"THE GOUZENKO STORY"
"THE GOUZENKO STORY" Based on Official Secret Documents PERHAPS the most startling single aspect of the entire Fifth Colnmn network ia the uncanny success with which the Soviet agents were...
...an entry in Col...
...degree she also holds, and was employed in the Research Division of the Bank of t'anada...
...London, England, who for many years had held a position of confidence in tho Office of the High Commissioner of the United Kingdom at Ottawa...
...Rogov's dossier on Lunan, recording a list of relatively early matters to discuss with Lunan under the heading "Organizational Assignments- far 'Research' Group," reads In part, in translation: 4. In view of the fact...
...nor by Lunan at this stage to Mazerall, Halperln or Durnford Smith...
...The motivation which led persons such as these to take-part in an espionage conspiracy directed against Canada by agents of a foreign power js significant and seems to us to he of great importance...
...Agatha Chapman is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, whose M.A...
...Grant...
...Only a few days ago Mr...
...However, money was in due course paid out by the members of the Soviet Embassy who directed the espionage network to Canadian agents, and it did play a part in the development of the conspiracy...
...Kathleen Maty Willthtr was a graduate of the London School of Economics, of...
...Mazerall, when asked whether I.unan had ever offered him money, stated: A. I am positive, knowing myself, that the slightest suggestion of it would have discouraged it as far as I was concerned entirely...
...David Shugar, who held a Ph.D...
...The likelihood is strong that there will soon bean equivalent American committee organised to uncover the secret networks'bperating in this country...
...He is a man of very substantial independent means...
...I therefore beg you to send urgently operational sums of money...
...Such evidence as we have been able to obtain suggests that money payments were gradually broached to Canadian espionage agents...
...money wss not mentioned at first to Lunan by either Fred Rose or in the first letter of Instructions given him by Jan (Lt Col...
...Care was taken by the espionage recruiting agent not to mention the possibility of monetary rewards at the time when the first assignment or'request was put tothe selected recruit, e.g...
...No serious person doubts that there exists in the United States an even greater and more strategic Fifth Column...
...2. As it is known to you, in the last two months we had to make heavy expenditure and therefore there will be nothing left in the cash box by August 1. For the diplomatic mail alone (July, August) it is necessary to pay $2,500.00...
...On the contrary the evidence is overwhelming both from the documents and from the testimony of several such agenta themselves—e.g...
...degree in Physics from McGill University, had been employed by Research Enterprises Ltd., Toronto, a Crown Company engaged in producin" " -rtw-r r...
...HERE is no evidence that monetary incentive played an important part in the original motivation of those persons whose ideology was sympathetic to the Communist cause, who agreed to act as espionage agents...
...The Ottawa conclusion stated: "There exists in Canada a Fifth Column organized and directed by Russian agents in Canada and in Russia...
...1. The ambassador has agreed to help us by giving us an amount of money from the embassy nnd he proposed that the money be sent back in small sums to his address at the Embassy and to the address of the Commercial Counsellor...
...If the opportunity arises, a part of the amount may be sent by diplomatic mail...
...F. W. Poland w»« an officer In the Directorate of Intelligence of the R.C.A.F...
...Matt Nightingale was a Squadron Leader in the R.C.A.F...
...Lunan, Mazerall, Willsher, Royer, Gerson—that their original motivation was n product of their political ideology and of the psychological conditioning received in the study-groups...
...Better results were presumably expected at this-stage when the potential new agent should regard the matter solely as an ideological assignment...
...Rogov...
...rrnent, and was later an officer In the Canadian Navy in the Diretorate of Electrical Supply...
...that Bagley, Badeaii live far from the city, we will be giving them money for taxis, whenever this will be necessary for them.' Warn them ' that they must not come up in the taxi to the place where they have to meet you...
...Sometimes they began with a mere offer of "expenses," e.g...
...David M. Lilienthal, the newly-appointed chairman of the U.S...
...1 • It appears that the senior members of the network felt, probably rightly, that mention of money at this stage would act as a deterrent rather than as an inducement to secret Communists facing consciously for the first time the critical issue of invitation or initiation into what was obviously an illegal conspiracy directed against Canada...
...In other words a financial Incentive was only gradually Introduced for such agents to supplement and perhaps eventually supplant the' original motivation supplied by the psychological development courses provided in Communist 1'cells...
