Evening star., 1946-03-24
Reds After Atom Data
In Canada Year Ago,
Documents Disclose
BY tho Assoeioted Pres,

MONTREAL. Mar. 23.-Soviet
agents were on the trail of Can
ada's atomic energy secrets al
least five months before the
world first heard of the atomic
bomb last August, according tc
evidence submitted by the gov
ernment in its spy trials today
Special Prosecutor F. Philippe
Brais submitted for the first time
documents purpotedly stolen from
the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, docu-
ments which form the backbone of
the governments case against its
employees and others accused of con-
spring to give Russia scientific and
other wartime secrets to the detri-
ment of the safety of their own
country.
Ordered Report on Atom Work.
According to these documents:
l. Soviet agents as early as March
%, 1945, knew of Canada's work on
atomic energy and were instructing
their Canadian cooperators to report
on it.
2. Canadian members of the es-
pionage network accepted money for
their services.
3. The Canadians were given
orders through the Soviet embassy
IN Ottawa to get specific informa-
tlon on certain phases of Canada s
secret research as we'll as to supply
general information. Among the in
ventions sought was "a radar device
for use in the Pacific" and new ex-
plosive propellant, algonite, in which
"the Americans are said to be very
Interested"
4. Many of the meetings between
the Soviet agents and the Canadians
were held at night on street corners
in Ottawa, the Canadian capital,
with the Russians paying taxicab
fares for those who lived far away.
The Canadians were instructed spe-
clflcally not to take the cabs all
the way to the rendezvous.
Rose Accused of Obtaining Data.
S. The Russians ordered and had
printed in a government publication
an article on THE Conflict between
Parties" in last summers dominion
general election.
6. "The Director" heretofore iden-
titled only in this way, the guiding
hand in Moscow of the spy opera
tions here, was "the chief of the
First Intelligence Headquarters" in
the Soviet capital.
7. Fred Rose, Communist member
OF Parliament accused as a con-
spirator and the man directly on
trial in today's hearing, obtained
data from conversations with off,
GERS on the western front"
8. Moscow was directly interested
In the success of Communist Canad-
ians in Canadian elections, running
on the ticket of the Labor Progress
sive party.
The documents were identified by
Igor Gouzenko, young former code
clerk who fled the Soviet Embassy
last September, allegedly taking the
papers from file in the safe in
steel-protected secret room of the
embassy.
Rose Linked to Recruitment.
Those submitted today dealt
chiefly with Capt. Gordon Lunan of
the Canadian Army, who was on
loan to the government wartime in
formation board, and whom Rose is
alleged to have recruited" for the
spy ring.
Capt. Lunan, in turn, according to
the testimony, directed the opera
tions of Edward Mazerall, an engi-
neer on the National Research
Council, government scientific body;
Isidor Halperin, a mathematics pro-
fessor at Queens University in|
Kingston, Ontario, and one Duruford
Smith, described only as a govern
ment war scientist
Mazeran and Lunan are them
selves awaiting trial. Halperin and
Smith have not been named by the
Royal Commission investigating the
spy operations
Most of the documents ready to-
day were letters allegedly exchanged
between Lunan and two assistant
military attaches of the Ottawa
embassy, 1t. Coils. Rogov and