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{2raturnaya Gazeta gives us the inside story on one é
artynov, an official with the Soviet Foreign Trade organiza

____ Meeting the Chief
At this meeting he, believing
“Me to have been finally broken
“*0d recruited, switched over to a
paient master’s tone: ‘We
ve been doing nothing but talk
; with you for several years without
‘Ver getting down to business. It’s
sh time we did.’
4 But you’ve done nothing
/°tyond talking either’, I
"*iswered. ‘Good. We’re going to
“Make the first move. I'll have you
ae my chief tomorrow. He’s
"Bill Cliff, head of an RCMP de-
/ Partment.’
“We Met on an old steamship,
med into a floating restaurant.
appeared to be a rather
-800d-natured, charming and
_ Witty 40 year old. He welcomed
‘ Me enthusiastically like an old
’ fiend. He was of medium stature,
' Tound-faced and blue-eyed. He
bo produced his RCMP identity

“He said: ‘I understand you’re
Particularly concerned about
Your safety. The way our services
Work rulés-out any leak of infor-
“Mation whatsoever. Still, we do
/8Ppreciate your apprehensions.
“He put down in front of me a visit-
“ng ‘card bearing the name of
Mikhail Dzuba of the ‘Dungarvin
/Company Ltd.’ st
|.“ “This is your card’, he said.
You will have a Canadian
Passport in this name and bank
“®counts opened in Canada and
‘Switzerland. If you wish, we can
ring. you into contact with the
‘merican or British Special Ser-
paces — the CIA or. the SIS who
te also prepared to have you
Cooperate with them.
‘Now about contacting us.

Ou often travel to other coun-
ies. Your new visiting card
i i ars a token telephone number.
it is the one of the round-the-
Clock dispatcher’s office. You can
_ Call from any country and I’ find
i ee In case of a failure turn to a

Ist Secretary of any Canadian
5 Mbassy and mention my name
‘0 him. You will be taken under
_~anada’s protection and have
Your passport immediately deli-
, vered to you’. \
. Cliff gave me a recognition
j ine for contacting him but
y OSKed me to remember it without
| Writing it down. .
Enter the CIA
_,, Afew days later I was back in
z ee and in my office. And
‘ felt ¢ Judging by certain signs, I
t I was not being forgotten.
i to ee while ona brief mission
New U-S., Iwas tracked down in
ew York by Cliff in person.
: Rowe it quite clear that the

rathe had its dragnet spread
B reag T far and wide. There was no
Sones to doubt the intelligence
and Ice link-up between Canada
any tte U-S. Nor did Cliff make

has bones about it. Asked how he

Seay in tracing me in
hel —. Cliff answered: ‘CIA

me 5° the CIA already knows
__~» too?” T asked, displeased.
|

Cliff insinuated, “You may even
find this paying, because you can
get some protection from them as
well’.
_ “He opened his suitcase and
began producing all kinds of pap-
ers: 2 Canadian passport in the
name of Mikhail Dzuba with my
photo, birth certificate, a social
insurance card, account books of
Canadian and Swiss banks issued
in the same name. aS
““With a complacent air, Cliff
silently: extracted a document

from his fold and laid it down be-

fore me. This was a stamped
paper blank, bearing the Cana-
dian coat-of-arms, and signed by
the Attorney General of Canada,
Warren Allmand who was con-
currently Minister of Justice. It
read:

“This letter, in accordance
with the Canadian Emigration
Act 8(1), guarantees that Mikhail
Dzuba is a Canadian subject, with
all the consequences thereof. “At

the same time the Canadian gov-

ernment guarantees the granting
of asylum to Mikhail Dzuba at any
time he finds convenient’. It was
dated September 23, 1973.

“J just couldn’t believe my
eyes when I first read this letter.
All right, I granted, suppose the
special services can open bank
accounts and make insurance
cards for you. But a passport is a
more serious thing. This means
granting you citizenship. And
now the letter! A letter on behalf
of the government, with
safeguards for one whom they al-
ready considered to be their spy
in the Soviet Union!

‘Money-Commodity’ Exchange

“Cliff fixed the date of our next

-meeting, telling me I was to pre-

pare the information he wanted
and-I would get the money for it.

“The ‘information’ had been
thoroughly prepared long in ad-
vance in Moscow and the
‘money-commodity’ exchange
took place in a half-empty re-
staurant, the Chalet Suisse. My
oral information looked substan-
tial at first glance. It consisted,
above all, of some personal
characteristics of certain indi-
viduals. I gave him the content of

conversations in a Soviet office in’

Canada which, as we had sus-
pected, had been bugged by
Canadian intelligence agents. I
named some goods and equip-
ment supposedly figuring in the
list of our projected purchases in
Canada. Finally, I said: ‘That’s
enough for today’.

“Cliff did not object. He pro-
duced a thick envelope with dol-
lars. ‘Here’s a tidy sum’, he said.
‘Now, you wouldn’t object to
this, I hope?’ And Cliff transfer-
red some of the money into his
own pocket. His face shone with
an amazingly charming smile.
‘That’s something only the two of
us will.know about, right?’ And
he raised his glass: ‘To a good
start!’ =

‘‘We had yet another meeting
in New York. He had prepared a

further assignment for me. He
was interested, notably, in the
Soviet Union’s economic links
with West Germany, France and
Italy.

‘*An analysis of his questions
made it all to obvious that it was
by no means a case of minor spy-

ing. By all accounts the Canadian
intelligence service was plotting
some heavy moral and political
damage to our state. Its action
could have caused losses running
into millions of roubles and

threatened our country’s securi-
7 een

~” “In Moscow it was decided to-

prepare one more piece of ‘infor-
mation’ for Cliff. It was prepared
very carefully, indeed.

