AWAKENING IN AMERICA
AWAKENING IN AMERICA • ^.Q. Party sympathy? -/'A. Yes, that would be fair. .When we say "party" there is only one Party that > \ ia meant, the Communist Party ? A. That is correct ! -sf • ?...
...Zabotin'a organization were prepared to consider spending relatively large sums of money as an inducement to co-operation in espionage or other illegal activities, where the prospective agents were not members of the Communist Party, and where the other motivation did not exist...
...Handed out 10(1 dollars...
...These deal with relations between Col...
...NEXT WEEK: THE IDEOLOGICAL Sfr...
...The false Canadian passport, wanted fur a Soviet agent sent from Moscow and living in California, was in fact issued...
...1 think he felt that it brought the • subject of his work into a different (and more conspiratorial) focus...
...OnE purpose of the directors of the network in insisttag en paying money, even relatively small sums, to yic&its, would be to farther the moral Corruption of the Canadians caught "in the net" and thua to assist in their further "development" • GpuzeaJto testified that it was the general rule to pay . agents, and to obtain a receipt signed by the agent: : "They must have a receipt from the agent, and they mast send a receipt to Moscow for the money...
...Special assignment set forth (see annex...
...about 300 dollars a month...
...However, any doubt that Zabotin, Rogov and their Russian colleagues may have had regarding the financial as well as the previously established psychological corruptibility of Durnford Smith seems to have been dispelled later...
...It is necessary occasionally to help...
...In the course of time he may become the head of a group...
...It was proposed that Zabotin should provide $7,000 a year for the first two years or so for this office...
...8ce details in telegram of fi.7.45...
...He was to think it over and let me know, but we have had no opportunity to meet since I was in Montreal in the interim...
...Is desirous to work for us and promised to do everything possible...
...so it is clear that Carr duly fulfilled hi< pail of this bargain...
...Makes a good impression...
...Henry Harris, an optometrist in Toronto, who took disguised telephone calls from Lam ont (Motinov) and Brent (Rogov), arranged surreptitious meetings on street corners and in his home between them and Carr, and otherwise acted as a go-between for the Rus...
...Brought material fur photographing on radio locators...
...After the Mimeographed heading...
...The acquaintance meeting took place through Back...
...The passage in his report dated April 18, 1945, reads: Badeau was very disturbed when I brought up the subject of payment...
...Lives in Hull in a separate suburb...
...Only a new agent never • gives a receipt because they do not want to scare him in the firat time...
...The "Registration Card," under the mimeographed heading "Financial Conditions," has tbe typed Buzslan-entry: . Weak, receives...
...he took the money readily...
...Thus it is npparent that despite the relatively cheap method of inducing most new recruits to join the espionage network through non-monetary motivation caunes provided by Communist study groups, nevertheless fairly substantial sums of money were in fact being paid out by Zabotin, particularly to senior agents...
...sian leaders, of this espionage ring and the National Organizer of the Labor-Prnpressive Party (Communist Party of Canada...
...The dossier prepared on Smith was also laid, before us by Gouzenko...
...Financial Conditions" there * s, typed entry reading...
...Rogov...
...on the one hand, and n Cermlrm Rabinowitch, upon whom we are reporting, on the other...
...Zabotin and Tin Dncetar were prepared to spend relatively large .jmms of money for agents, when this was considered necessary, is prqyidcd by several documents...
...Needs periodic assistance...
...On August 25, 11(45, Zabotin wired Moscow about a proposal put to him by ("ergon, whereby the latter should open an office in Ottawa as consulting geological engineer...
...Whether 7'/ie Director in Moscow would have agreed I" this proposal of Zabtin's is not known, as Couzenko left Ihc Embassy a few days afler this telegram was sent, Another illustration of the fact that Col...
...An entry in the dossier kept in Russian at the Soviet Military Attache's Office on Durnford Smith, in the records headed—"Conine of Met-tings," reports that at the first direct meeting between Smith and Rogov, arranged by Cumin on 5th of July, I!i45, Rogov gave money to Smith...
...The agent always gives a receipt...
...Zabotln's secret files on Sain Carr, the- National Organizer of the "Labor-I'rogrcs«lv« Party," has the same mimeographed form already Nferred to, headed "Htgistration Card...
...This dossier shows the payment to him of ut least $X...
...Financial Condition* financially secure, but takes ¦Woey...
...That Durnford Smith was at first reluctant to accept payment from the Russians for the espionage activity en their behalf is shown by one of Lunan's typed reports which he delivered periodically to Lt...
...Similarly, botes in Russian, typed and signed I.umonl (Motlnov) with "/ confirm—Grunt" added in the handwriting of Zabotin, and dated G.11.44, deal with plans whereby it was hoped to induce Jack and Dick, two Colonels in the Headquarters of the Canadian Army, who were not In any sense Communist sympathizers, to work as espionage agents, These notes, dealing mainly "with, possible psychological methods of approach, contain, In a long list of Information to be directly obtained about them, the following: i (d I Financial conditions, inclinations toward establishing material,security for his family (intentions to engage in business, to own a car, a home of his own and what hinders the fulfilment of this plan), find also the following: 4. Program for future (Ideological or financial reipn^s to be determined), Aniithei purpose for which Col...
...abol.in was prepared «l IcjisI In consider, spending considerable sums of money was to assist, in placing Canadians, already working with proved capacity ns espionage agents, in positions where they could be TOost useful lo the espionage network...
...Such receipts could, if necessary, presumably be ¦sed for blackmail purposes if the agent's enthusiasm 'f*r the cause should later wane...
...The dossier kept in Col...
...1 i '] No regular-meeting fixed, contact will lie maintained I through Back...
...0 during a period in 1945, as well as a payment of $.'1,01)0 to be used in bribing an official of the Passport Office of the Canadian Department of External Affairs (see Section V...
...At the meeting behaved very ' cautiously, somewhat cowardly...
...Carr had asked $5,000 for this latter purpose, but The Director In Moscow had replied that this was "o fantastic sum" and offered $:t,()00 maximum...
...Zabotln's organization and Pavlov's organization (N.K.V.D...
...This entry reads as follows: 5.7.45...
...The documents also show that The Director in Mos"*^ cow and Col...
...Similarly one of the Russian documents relating to Fred Rose, M.P., a member of the National Executive of the Labor-Progressive (Communist Party),^includes a direction about handing him six hundred dollars...
...In the meantime, they facilitated orderly bookkeeping whirh Col...
...Requested to do photographic work by himself and contact with Bagley...
...Zabolin's chiefs took very seriously...
...The ilociiriteilfs also show' that $100 was paid at this time to Dr...
...The documents record, Inter alia, a transfer of %\0,000"through Zabotin to this person, and the transmission by her of this sum through New York In the network in Europe In which she was interested...
Vol. 30 • February 1947 • No. 6
