bout de papier, Volume 5, Issue No. 3, 1987
The Referee Ultimatum
THE TWO SENIOR KGB OFFICERS masquerading as Soviet hockey officials flinched as shattered glass and ice hit the walls and floor of the cramped, colourless ante-room of Moscow’s otherwise stately Palace of Sports. It was late morning of Thursday, September 28, 1972.…
The Selected Works of George R. Lindsey
WHO IS DR GEORGE LINDSEY? Why is he of interest?
The Moscow Rules
CANADIANS WILL REMEMBER TONY MENDEZ as the CIA operative who assisted in the exfiltration of the “American guests” in Teheran in 1980. This book is about his background as the CIA’s master of disguise, inventing ways to meet Russians in Moscow at…
The Traitor Who Wasn’t
Herbert Norman was a senior and respected Canadian diplomat hounded to his suicide, in Cairo in 1957, by American McCarthyites seizing on his dalliance with the ideas of communism. Norman was interested in Marxist thought, and probably remained a moderate socialist throughout his life… but he was not a life-long communist and did not betray […]
Travels to the End of History
FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II, the occupying forces — Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union (“The Four Powers”) — divided a defeated Germany into two states. The western zones became the Federal German Republic, or West Germany, and the Eastern…
Diplomat, Dissident, Spook
WRITING IN THE TORONTO STAR many years ago, James Eayrs, the then-celebrated University of Toronto political scientist, described the induction ritual for newly minted Foreign Service Officers with his usual provocative flourish. Probationary officers, he wrote, were led to a chamber in…
The Soviet Spy at External Affairs
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, the country’s primary counterintelligence agency, recently announced that foreign intelligence collection and espionage threats against Australia are greater now than at any time during the Cold War. Today’s espionage landscape is in many ways more complex, featuring…
No Evidence Required
Later this year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to make a formal apology for past persecution of gays, including not only the criminalization of homosexual acts but also the notorious “gay purges” from the public service of Canada, which persisted even…
The Beginning of the End of the Cold War
Canadian diplomats may have written the first report suggesting that the Cold War
