Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...getting on towards midnight. Robert Kenneth Taylor, Ottawa correspondent of the Toronto Daily Star, suddenly had a hunch. He called the Beechwood Avenue apartment of Fred Rose, the lone Communist in Canada's House of Commons. Taylor, as well as every other newsman in Ottawa, had heard persistent rumors that Rose had been arrested-or would be-in Canada's spy investigation. Now he asked Rose: what about...
...means a one-way deal. Said Britain's Sir Wilfrid Griffin Eady, who spent a month in Ottawa negotiating the loan: almost all the money will be spent in Canada, principally on foods and manufactured goods. Knowing that, practically all Canadians approved the loan; some thought its terms could even have been more generous...
...many secrets, how much confidential information was actually passed on to Moscow, Ottawa was not ready to say, perhaps did not know. But it did know, and now made public, the identity of the four who had connived with Zabotin. The four...
...Troops & Periscopes. The Ottawa Embassy was also used to get facts about the U.S. Moscow asked for "information as to the transfer of the American troops from Europe to the U.S. and the Pacific." Zabotin was told to locate the U.S. Ninth Army, and 20 other U.S. military units, to learn about "electronic shells used by the American Navy...
...Government first heard about the Russian espionage last autumn from Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk in the Soviet Embassy at Ottawa. Why he tattled, the Government did not say. But he named names, produced documents, and pointed to Nicolai Zabotin, the Embassy's military attaché, as the spy ring's head. He said that Zabotin, in the best spy manner, used a bogus name: "Grant...