V.D...
...Headquarters, respectively, that all disputes must be settled, and that there should be no more quarrelling between the various systems operating in Canada...
...lie directed the operations from his residence at 14 Range Road, Ottawa, and he had under him for espionage purposes a considerable Russian staff, which increased steadily...
...All the materials and documents to be passed by Bagley, Bacon and Badeau have to be signed by their nicknames as stated above...
...Continued nest week...
...To this telegram The Director replied that it would be preferable to wait, -as this agent might prove to be useful to Zabotin's network...
...jouzenko said:— "Then according to conversations between Sokolov and Zabotin 1 think they suspected that there existed a parallel military intelligence system, parallel to Zabotin's...
...fin/ is Fred Rose...
...He says: — . . . The poNsibility is not excluded that he may have already tied up with the Neighbor...
...You may have discovered fifteen men but it still leaves in Canada this dangerous situation because there are other societies and other people working under every Embassy, under every Consul in each place where there is a Consulate...
...iy mentioned by its cover-name The Si if)I' bur...
...directed by Pavlov (A Second Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa), with which we deal below...
...oi tmitint is the cover-name used to refer to a member of any Comniunist Party outside the Soviet Union...
...Their wives must not know that you work with and meet their husbands...
...Grant i In other words, it was considered that the sums being ¦pent for Colonel Zabotin'a purposes, would not attract ¦ attention so long as legitimate heavy expenditures were being .made, but might become noticeable by reason of their size after the legitimate heavy expenditures had ceased...
...Gouzenko testified that it was only, as it were, by accident that Zabotin learned of its existence in Canada, although Zabotin and his immediate colleagues had always been quite aware of the existence of some of the other parallel networks operating in Canada • including that of the N.K.V.D...
...Intelligence tries to put more of their own men...
...The materials from them must be received the same day on which you must meet me in the evening...
...Alih- is Professor May...
...The Corporation is a cover-name used to refer to any Communist Party outside the Soviet Union...
...The N.K.V.D...
...Zabotin became very angry and he wrote a big telegram to Moscow...
...There are parallel systems of spies or potential agents...
...When Moscow asked Zabotin If he knew a certain "Norman" he answered thai he did not...
...At present the sums sent by yon would not attract attention as we are carrying out repairs, are buying a car and there are . people coming etc* In the future this will be noticeC aWe...
...I consider it necessary to warn the Neighbor...
...They spoke bad English and the Canadian authorities thought that they were German agents and called the police...
...In another telegram sent by Colonel Zabotin to Moscow we And with reference to an agent:— I think it is better to get rid of him, «t In give' him to the Neighbor...
...Two of the most active persons in this organization were Fred Rose, born Rosenberg, in Lublin, Poland, and Sam Carr, born Kogen or Cohen in Tomachpol, Russian Ukraine...
...his own handwriting in his private notebook and these notes were obviously added to from time to time...
...We have here no compromising data iinain»t trail, net (reheless the fact "that he has in his hands » letter of recommendation from a corporant «ho was arrested in England (which he did not take care to destroy) compels us In refill* to have any contact with him whatsoever, the more mi that many already call him a "Ked...
...Correspondingly, investigation by the Canadian authorities is rendered more difficult...
...Warn them to be careful...
...and that these parallel systems, had and may still have their own under-cover agents operating in Canada...
...we work ,wlth him...
...Bagley must not take place indoors, but on the street and, moreover, separately with each one and once a month...
...On anothYr exhibit we find the following note: — Fred—director of corporation...
...Zabotin...
...he arrived with Colonel Zabotin who had the official title of "Military Attache...
...It seems, however, that several parallel under-cover systems, or networks, existed in Canada under the direction of members of the Soviet Embassy but independent and distinct from Zabotin's (Red Army Intelligence) organization...
...Zabotin's, Gouzenko said that such rase* of friction—often arising through efforts to "develop" the same agent—were not uncommon In other countries also, as he had learned during his year at Red Army Intelligence-Headquarters In Moscow...
