Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than two months after it occurred, the Canadian government last week made public details of another Soviet espionage case. Gennadi Popov, a second secretary at Ottawa's Soviet embassy - the same embassy where Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko exposed a vast spy apparatus in 1945 - was ordered out of Canada last July for trying to bribe an R.C.A.F. civilian employee...
...espionage incident was, much tamer than the Gouzenko case. Gouzenko's revelations involved top British and Canadian atomic scientists and a Member of Parliament. Popov's only known contact was a Grade 2 air-force clerk, James Stanley Staples, 30, whom he met at an Ottawa chess club...
When the Russian invited him out for a drink, Staples asked a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer for advice and was told to accept and keep the Mountie informed. Then, under the illusion that he had been deputized as a counterspy, Staples began chumming around with Popov and other Russians; the conversation eventually drifted around to Staples' work and R.C.A.F. aircraft. His police friend warned him to stop, but Staples continued meeting the Russians. Finally, when Popov gave him $50 (Staples said he gave it back) and spoke about providing him with a camera, government security officers cracked down...
...remarkable display of depth, the varsity placed its entire 12-man squad ahead of the first M.I.T. team, and only a second place finish by B.U.'s Canadian marathon champion, George Hillier, deprived the Crimson of cross country's equivalent of the perfect game...
...strong marathoner pulled to with-in five yards of Reider going up the hill, but with one-half mile of flat running to go, Reider applied his potent finishing kick, and opened up ground on the slower Canadian. At the finish line, Reider, who led for most of the 4.4 miles, won going away by 20 yards...