Word: gerda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been the talk of the country. Last week it moved into the courtroom, as public hearings opened under Supreme Court Justice Wishart Flett Spence, 62. They would try to determine whether there had been a national security leak in the friendship of 36-year-old German Party Girl Gerda Munsinger with ministers of the former Conservative government. So far, the evidence was about as scant as the party-girl costumes Gerda had donned for cheesecake photos in Munich...
...testimony of the week came from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Gerda, the Mounties claimed, was jailed several times in East and West Germany for "forged documentation, petty thievery and prostitution," and in 1949 admitted to West German police that she had "engaged in espionage" for the Russians. "Other facts gleaned by counterintelligence sources," deadpanned the report, "tended to corroborate her statement...
...Once Gerda was safely in Canada, the Mountie report went on, she waited out her five-year-residence requirement and applied for citizenship. Then came a routine investigation that turned up not only her past record but also the fact that she "had been carrying on an illicit sexual relationship with the Associate Minister of National Defense"-Pierre Sevigny...
...what, after two weeks of national uproar, has been nicknamed "The Mudslinger Affair." Before a packed House of Commons, Liberal Pearson announced that he had appointed Supreme Court Justice Wishart Flett Spence, 62, to look into the possible security lapses resulting from the friendships of German Go-Go Girl Gerda Munsinger, 36, with "ministers-plural" of the previous Conservative government. Many of the hearings will be held in camera. Barring major new developments, this should put the whole case largely out of the public eye until the judge reports to Pearson later this spring...
Long Blonde Pigtails. Hees was the second Diefenbaker minister to admit he knew Gerda. Though it looked as if the Liberals would nail her as a "security risk" for her various unsavory associations in the past, it seemed less and less likely that she would turn out to be any sort of Mata Hari, as Cardin had darkly suggested. The files of West German intelligence agencies turned up not the slightest shred of evidence that she had worked for the East. And in CBC radio and TV interviews, the heavily mascaraed East German refugee made it abundantly clear that there...