"THE GOUZENKO STORY"
"THE GOUZENKO STORY" Based on Official Secret Documents WHILE Gouzenko's evidence and the documents establish the existence of the N.K.V.D, organization in Canada, we have been unable to...
...in his statement of October 10th...
...The professional is a mercenary for hire...
...The Registration Card at tho beginning of th» 194* dossier kept in the Soviet Embassy on Sam Can, National Organiser of ths Communist (.Labor-Progressive) Party of Canada, contains after ths mimeographed In accordance with military defense plsns of the Anglo-American chiefs of staff, a powerful base had been built st Churchill, on Hudson Hay...
...Examples of the latter would be the instructions to create or to get control of functional organizations such as ths "Canadian Association of Scientific Workers...
...when necessary for special purposes, to instruct certain Canadian secret Communists to take up temporarily an anti-Conw munist line...
...He was the first man to see her and he was thinking that there was another chance to get an agent Then Pavlov tried to put her in his system because the more agents they have the more praise from Moscow...
...The documents which Gousenko brought with him corroborate this testimony...
...unit in Ottawa was apparently to keep tab on the Russian members of the Embassy staffs and to report on them to the N.K.V.D...
...has been operating here...
...The N.K.V.D...
...that it had been operating much longer in Canada, and that it had several agents among members of the staff of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, and was headed by Pavlov...
...This system exists as a parallel...
...These "dossiers" could then be used to check the information obtained through other networks regarding agents whom it was proposed te employ in one of the systems engaged in espionage or other special activities...
...brothers eemmsated In their satnjasl-syndlcated colama, "vary strongly sagfeats that the Goasenko disclosures and Canadian Korsl Cess mission iaveetigstiosw have by ns> means pat an end to tho Soviet lateiHgeawe not In N*rtn America...
...system is parallel to, but entirely independent of and quite distinct from, the military espionage network...
...fanaticism for the csuse inspires his achievements...
...Whether he was Communist or snti-Communist was profoundly unimportant...
...I worked there about a year and from the telegrams I saw and from conversations I understood that that was the c6ver name for another system, a parallel system, an independent system...
...What emerges in a new clearness from Gouzenko's story are the ugly features of Behemoth, Ihe fare of (he1 Stalinist state...
...Their business is in every office, in every plant, in every regiment in the Red Army, in every office of the Red Army, in every civilian school...
...money buys him snd his information...
...The N.K.V.D...
...Then he came to Canada...
...He is a Party organizer in the Embassy, of the Central Committee of the Communist Party...
...The Soviet machine exploited them and ruined them...
...GoUZENKO stated that the head of the secret Political System in the Embassy was Goussarov, who holds the official position of Second Secretary in the Embassy...
...Under no circumstances (this the Comintern snd the NKVD both understood) were these two types lo be confused...
...han> die what he called the "Comintern Intelligence Sy* tern...
...weak and corruptible," etc...
...The Third in a Series: Edited by Melvin J. Lasky ThEKE are two special aspects of Igor Gonsenk o's story which have a strikiag originality in all the literature about the Kremlin...
...Gouzenko added that Goussarov had been an assistant to Malenkov, Head of the Foreign Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Moscow-, and that he (Gouzenko) had seen Goussarov working in the Central Committee offices in 1942...
...Gouzenko stated that Goussarov was head of the group made up of members of the Communist Party at the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, that this group had a rover-name Trade union, and that Goussarov in eonJunction with, bat independently of, Pavlov was responsible for supervising the political orthodoxy of members of the Embassy...
...This, the Alee...
...Ironically enough, there were systematic planned efforts to coavert the ideologue...
...Nowhere else are the materials snd the analysis so forcefully and inrontrovertibly presented...
...They csn check anybody through the Comintern...
...This evidence given by ^Gouzenko and corroborated by the exchange of telegrams between Zabotin and Moscow, establishes, we think, that the N.K.V.D...
...Take the case of Norman Veall...
...lannary ft...
...Only the nsmr was liquidated, with the object of reassuring public opinion in the domoeratie eonntries...
...GoUZENKO stated before us that the Communist International, or "Comintern," whose dissolution had been announced in Moscow to the world press on May 15th and June 10th, 1943, continued to exist and to function secretly...
...These people lied, cheated, stole, and betrayed...
...They became a little suspicious about him, especially when they learned that he was in possession of a testimonial from a Communist in Great Britain who had been accused of espionage and hail spent several years in jail...
...to occupy important positions in labor unions...
...Gouzenko has brought to light there is the dark snd shameful record, including every mean detail—so-and-so, "Jew...
...Each institution, school, plant, industrial plant, the Red Army and even the branches of the government, all have an official representative of the N.K.V.D...
...First: "Moscow's Philosophy of the Spy...
...NASH," literslly translated, means "OURS" or "HE IS OURS...
...headquarters in Moscow, as already stated they also operated an under-cover network of Canadian agents...
...The attitude of members of the Soviet Embassy staff toward "developed" members of the Canadian Communist Party is well summed up in the Russian woid "NASH," occasionally used as a sentence by itself with reference to members of that Psrty in Colonel Zabotin's notebooks...
...so-and-so...
...We would lie less than frank, therefore, if we did not report this opinion...
...They became a little suspicious because he insisted that he be allowed to work...
...Goussarov is only the Second Secretary but obviously his authority.is on the level of the ambassador...