...Gouzenko testified that there was a five-man committee in Moscow which passes on Soviet officials who are being sent to foreign countries...
...In various written instructions to agents we find the following...
...In a telegram sent by Colonel Zabotin, whose rovername was (trout, to Moscow on the 9th of August, I94.r>, Colonel Zabotin expresses fears as to the advisability of employing one Norman Veall as an agent to work for him...
...early as 1924, there was an organization at work in Canada directed from Russia and operating with Communist sympathizers in Canada...
...This committee consists of representatives of the N.K.V.D., the Military Intelligence, the Naval Service, the Commercial Service and the Diplomatic Service...
...Gouzenko said: — ". . . and each of them send their own men and they try to put on more of their own men...
...They wanted to know everything possible about everything concerned in Canada...
...With them was Major Romanov, Zabotin's secretary...
...Previously worked at the Neighbors, up to 1924...
...Of course this was mentioned to Sokolov and Sokolov Immediately told it to Zabotin...
...From the time of ¦the Jatters arrival until Zabotin came as "Military Attache, Sokolov reported to and took his instructions from Koudriavtzev...
...work...
...Any meeting with Bacon, Badeau...
...This method of maintaining several distinct networks has obvious advantages from a security point of view for those operating them, as no one person, even among the directing Soviet personnel, would know the names of the Canadians acting as agents in more than one of the networks...
...When Colonel Zabotin arrived In Ottawa, lie Immediately began to' expand this organization, a process that continued until his departure in December, 1946, fora visit to Moscow from which he does not-appear -ta have returned...
...They wanted to know the natural resources that Canada could mobilize in case af war, her coal, oil, rare metals and so on...
...This system was apparently also directed by the Red Army Intelligence Headquarters in Moscow, but not through Col...
...So far as the evidence discloses, the first head of the Military Intelligence espionage system in Canada after the arrival of the Soviet Minister was Sergei N. Koudriavtzev, whose official title was First Secretary of the Legation (later Embassy...
...We have endeavored to obtain from Gouzenko all the information he could give us about the "various circles" or "Parallel systems...
...It is just like a number of small circles...
...Commercial Service tries to put on more than the Diplomatic, and so on with the other representatives...
...Sam Carr, speaking Russian perfectly, went to Russia...
...This organization, being the one for which Gouzenko was the cipher clerk, is the only one of the espionage systems which we have been able to investigate in detail, because it waa in that branch of the Embassy only that Gouzenko had access to the documents...
...Major Sokolov, whose cover-name was "Davie," came to Canada before the opening of a Soviet diplomatic mission here, ostensibly as a Soviet inspector to work in Canadian factories in connection with the Canadian Mutual Aid Program to the U.S.S.R...
...they asked Pavlov about the man they had In mind, and Pavlov Mild:—"Don't touch Norman...
...Zabotin did not come here to inaugurate a system of espionage, but to continue ami amplify the work of his predecessors...
...Then Motlnov aniLZabotln thought they had identified him...
...While in Russia he took a course at the "Lenin Institute" where the matters taught included political subjects, and also practical subjects such as the organization of political movements, fomentation or extention or prolongation of strikes for ulterior purposes, sabotage methods, espionage, and barricade fighting...
...I beg you to instruct each man separately about conspiracy in our work...
...They were held and they were^checked up and then released...
...Then followed an exchange of telegrams between Zabotin and The Director In Moscbw, from., which Zabotin understood that there was in operation in ('a'nadu a parallel network tn his own, but which like his own was directed by the Military Intelligence Headquarters, in Moscow...
...In the documents exchanged between Zabotin and Tin Director of the Military Intelligence Service in Moscow, which have been produced before us, the N.K.V.D...
...He said that the Neighbor should not work with such hooligan methods...
...There had been several prevous instances of friction between the parallel systems and particularly between Pavlov's network and Col...
...The Information which Zabotin obtained from Sokolov was noted by the former in...
...The students received a very good education as "agents conspirators...
Vol. 30 • January 1947 • No. 4
