Intrepid's Last Case by William Stevenson

Author:William Stevenson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510729186
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2017-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

Thirteen alleged spies were picked up by Canadian counterintelligence officers early on February 15.*

For the first time since Ambassador Zarubin had gone hunting through the night for Gouzenko in Ottawa, an official summons was sent to the Soviet embassy: Would the ambassador’s stand-in please report to the Canadian prime minister’s office?

Action in other fields was timed precisely to coincide with King’s belated move. In London, a decision had been taken to haul in PRIMROSE “for a chat” with the most dangerous of professional interrogators, William “Jim” Skardon, and the first confrontation took place on this day. That afternoon, the thirteen arrests were confirmed. By evening, the Gouzenkos had been transferred to another protected area, from where Igor could give his first oral testimony to public commissioners. The efficiency of the police services did not counterbalance Mackenzie King’s alarm, which was entirely due to the fact that the Russians had never replaced their ambassador. Such Soviet diplomatic inaction amounted to a form of moral blackmail of King, who was forever in a stew about provoking Stalin’s displeasure. He would have been surprised to learn that Moscow Center already had a description of Skardon’s formidable interrogatory powers, now being applied to PRIMROSE.

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