The KGB in Canada (Yawn)

One of the less flattering statistics cited by the New York Times in its background reports on the Ottawa Summit Conference was that our capital is the second coldest in the world (behind Outer Mongolia’s). This has been a somewhat chilly summer, and one of the more frigid periods came when the Government once again fought off demands that it reveal the extent of KGB penetration at the highest official levels.

The Opposition’s sudden interest in this topic came when Britain was rocked by revelations in Chapman Pincher’s sensational Their Trade Is Treachery. Details in that book about extensive Soviet operations in Canada and Canadian embassies were embarrassing, but the coincidence of a Canadian TV documentary on KGB operations in North America made it look for a while as if Canadians would finally get an admission from the Liberals about their decades-long coverup. Canada’s national symbol is a beaver, but this relates to our early history as a fur-trading nation; more recently a mole would be characteristic.

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One of the less flattering statistics cited by the New York Times in its background reports on the Ottawa Summit Conference was that our capital is the second coldest in the world (behind Outer Mongolia’s). This has been a somewhat chilly summer, and one of the more frigid periods came when the Government once again fought off demands that it reveal the extent of KGB penetration at the highest official levels.

The Opposition’s sudden interest in this topic came when Britain was rocked by revelations in Chapman Pincher’s sensational Their Trade Is Treachery. Details in that book about extensive Soviet operations in Canada and Canadian embassies were embarrassing, but the coincidence of a Canadian TV documentary on KGB operations in North America made it look for a while as if Canadians would finally get an admission from the Liberals about their decades-long coverup. Canada’s national symbol is a beaver, but this relates to our early history as a fur-trading nation; more recently a mole would be characteristic.