The Canadian Magazine, syn-
dicated in most daily newspa-
pers, for two weeks has carried
a story of supposed espionage
and subversion written, it is
claimed, by retiring RCMP Com-
missioner William H. Kelly. The
Canadian Magazine is quite evi-
dently being used in a large-
scale attempt to revive the
“cold war.”

Ex-Commissioner Kelly repre-
sents one of the biggest crime
Syndicates in Canada: the anti-
Communist racket. This cheap
fabrication is aimed at heading
off the rising tide of social ‘pro-
test, at dividing the working
class, farm and reform move-
ments, at diverting the peace
movements, and so forth.

Why does the capitalist press,
from time to time, print articles
designed to torpedo movements
for reform, and to descredit the
people connected with them?

The capitalist “free press” is
attempting to scare and intimi-
date the people, and their move-
ments for social reform. The
capitalist press has done nothing
to get the U.S. imperialists,
charged with genocide in Viet-
nam, into the dock.

The remarkable similarity be-
tween the dirty job the RCMP’s
Kelly does, and the role of the
FBI’s Hoover, confirms that the
FBI and CIA not only operate in
sCanada, but also influence the
strategy and tactics employed by
the RCMP.

Kelly’s story follows hard on
the heels of a press interview
given by RCMP Commissioner
William Higgit, in which he pub-
licly instructs Canada’s parlia-
ment to go easy on recognizing
the Chinese People’s Republic;
and a press story that the newly
appointed director-general of
Security and Intelligence has the
express job of “shaking up the
RCMP,” and tightening up its

security efforts, particularly with
respect to Quebec.

Kelly trotted out assertions,
which have been discredited long
since, that,there was a “‘spy ring
in Canada in 1945, exposed by
Igor Gouzenko, which showed a
definite link with the Commu-
nist Party.” The government pre-
tended that Gouzenko’s story
proved that the Communist

-Party is guilty of espionage.

Kelly also claims that even the
U.S.S.R.’s Dynamo soccer team
is made up of secret agents!

He trots out the threadbare
claim that the Communist Party
of Canada is financed by the
U.S.S.R. Ex-Commissioner Kelly
is careful to avoid any reference
to the fact that, in the trials un-
der the discredited Section 98,
the Crown and the capitalist
press started out with a similar
claim, but under the weight of
the evidence, the Crown Pro-
secutor was compelled to dis-
avow the assertion.

There has never been a case
in the 49-year-history of the
Communist Party of Canada of
its ever having been charged
with such a violation of the law.
It is a fabrication by the ene-
mies Of the working class.

There is no such thing as a
Communist conspiracy. The Com-
munist Party represents a legi-
timate movement for social
change. SS

The main basis for the charge
that the Communist Party is
linked to espionage is the case
of Fred Rose, a former Commu-
nist MP. A _ doctor, Raymond
Boyer, was alleged to have trans-
mitted the formula for manu-
facturing R.D.X., an explosive,
to Fred Rose in 1945, concerning
which the McCarthyites concoc-
ted a whole legend at that-time
that he had transmitted these so-
called “secrets” to the U.S.S.R.
He wasn’t convicted on that
charge.

It transpired at the trial that
full information as to the manu-
facture and use of RDX had
been made public on several oc-
casions before. The detailed for-
mula for its manufacture had
been published in full in a scien-
tific journal in the United States.
Its manufacture, during World
War II, took place in a factory
involving hundreds of workers
who had knowledge of its in-
gredients.

Dr. Boyer was finally convic-
ted on the technicality that he
had discussed something with

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Fred Rose—R.D.X.—that was
classified as ‘‘secret” and was,
therefore, “technically guilty” of
violating the-law.

In June 1946 Fred Rose was
tried and sentenced. After he
had been sent to jail, a Royal
Commission admitted that he
had never done anything wrong.

Fantastic as this may sound,
this is the actual case, well
known to Canadian officialdom
and to the RCMP.

THE ATOM
SPY HOAX
REBORN

The background to Canada’s
so-called atom spy plot took
place in 1946, showing all the
earmarks of having been care-
fully arranged. Two-and-a-half
weeks before Winston Chur-
chill’s speech, which ushered in
the ‘cold war,” at Fulton, Mis-
souri, in March 1946, the sensa-
sational story was broken that a
number of people had been de-
tained by the RCMP in Canada
as spies.

The Canadian government an-
nounced that “information of

undoubted authenticity has.

reached the Canadian govern-
ment which, establishes that
there had been disclosures of
secret and confidential informa-
tion to unauthorized persons, in-
cluding some members of the
staff of a foreign mission in Ot-
tawas 3’

Later events prove that gov-
ernment statement false. The
government went through the
motions of setting up a Royal
Commission, composed of two
judges. :

The Royal Commission claim-
ed that the revelations came
from a former clerk in the Soviet
Embassy at Ottawa, Igor Gou-
zenko, who had defected to
Canada. Thus an ertire foreign
policy for Canada as well as the
preparations for the right “at-
mosphere” in the United States,
which included the murder of
the Rosenbergs, were all based
on the uncorroborated and du-
bious evidence of a single ques-
tionable individual.

