A Canadian CIA? Why We Need a Foreign Spy Agency

A Canadian CIA? Why We Need a Foreign Spy Agency

In 1945, Sir William Stephenson was back in Ottawa, fresh from running Britain’s spy station in New York, where he had coordinated Allied espionage efforts. He arrived at a moment of national shock: Igor Gouzenko, a clerk at the local Soviet embassy, had defected, carrying with him more than 100 secret documents tucked under his shirt. The files revealed a vast Soviet spy network working to infiltrate Western governments and steal nuclear secret…