Canada: THE DOMINION: Instructions from Moscow

Canada's Government got down to chapter & verse with its spy melodrama. This week in a nine-page, 3,000-word report, released after three weeks of rigidly secret investigation, it: 1) bluntly accused three Canadians and one British subject of giving Government secrets to Russia; 2) unfolded the details of Russian espionage in Canada. In an Allied world already jittery over Russia, the report was not calculated to lull suspicions and fears. Said the report:

"The evidence establishes that a network of [spies] had been organized ... for the purpose of obtaining secret and confidential information. ... These operations were carried on...

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