...Several times he tried to introduce himself to Sam Carr and some other people and said that he wanted to work, that he could get some information...
...The representatives of the N.K.V.D...
...Gouzenko said: "When I was working in Moscow as a cipher clerk at that time, that is the first time I saw this expression Neighbor...
...This apparently deals not with espionage but with obtaining and transmitting to Moscow biographical and other material on Canadian Communists and Communist sympathizers...
...Then there was Patonya, the doorman...
...I saw Patonya working in my room...
...network was more extensive than that of Colonel Zabotin...
...the Second Secretary...
...Gouzenko stated in his evidence that the N.K.V.D...
...He turned over his facts and figures, and he was paid off...
...Its functions included checking and reporting to the Russians on members of the Communist Psrty of Canada, as well as espionage...
...At first sight we would find it difficult to credit thst the leaders of any Canadian political party would take instructions, regarding the political activities which they directed, from agents of any foreign power...
...system is under the Minister of Internal Affairs—there is no Commissar now...
...Then there was a question about Hermina Rabinowitch...
...However they started, they became men and women without any honor, any personal integrity...
...This cold, calculating, cynical process is a graphic symbol of the so-called idealism of the USSR—the man who believes, who has a faith, who is touched by a moral feeling, is a dangerous and snd untrustworthy innocent!—He must be transformed into a corrupt mercenary if he is to serve his Soviet masters effectively' Second: the Degeneration of the Communist Man...
...Last week Soviet prop-* sgandists aaaoanced (with horror) thai Americana and Caaadians were experimenting with powerful weapons Master Arctic randKlana for as* In future wsrs...
...in the organization...
...Miss Rabinowiteh sent several letters to the Embassy, and of course those letters came to Pavlov...
...These left-wing Marxist-minded Canadians who became involved in the Russisn spy ring are representative rases of how the Stalinist movement degrades snd destroys...
...he is the head of the N.K.V.D...
...They telegraphed to Moscow and Moscow said, 'All right, we will check it.' Colonel Zabotin wrote a telegram, 'Please Check on Veall through the Comintern.' They have files on all Communists, files in the Comintern...
...To my surprise when I went back one night I found that he was working in my room...
...Wijhin the Russian network there are two great types_ the "professional" apy, and the "ideological" spy...
...1 never saw him working in the day, when I was either sleeping or working...
...After a cautious wait, receipts began to be taken for the expenditures...
...Gousenko testified that he had reason to believe that in addition to this, Ooussarov had the task of tranamlt«»g political directives from hia superiors la Moscow i the leaden of the Canadian Commualst movement...
...The ideologue was then "in the net," or aa the GPU notebooks have it, "he is ours" (nath...
...1945, Gouzenko said: — The announcement of the dissolution of the Comintern was probably the greatest farce of the' Communists in recent years...
...the costs are high...
...1 This system would also, according to Gouzenko...
...Actuslly the Comintern exists and continues Its work...
...to get members into controlling positions in the executives of youth movements, international friendship councils, etc., which could be important freat a propaganda point of view...
...He has direct contact with the Central Committee of the Communist Party...
...He has a special room set apart, a secret room, where he does his business...
...can use Military Intelligence or they can use Comintern Intelligence...
...So he was anxious to have this agent...
...No efforts were ever mid* to "convert" a professional...
...They worked for Russia...
...The ideologue is an "idealistic sympathiser...
...Finally Moscow ssid, 'Yes, we know Veall, we do not find any compromising material against Veall.' They can check up carefully...
...I went back about one o'clock because Colonel Zabotin told me he had a telegram to send...
...We have, however, sufficient evidence to show that the N.K.V.D...
...However, it was clear that she belonged to the Military Intelligence system, so he had to give her to Zabotin...
...These directives would Include not only gsneral political Unas to be taken up In Communist propaganda, but also Instructions on technique* of operation...
...When I arrived in Canada, some days later, I understood th«t Pavlov is the head of N.K.V.D...
...In the GPU-NKVD notebooks which Ll...
...Nobody in the Embassy knew he was working in the secret division...
...Together with him I saw Goussarov...
...have what they call a secret cabinet...
...Goussarov came to Canada as a Second Secretary in 1944, Gouzenko stated with regard to Goussmov: "Officially he was supposed to be working in the Textile Institute, as I read in a Canadian magazine...
...However, it would be still more difficult for us to Mievs that men such as Sam Carr and Fred Rose, who hsv* been shown to have acted for many years as key members of an espionage network headed by agents of a foreign power and directed against Canada, would not also be prepared to accept, from agents of that same foreign power, political instructions regarding ths organization which they directed...
...Then, slowly, tactfully, nominal expenses were taken care of—meals, taxi fares, and the like...
...I always saw him at night...
...In the beginning money was never ever broached...
...THE GOUZENKO STORY" Based on Official Secret Documents WHILE Gouzenko's evidence and the documents establish the existence of the N.K.V.D, organization in Canada, we have been unable to ascertain the extent of its infiltration and the identity of its Canadian or other agents...
...Officially he is the doorman in the embassy, one of the doormen...
...his services are free...
...Of course, these Mentis did not know about the existence of the two sjnwWhs...
...And then he has his secret agents moving around amongst-the workers, amongst the students, the school students, the school children, and amongst the employees of the various institutions in government and civil life...
...While one of the functions of the N.K.V.D...
Vol. 30 • February 1947 • No. 5
