Bulgaria
Celebrates
100 years of
liberation

1978 marks the centenary of the
Russo-Turkish war (1877-78) and
Is being celebrated in Bulgaria as a
War of national liberation by the
Bulgarian people.

With the sacrifice of the lives of
200,000 officers and men, the
Russian army liberated Bulgaria
from five centuries of domination
by the Ottoman Turkish empire
and the Bulgarian state, founded

- In 681, was restored.

The five centuries of Turkish
Occupation saw a continuous
Struggle by the Bulgarian people
for liberation. This struggle cul-
minated in the unsuccessful upris-
Ing in 1876 which ended in defeat.

brutal were the reprisals,
Which saw the murder of 30,000
Bulgarians, that strong revulsion
Was felt throughout Europe.

Reports published in England,
France and elsewhere about the
Slaughter and plunder committed
by the Turkish army raised a
Wave of indignation in democratic
Circles. The brightest minds of the
day, Charles Darwin, Victor
Hugo, Oscar Wilde, Giuseppe

_ Garibaldi afd many more spoke
out against the terror.

Horace Maynard, the United

States ambassador to Constan-
tinople reported to his govern-
Ment: ‘‘In Bulgaria ... the upris-
ing ... was suppressed under ter-
Tifying circumstances which
Made it the most pitiful event in
the modern history of the world.”’

The Bulgarian Revolutionary
Central Committee, which had its
headquarters in Romania, issued
a call for all Bulgarian patriots to
Tise up in support of the Russian
army. ““We must all rise as one
man and fraternally meet our
brothers,”’ read the proclamation.
At the start of the Russo-Turkish
War, a 7,500 strong Bulgarian vol-
Uunteer corps was formed of prom-
nent revolutionaries —- the cream

of the Bulgarian people in those:

days,

_ This corps was incorporated
Into the Russian advanced de-
tachments and distinguished itself
In the epic battles at Stara Zagora,
the Shipka- Pass and near

heinovo. Despite the intentions
Of the Czarist government, the
war had a’ progressive signi-
ficance. It did away with the
Turkish feudal and despotic sys-
tem on Bulgarian land and paved
‘the way for its capitalist develop-
Ment. :

In this way the 1877-78 war de
facto played the role of a bour-
8€0is-democratic revolution

Which was an inevitable stage in
the historic development of the
ulgarian people.

The Shipka monument

th honors
Ot fighters against 500 years of
= ‘Oman repression.

‘detente

THE GAMES

The Soviet press has
reacted to recent actions
taken against members of the
USSR diplomatic service by
the Canadian authorities with
a detailed account of provo-
cations in recent months.

In an article, ‘‘Who Stands
to. Gain?’ by V. Toshin,
printed in the newspaper Iz-
vestia, the writer suggests
that the recent expulsion of a
number of Soviet personnel
from Canada was simply a
diversionary move to’ polish
up the tarnished image of the
RCMP following a long list of
scandals.

He says that, unfortunate-
ly, there are forces in this
country who wish to scuttle
and poison
Canadian-Soviet relations. A
portion of Toshin’s article
follows:

Constant provocations
against Soviet officials in var-
ious Canadian cities were also
made ... Soviet representa-
tives in Canada receive
threatening telephone calls;
they are openly shadowed in
the streets and approached
for collaboration; their
apartments are secretly
searched; they are advised
not to return to the USSR and
attempts are made to supply
them with anti-Soviet mate-
rial.
Soviet cars are often held
up on highways without any

- reason and Soviet representa-

tives often found the tires of
their cars punctured. Some
other methods were used to
prevent Soviet officials from
performing their duties. The
Canadian Secret Services
were involved in all these
cases.

Although the Soviets re-
peatedly protested against
these practices and demanded
that Canadian authorities en-

- sure normal conditions for

work and life of the Soviet
personnel in Canada, provo-
cations continued.

It was only natural that the
Soviet Union took necessary
measures to protect the
legitimate rights of the Soviet
personnel in Canada and to
guard them from such “‘ac-
tions’’. Soviet citizens in
Canada certainly exercise due
caution with regard to the
provocateurs. In accordance
with established diplomatic
practice, members of the staff
of the Soviet Embassy in
Canada maintained contacts
with Canadian authorities, in-
cluding Canadian security
services guarding foreign dip-
lomatic, trade and airline of-
fices. These contacts were
maintained in order to protect
Soviet people in Canada from
provocations.

However, as it turned out
recently, some people tried to
use all of this for their own
dishonest purposes.

MOUNTIES PLAY

Harrassment, provocation and frame-ups are all part of the arsenal
used against Soviet personnel in Canada by the RCMP, says the Soviet

press as it outlines for its readers the ways this is done.

- Some time ago a James
Wood joined the numerous
army of police, customs and
immigration officers at the
International Airport, Dorval.
Later he suggested that of-

ficial contacts with Soviet
representatives at the airport
be put on a personal footing..

