Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...villain to many people. It was neatly timed to interfere with the Atlantic Alliance negotiations between Western powers. Why combine against the Soviet threat when there may be no threat at all?--this was an immediate reaction to Stalin's vague and friendly words, and it showed how devastating Russian propaganda...
...deportation hearing on Ellis Island. There he was joined by his wife, who had come down to the U.S. from Toronto last December without a visitor's permit, and had stayed beyond the 29-day limit. Mrs. Carr was asked if she knew that her husband was a Russian spy. Said she: "I suppose...
...ended a three-year search. The Mounties had plastered Canada with "Wanted" signs after Carr disappeared early in 1946 just ahead of a subpoena from the Royal Commission on espionage. The commission, whose report gave a full chapter to Sam Carr, called him "the main Canadian cog" in the Russian military espionage organization in Canada...
Almost from the time that Russian-born Schmil Kogan (alias Cohen, alias Carr, alias Lewis) arrived in Canada in 1924, the commission found, he was a professional Communist. After a stint on the prairies as a laborer, he showed up in Montreal as an organizer for the Young Communist League. Within two years he joined the Communist Party (outlawed by an Ontario court in 1931 and by the Dominion government in 1940, reborn in 1943 as the Labor Progressive Party...
...ring operated by the Soviet Military Attaché Colonel Zabotin. Documents niched by Igor Gouzenko from Zabotin's files showed Carr's record. It detailed various payments of Moscow money to him, among them $3,000 to bribe an official who issued a false passport for a Russian agent in California. That bribe is one of the counts in the Mounties' warrants charging Carr with violating the Official Secrets Act and the Criminal Code. Last week Canada's Justice Department was considering other charges to lay against Carr when the U.S. authorities were through with...