Granatstein, J.L. and Stafford, David. Spy Wars: Espionage and Canada from Gouzenko to Glasnost. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1990. 276 pages.

Canada has been a minor player on the international intelligence scene, and this only to the extent that major players such as the U.S. and Britain allowed them a role at all. They have no military secrets in Canada, no active foreign-intelligence capability, and until recently their counter- intelligence was handled by Mounties who were trained on horses.

Still, there are stories to tell and this book concentrates on several of them: World War II hero Sir William Stephenson (debunked by the authors), defector Igor Gouzenko, Soviet spy Hugh Hambleton, deep-cover illegal Rudolph Herrmann, and victims of Canadian cold-war paranoia such as Leslie Bennett. Other chapters deal with the separatist movement (which was supported by Charles de Gaulle and private interests in France), "techno-espionage" (Soviet attempts to acquire technology), and the terrorist threat.

Although written in a highly-readable style, the authors are academics. J.L. Granatstein is a professor of history at York University in Toronto, and David Stafford is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, chair of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies, and executive director of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs.
ISBN 1-55013-258-X

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