Canada and the STIB Shell for Nuclear Intelligence
A municipal transport company in Brussels became a blind for atomic intelligence, kept secret in the files of the UK Ministry of Defence for decades.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Canada
Sergei Koudriavtsev Ran a Soviet Spy Ring From Ottawa
A First Secretary in Ottawa leveraged diplomatic cover to coordinate Soviet intelligence operations until a defector broke the circle, leaving a trail of suspicions in UK security files.
By Harlan Pryce ·
US and Canadian troops fought -50 degree cold to block Soviet Arctic access
A 336-page report from 1946 details the brutal cost of pushing men and machines 3,200 miles across the barren grounds to secure a frontier once ignored by the military.
By Vera Kessler ·
Igor Gouzenko handed over a map of Soviet spies in 1945
One Soviet officer’s flight from the embassy in Ottawa ended the illusion of the wartime alliance and exposed a network of moles hunting Western military secrets.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Air Force spent 17 years filing UFOs with pipelines in Canadian records
UFO sightings remained embedded in routine diplomatic records for decades, treated by the military as mundane logistics alongside Canadian pipelines and defense policy.
By June Hargrove ·
Soviet clerk Igor Gouzenko delivered 109 documents on Soviet espionage
Soviet agents leveraged diplomatic cover to manage assets in Canada until a cipher clerk defected in 1945, exposing the network that targeted military and scientific secrets.
By Constance Bell ·