All of a sudden Wood

‘*spooked out’’ and said that.

in 1973 the Canadian Secret

Services had been planning to -

recruit a Soviet Commercial
Officer in Montreal. He
hinted that an act of provoca-
tion was in the making: a
Soviet official was going to be
detained and arrested.

Wood. also said that the
Canadian counter-intelligence
service was using sophisti-
cated techniques to collect
detailed information about all

Soviet citizens working in

Canada. According to him,
electronics were used on a
large scale to listen in on the
Soviet personnel in their pri-
vate apartments. To sound

* more convincing, the police-

man named about a dozen
addresses of Soviet citizens
where, he asserted, bugging
devices were on around the
clock.

It is quite clear today that
Wood was a stool-pigeon.
Contacts with him were used
by the Secret Services to
build a case and expel from

the country several Soviet |

officials who had never heard
about Wood.

In 1976 the Canadian Sec-
ret Services approached I.V.
Zakharov, Second Secretary
of the Soviet Embassy in
Canada, and tried to recruit
him. Zakharov rejected the
advances of the RCMP and
the Canadian authorities were
informed about the act of
provocation. There were sev-
eral such instances. :

In July 1977, A. Krysin, an
official of the Soviet Trade
Mission in Ottawa, was vis-
ited by a Peter Sidy, who

introduced himself as head of
the Peter Sidy Art and Adver-
tising Company. The Soviet
commercial officer, naturally,
was interested in promoting
contacts with Canadian
businessmen and received
Sidy. Instead of discussing
commerce, however, the lat-
ter began describing his con-
tacts with the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police. He said, for

instance, that the Mounted

Police requested of the Cana-
dian businessmen to report
their contacts with Soviet
people, but added that he
himself was one of ‘‘special
people’, instructed by the
police to freely communicate
and even become friendly
with Soviet citizens.

He also told his host that
the office of the RCMP on
Bank Street had photographs
of all officials of Soviet or-
ganizations, including Kry-
sin, and kept detailed files on
them. Obviously, Sidy was
another police stool-pigeon.

It is quite clear that the
Canadian Secret Services are
keeping tabs on both Cana-
dians and foreign citizens. It
has become common practice
in many Western countries to
shadow people in every pos-
sible way.

In the 1976-77 period alone,
dozens of tapping devices
were discovered in buildings
of the USSR Embassy, Trade
Mission, Consulate and even
representation at the ICAO
International Organization.
By grossly invading the
sphere of Soviet people’s of-
ficial affairs and private life,
the provocateurs fabricate
materials for attempts to
blackmail and _ discredit
Soviet staff members.

An attempt was made in
Canada not so long ago to
recruit a certain M., staff
member of the USSR Trade
Representation. An assign-
ment personally passed over
to him by one of the heads of
a Canadian Special Service,

Thomas Quilly, in December
1977, committed him for a
certain sum of money to
gather intelligence informa-
tion on the personnel, charac-
ter and lines of activity of a
Moscow department con-
nected with certain Canadian
companies.

The Canadian special ser-
vices at first wanted to enlist
agents of the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency for work
with M., but decided to con-
tinue the job on their own.
According to their calcula-
tions, M. suited them per-
fectly for spying and _ anti-
Soviet activity. It was pre-
cisely then that F. Dentrem-
ont, B. Cliff and T. Quilly,
experienced RCMP officials,
were put to work with M.
They made generous gifts to
him and gave him thousands
of roubles and dollars. They
did not stint opening an ac-
count at the Ottawa Branch of
the Bank of Montreal and
then also in the Swiss Bank
Corporation.

The RCMP worked out an
efficient procedure for mak-
ing contact with the person.
When on a business trip to
any country, he was im-
mediately to put a call
through to Canada, giving the
telephone number 613-234-
8602. That was sufficient for

.RCMP staff workers to con-

tact him within a matter of 3-5
days.

If, however, for some
reason this method did not
work, M. could come to the
Canadian Embassy in any
country and ‘“‘serve notice’’
of himself only to the First
Secretary (SIC), rather than
to the Ambassador or Coun-
sellor.

Canadian passports were
made out for M. (as a
safeguard) in the name of
Mikhail Dziuba (AF NR
287302) and Yaroslav Stadnik
(DH NR 406638). —-

Moreover, a paper was also
prepared for him (to meet a
possible emergency), which’
was called a guarantee letter
and bore the signature of
Warren Allmand, Solicitor
General of Canada (now
Minister of Consumer and -
Corporate Affairs) and he was
issued a birth certificate NR
F-63641, together with a so-
cial insurance card NR
612-006-692.

It should be said that the
leading roles in this anti-
Soviet show were distributed
among the Canadian special
services and that it was
mainly directed from the CIA
headquarters in Langley. We
can only express sincere re-
grets that Canadian au-

‘thorities, instead of recip-

rocating the Soviet Union's
desire to follow the course for
a favorable development of
Soviet-Canadian ties, have
caused tension in relations
between the USSR and
Canada.

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