...This tactful technique clearly produced results whicn would not olre-v se ha/e been obtained, e.g...
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...Atom-Energy Commission, confessed—"I have read the Canadian Spy Report, and I want to tell yon that aleeping these nights has not been very easy for me...
...Q. When you say "from our point of view" whose point of view do you refer to...
...and later Executive Secretary of the Interdepartmental Committee on Psychological • Warfare...
...or' by Sokolov to1 Miss" Wolkln...
...Small amounts might also be added to the entertainment expenses...
...Durnford Smith and Edward Wilfrid Maze rail were graduates of McGill and the University of New Brunswick, respectively, and their ability was highly regarded by their superiors in the National Research Council of Canada...
...Harold Gerson held responsible administrative positions in Allied War Supplies,- Ltd., in the Department of Munitions and Supply, and the War Assets Corporation...
...Q. What was their motive to do what they did ? A. Their motives would be Idealistic or political...
...We trust it will be staffed by men, who as The New Leader editorial pointed out last issue, are both politically intelligent and devoted to our traditional safeguards for civil liberties...
...Israel Halprrn was a Professor of Mathematics at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, and a major in the Directorate of Artillery engaged on important phases of research...
...29.8.45...
...He had attended Military School in Mobile, Alabama, and was a graduate of McGill University, Montreal...
...On August 29th, 1945, a telegram was sent by Zabotin, under his cover name of Grant to Moscow, reading as follows: 270 To the Director, to No...
...Q. What, do you mean by political T ; A. That they felt'they were serving a valid political motive in doing this...
...A. Mine and Smith's end Mazerall's...
...Captain Luhan stated in evidence before Us* when asked about this entry:' ' A. Jon was always bringing up the question of expenses and he did mention this question of tnxl ¦ rides', but it was from our point of view a preposterous suggestion and I simply ignored it...
...Nor, according to their evidence before us, was money mentioned at this -stage to Miss Willsher by Fred Rose or Eric Adam's...
...However, it has clearly been the established practice for the Russians directing the network in Canada to press relatively small sums of money*' ranging from twenty-five to perhaps two hundred dollars, upon Cannian Communists once they had well begun their career as espionage agents for the Soviet Union...
...1 the Fourth in a Series: Edited by Melvin J. Lasky THE lessons and implications of the Canadian story are not being lost in America...
...THE GOUZENKO STORY" Based on Official Secret Documents PERHAPS the most startling single aspect of the entire Fifth Colnmn network ia the uncanny success with which the Soviet agents were able to find Canadians who were willing to betray their country and to supply to agents of a foreign power secret information to which they had access in the course of their work, despite ostbs of allegiance, of office, and of secrecy which they had taken...
...If it had been offered to me I wonld have said no, at the moment, and I know I would have told him to get out,of the car, and I would have driven away...
...David Gordon Lunan, loaned by the army to the Wartime Information Roarel and later to the Canadian Information Services, was Editor of the periodical "Canadian Affairs" Mid a responsible official of the "Information to Armed Forces" section of the Canadian Information Services...
...E.G...
...Many of the Canadian public servants implicated in this espionage network were persons with an unusually high degree of education, and many were well regarded by those who worked with them in agencies and departments of the public service, as persons of marked ability and intelligence...
...J. S. Benning held responsible administrative positions in the Department of Munitions and Supply and subsequently in the Department o{ Reconstruction...
...Every day there is more and snore evidence' that both Washington and the nation have awakened to Igor Gousenko's warning...
...There is no issue or problem before the American people which is so urgent as this...
...Last week the Saturday Evening Peat concluded • short series of two articles digesting and' sum mint up the highlights of the Royal Commission's investigations into the Stalinist Fifth Column...
...Q. What do you mean by saying that if you had been offered money you would not be here ? A. 1 would not have accepted money...
...Raymond lloyer, Ph.D., a member of the staff of McGill University and a valued senior worker with the National Research Council, is a highly respected scientist with an international reputation in chemistry...
...Eric Adnmf, a graduate of MeGill University in engineering who obtained the degree of Master of Business Administration with high distinction from Harvard University in 1931, occupied an important position in the Industrial Development Rank, ami had previously held responsible positions with the Wartime Requirements Board, the Foreign Exchange Control Board, and The Bank of Canada in Ottawa, where his ability was highly regarded...
Vol. 30 • February 1947 • No. 6
