bout de papier, Volume 22, Issue No. 2, 2006
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…
Reds in Rockcliffe?
Sixty years ago, the defection of a cypher clerk from the embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in Ottawa focussed world attention on Canada in an early and dramatic episode of what became the Cold War. Documents and testimony from…
How the Cold War Began: The Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies
Through diligent research, assisted by greater access to archival material than was possible until recently, Amy Knight has brought to bear her great expertise on Soviet history to produce one of the finest books on the Gouzenko Affair, which she rightly terms…
Hidden Secrets: A Complete History of Espionage and the Technology Used to Support It
This book is directed at the individual who is casually interested by the world of intrigue and wants an enlightening book which can be consumed in easily read short segments. The book relies heavily on photographs to present its story of the…
The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West
The book is a quite extraordinary historical record of Soviet espionage activities over a period of several decades directed against countries in the west, including Canada. Based on secret KGB archives it represents an authentic, unique work of reference which historians, foreign…
The True ’Intrepid’ and the Unknown Agents
Bill Stephenson, the Canadian-born head of the British Security Coordination in the United States during World War II, was a genuine hero. He also appears to have been something of an enigma who was not always well-served by those who have written…
