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Neither before nor during his trial would he talk. Harold Samuel Gerson, 41, Montreal-born Communist spy, preferred to keep his own secrets, though as an engineer in Canada's wartime Munitions Department, he had given away several Canadian state secrets to Russia. Government officials had appealed to him, "as a Canadian citizen, to assist his Government by supplying any information in his possession regarding Soviet espionage." Gerson snapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Five Years for No. 6 | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Last week in Ottawa a jury convicted Gerson of conspiring to communicate state secrets to Soviet Russia. He was the sixth defendant convicted in the spy case. With no visible flicker of feeling he listened to Justice G. F. McFarland's scathing words: "I am not going to lecture you. You are too intelligent, even brilliant, not to understand fully why you are here." The sentence: five years in Kingston Penitentiary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Five Years for No. 6 | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...wormwood for Canadians. In a crisp, 4,000-word report, the Government ticked off the identities of four other persons accused of giving secrets to the Russians: 1) Dr. Raymond Boyer, a McGill University chemistry professor who had worked on a super-explosive known as "R.D.X."; 2) Harold Samuel Gerson, a scientist who worked for the Department of Munitions & Supply; 3) R.C.A.F. Squadron Leader Matt Simons Nightingale; 4) Dr. David Shugar, who worked on anti-submarine devices while in the Canadian Navy. Five other "detainees" were still to be identified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: So Red the Rose | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...feel too bad about that shirt as does MILTON GERSON about a shirt he got back the other day ... he will have to gain 25 pounds before he can wear it ... at the present time he can turn about three times before the shirt even moves...

Author: By M. O. P., | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

WANTED: A high speed camera that will be fast enough to catch Milton Gerson in his room at any time of day or night when he hasn't taken his shoes off . . . A fool proof invention on that would cover the hat changing problem. A quick presto! changoo! affair with three colors . . . Escalators to the top deck of all dormitories for us short-winded lads, . . . A phone that is not within two feet of a main entrance of a dorm . . . Some real music to accompany the movies on Tuesday nights instead of the excuse offered for the same that accompanies...

Author: By S. O. Melvin parnell, | Title: Flotsam and Jetsam of Company D | 5/7/1943 | See Source »

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