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Something I'm not seeing a lot of mention of was the fact that the Canadian aerospace program was absolutely riddled with Soviet spies. I don't have references
by aerostable_slug 6y ago
Something I'm not seeing a lot of mention of was the fact that the Canadian aerospace program was absolutely riddled with Soviet spies.
I don't have references in front of me unfortunately, but if you choose to believe me, a good amount of the American resistance to the Arrow program had to do with direct technology transfer to the Soviet Union via their thorough penetration of the Canadian aerospace program. The Arrow represented a conduit of American aerospace knowledge directly to the Soviets, and had to be stopped.
- stevofolife 6y agoSource please
- aerostable_slug 6y agoBut until then his assignment was to become Soboloff so convincingly that nobody would ever suspect he was a Soviet spy. Eventually, he was given responsibility for managing five recruited agents, including a Communist Party of Canada member from Toronto who worked for the company developing the Avro Arrow and provided its engineering schematics to the KGB. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-spy-named-gideon-book-tells-story-of-russian-illegal-sent-to-canada-and-betrayed https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-spy-named-gideon-bo... That said, as noted I don't have references I can share for what I learned. Believe it or not.