The Royal Commission, at one
point, went so far as to say that
“membership in Communist or-

ganizations, or sympathy to-
wards Communist ideologies,
was the primary force which
caused these agents to agree to
do the acts referred to in their
individual cases.”

Although this is an opinion—
a charge — it is unsubstantiated
by fact. The Commisioners’ re-
port contained the accusations.
The charges and corroboration
proved to be another matter.

The Royal Commission, claim-
ing that its charges were based
on documents Gouzenko had al-
legedly stolen from the Soviet
Embassy, never at any time said,
or even attempted to prove, that
those documents had anything
to with espionage—a peculiar
omission.

It is this opinion that, as it
were, puts the cap on how false
the government’s statements
were. =:

The Royal Commission was
compelled, later on, to change its
statements and to admit that
there had been no atomic spy-
ing. This was confirmed by Prime
Minister Mackenzie King, who
said, “This espionage business
has not arisen out of the atomic
bomb in any way .. .” :

That these moves were well
prepared is shown by the fact
that when this news broke, the
New York Times’ correspondent
in Ottawa said he could get
nothing but confusion from the

= government.-officials to whom he

spoke, but no less than 2,000
miles away, Major General Pat-
rick J. Hurley of the United
States said it was known before
the end of the war that there
had been a leak of atomic ener-
gy secrets to the Soviet Union.
The same day, the chairman
of the House Committee on Un-
American Activities, a commit-
tee that publishes unsubstantiat-
ed and uncorroborated anti-
Soviet materials as though they
were Official documents, said
that “a Communist spy ring had
been uncovered in Canada. .
and is working through various
Communist front organizations.”
At the same time Cyrus Sulz-

berger in the New York Times of :

March 21, 1946, said that “the

scare

momentum of pro-Soviet feél
worked up during the wat 4
support the Grand Alliance ha
continued too heavily after
armistice . . . For this reas
. . . a campaign. was. worked i
to obtain a better psychologi g
balance of public opinion to pel
mit the Government to adopt
harder line . . .” It was incons?”
quential to the capitalists ™
many lives they ruined, OF
many people they destroyed: i
John O'Neill, science editor”
the New York Herald Tribus
on March 24, 1946, characte!”
ized the Canadian governmé
anti-Communist forgery 45
farcical bit of diplomatic
foonery is being staged to Pf
ide apparent justification f0
military control group—a % i$
in Canada so ludicr
that it is a laugh to all but the
most gullible... .” A
One day before Churchill 4"
Truman appeared together
Fulton, the Royal Commis
publicly issued a statement
the effect that “a network of
dercover agents had been OFg*
ized and developed by members
of the staff of the Soviet
bassy at Ottawa under dil"
instructions from Moscow : ° ri
Churchill’s speech, plane
months ahead, contained ©
theme that the Soviet Unio
demonstrated bad'faith, that
hopes of cooperation in post
years had. been «dashed-
ground, and that the sharine
atomic information with
U.S.S.R. could not concei
be thought of—thus starting *
cold war, and a process of 4
mic blackmail of the soclé
camp.
This was the real reason ft
the spy scare. 6
Although Gouzenko listed ”
persons as spies, in 16 cases be
charges were finally found t El
unfounded. Gouzenko’s so-call@”
information did not provide
direct identification of a siné
one of the 26 accused pers?
nor of their actions. ~

For his services in this shady
affair, Gouzenko got a $10U"
month lifetime annuity.

Army recruiting hit

The Congress of Canadian
Women, Winnipeg Chapter, sent
the following letter of protest to
the Winnipeg School Board over
the signature of its acting secre-
tary, Mrs. A. Thorpe:

“We note with alarm press re-
ports that Guidance Department
heads in high schools are going
to take part in a tour of Cana-
dian Forces bases in western
Canada. We believe that this is
not in keeping with the purpose
for which guidance counselling
was established in our school
system. When guidance counsel-
ling was introduced it was a real
step forward calculated to make
the adjustment from school] leav-
ing to entry into work vacations
smoother and less painful for
the student. It was intended to
replace the old system of cast-
ing the children out of school to
sink or swim on their own. To

- introduce the concept of prepa-

ration for military careers is ©
trogressive. Many parents wo¥
be opposed to a military cate
for their children. They }
enough problems coping
outside influences on their ©
dren without having to ©
tend with undesirable influen¢
which could emanate from
judicious use of  informati
about such careers and wh
could become tantamount —
recruiting campaigns in
schools.

“In our modern society thé
are plenty of specialized J?
through which young people
be directed to peacetime care® i
which will help build a creatiY”
country. The Canadian Fore
are quite capable of handl!
their own publicity concern!
their training programs. We 4
opposed to guidance counsel?
disseminating such informati
in schools.”~