The Chief Gets Nasty ©
*‘Shortly afterwards I left for
Switzerland on a mission to an
industrial exhibition at Basel. In
spite of my crowded schedule, I
found a moment.to call Ottawa by
the number which had been given

_to me. Cliff turned up three days

later. There was not a trace left of
his previous affability. He was
now dry and official toned with an
ill-disguised arrogance. He talked
like a boss to his subordinates:

‘* ‘Let me see your answer to
my questions!’ ‘I have written no-
thing, nor shall I write anything,
but there is something I can tell
you’, I replied.

“On hearing my ‘information’
he snapped: ‘It’s not exactly what
I wanted. This is not enough. I’ve
brought along your next fee and
more questions. Now I will name
your working partners and you'll
give me their characteristics. I
want you to stress the short-
comings and flaws of these
people.’

‘‘He gave me two days to pre-
pare for the next interview. This
time I decided to reply to his pres-
sure with verbosity. I swamped
him with my ‘information’. He
handed me yet another envelope
with money. The next time I came
to a foreign country, Cliff warned,
there might be a Mr. Norman ar-
riving to see me instead of him.
He would produce Cliff's photo-
graph and an identity card of an
official of the RCMP or the Spe-
cial Service of another country.
‘You can talk to him quite openly;
just like you do to me’.

‘‘Late last year I again went to

Switzerland on business, this time _

to Geneva. Once more, I put
through the coded call.

‘A person who called himself
Norman rang me up three days
later and offered to meet me at a
restaurant for a business talk. I
came there earlier than he did and
sat down at an out-of-the-way ta-
ble. A tall man appeared soon
and, hardly saying ‘how do you
do’, plumped into a chair next
to me. :

‘**T et’s have your report!
he ordered rudely.
I was enraged:
“Who are you
and what
do you
want?’

‘With a quick gesture he pro-
duced a visiting card and put it
down before me. I read: ‘Gerald
Stadnyk. Sales representative of
the Husky Injection Moulding
Systems Ltd.’ in Ottawa.

‘« «This doesn’t mean anything
to me, Mr. Stadnyk,’ I said.

-- ‘Stadnyk — that’s you!’, he snap-

ped. ‘This is your visiting card.
Mikhail Dzuba is dead.’ He
showed me, as he spoke, Cliff's
photograph and his identity card
as an RCMP official named
Thomas Quilly.

“Tam the fourth man in the
RCMP leadership. Now you are
going to work with me. You’ll be

calling me by the telephone’

number indicated in Stadnyk’s
visiting card’. ‘Good,’ I said,
‘Cliff is retired at 40. But why do I
have to change names? There are’
bank accounts in Dzuba’s name
and a lot of papers issued.’

““*You just have to change
names’, he said peremptorily.
‘Dzuba is known to the CIA and
services of other countries. CIA
guys ruin one business after
another. If you happen to be in the
U.S., by no means try to contact
us through them. Forget all that
Bill told you about the CIA. As to
the papers and bank accounts,
what sort of problem is that?’

‘‘As he said it, Quilly took out
of his pocket a stack of papers and
sorted them out to reveal a Cana-
dian passport with my photo-
graph, issued to Gerald Stadnyk.
I was feverishly figuring out the
line of action to take while Quilly,
looking at me haughtily, dished
out more and more papers: a
Canadian bank’s credit card, a let-
ter notifying the opening of an ac-
count, an insurance card already
in ‘my’ new name.

On Behalf of Husky

“The visiting card handed to

me for contact bore the

trade name of Husky, one of
Canada’s biggest companies in its
line.

*‘Quilly was talking about my
powers and rights to act on behalf
of Husky, and gave me a new
assignment. He handed me a list
with hand-written questions:

‘*1) The set-up and description
of Soyuzzagranpostavka and
your place in this organization. ©

‘*2) The direction of activity
and the interests of Soyuzzagran-
postavka in Canada.

‘*3) The particular persons
working as Soyuzzagranpostavka
agents in Canada and their in-
terests.

‘*4) What Soviet enterprises of
a defence character are the clients
of Soyuzzagranpostavka? Their
whereabouts and mail addresses.

“*5) The names of the mana-
gers of these enterprises and a
characterization of them.

‘*6 Changes in the personnel or
directions of the work of any min-
istry which may have an effect on
North America and, consequent-
ly, on Canada.

‘*7). The. requirements _ of

specific Soviet ministries in the —

equipment purchased by Soyuz-
zagranpostavka for the fulfilment
of the Soviet space program.

‘*8) The nature of requests re-
ceived by Soyuzzagranpostavka
from ministries engaged in the
production of military output.
Types of this output, and so on.
(The questions are retranslated
from Russian).

“‘That was a long list of ques-
tions. Next to it, one more en-
velope with dollars. Quilly said
that he would prepare another list
of questions, in which they were
especially interested, for our next
meeting. The price-tag on each
question ranged from $100 to
many thousands of dollars and
were written down next to them.”’

* * *

Alexei Martynov’s story gave —

me much food for thought.

The RCMP’s reputation has
been badly damaged by a succes-
sion of scandals. The interna-
tional community has learned
about the facts of shadowing of
prominent politicians and public
figures and about secret files kept
on them. The RCMP has been re-
ported to be installing bugging de-
vices on business premises and in
private Canadian homes.

This is not the first time that.a
close link-up of the RCMP and the
CIA has come to light. The world
press provided quite an insight
into the spying functions of Cana-
dian representatives on the Inter-
national Supervision and Control
Commission in Vietnam who re-
ported to the Americans about the
results of the barbarous bombings
of North Vietnam by the U.S.-Air
Force.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—May 26, 1978—Page 7