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British spy tale about Cold War defection sheds new light on Canadian mole hunt
- New evidence suggests Soviet defector Vasili Kuzichkin helped Canada investigate a mole who passed secrets to Russian intelligence.
- Kuzichkin reportedly alerted Canadian officials to a high-ranking RCMP traitor, leading investigators to focus on former Mountie Gilles Brunet.
- British officials told the RCMP in August 1982 that a top-level defector had identified a KGB mole, code-named NIKON, in Canada’s police force.
- A 1987 CSIS report said the agency was satisfied that Brunet had been recruited by Soviet intelligence.
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British spy tale about Cold War defection sheds new light on Canadian mole hunt
OTTAWA - There is new evidence that a Soviet spy who defected to Britain in the early 1980s played a key role in helping Canada unravel the mystery of a mole who passed secrets to Russian intelligence.
·Winnipeg, Canada
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