HST 540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Patrice Lumumba, Missile Gap, Chief Operating Officer
11 May 2016
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Operation casey jones- ariel over russian as allies. Don"t run the risk of a plausible deniability. Cultivated the spies over long periods of time. Dual effect was that they could cause deep panic if they were found out. If it"s happening in canada then it"s happening in the us too. Russians want the science behind the bomb and the tech dimensions of how to build the bomb. Russians went after lower level men, people who worked in factories creating shell casings. Loved canada, wouldn"t last in russia after living in the west. Decides to defect but writes a book about how the russians were spying in. Gouzenko"s revelations confirm suspicions about a larger spy network working in. He tries to defect to the newspaper and the ther police. They only truly believe him when they see that his house was broken into. Government tries to keep his revelation quiet but the revelations enter canadian and us newspapers.
