bout de papier, Volume 27, Issue No. 3, 2013
Unlocking the Wastebasket: How an Academic Built Canadian Foreign Intelligence
“They Lock Up Their Wastepaper Baskets” read the headline of the February 28, 1950, edition of The Standard. The article included a photograph of a tall, lanky man and described his job at the Joint Intelligence Bureau as supplementing “the intelligence on…
Whither Forecast: A Canadian Predicts the Balance of Power in the Cold War
_n earlier issues of bout de papier, we reprinted two papers from the early 1950s which were parts of a comprehensive “Re-Examination of Canadian Foreign Policy” that was guided by the Deputy Under-secretary of State for External Affairs, Escott Reid, at the…
George Glazebrook
Born in 1899, George Glazebrook was a prominent historian of international relations before arriving in Ottawa in 1942 to take up war-time service in External Affairs in the intelligence and security areas. After leaving to join National Defence in 1948, he returned…
