Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evidence establishes that a network of [spies] had been organized ... for the purpose of obtaining secret and confidential information. ... These operations were carried on by certain members of the staff of the Soviet Embassy at Ottawa under direct instructions from Moscow...
...Ottawa well knew, and so did many another discerning Canadian, that the Russian search for scientific data in the Dominion was neither surprising nor reprehensible ; the best nations do it. To official Canada, the whole affair was purely domestic: some civil servants obviously had acted, if not treasonously, at least unpatriotically in giving away - or perhaps selling - atom-bomb data and other information. Unperturbed by international hubbub (and inexperienced in it) Canada concentrated on tidying up her own house, and ignored Moscow's roar for the time being (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Ottawa Journal, in recording the arrest of a young woman, delightedly pounded on the fact that she had in her room a copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace...
...Ottawa's Citizen noted that "four individuals . . . with Russian-sounding names" had registered at an Ottawa hotel. Officialdom had an attack of jitters too. Trumpeted Ontario's Premier George Drew: ". . . The time has not come when Canada is going to accept as its national emblem the hammer & sickle...
...stories in Dominion history. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King told part of the sobering truth in an unprecedented, 320-word statement: "Information of undoubted authenticity has reached the Canadian Government which establishes that there have been disclosures of secret and confidential information to ... a foreign mission in Ottawa. . . . The persons involved include some now employed or who have been employed in a number of [Government departments]." The rest of the truth was harder to pin down...