Taschereau robert et al (4 risultati)

PAPERBACK. Condizione: Good. 1st edition. 733pp, octavo, clean throughout, creases to spine, secure page block, worn wraps with toned edges, "x" in marker to upper left corner of back cover. June 27, 1946.

Condizione: fair, ex-lib. 733, wraps, appendices, covers & spine worn & soiled: sm tears, sm pieces missing, library stamps & pocket, sm tears to rear flylf. Library call number on spine. This Royal Commission was appointed "to investigate the facts relating to and the circumstances surrounding the communication, by public officials and other persons in positions of trust of secret and confidential information to agents of a foreign power.".…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. 733 pages. Numerous pertinent and interesting news clippings laid-in. "It was Igor Gouzenko who revealed the existence in Canada of a wide-spread conspiracy to obtain secret official information. He has been a most informative witness and has revealed to us the existence of a conspiratorial organization operating in Canada and other countries. He has not only told us the names and cover names of the organizers, the names of many of the Canadians who were caught 'in the net' and who acted here as agents, but he has also exposed much of the set-up of the organization as well as its aims and methods here and abroad." - Introduction. Unmarked with average wear to blue card covers. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this fascinating and comprehensive Canadian cold war investigation report. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

First Canadian Edition. Octavo. 25.5cm. Institutional heavy black cloth with red leather title label, original blue paper wraps bound in. 733pp. Strong and solid, with some isolated very light wear and soiling; internally clean with some light wear to the extremities of the original wraps. A very good, handsome copy. An exhaustive legal report on the Gouzenko investigation itself, the surrounding context and histories, and a detailed assessment of the consequences of other such acts of espionage going unchecked. Igor Gouzenko, a cypher clerk for the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, defected two days after the end of WW2 to Canada, with a sheaf of documents detailing the USSR's espionage network in the West. Gouzenko's revealing of Russia's nuclear espionage agenda in particular is credited as being the catalyst for the disasterous global intelligence chess game that became known as The Cold War.…