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KEFLV TO OK AODRESSED TO:
THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE
FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
OTTAWA

CANADA

De a r Commis s ione r Wood,

I am enclosing copy of a translation of"N ote’ (q % &gt;o
in
N o.33, dated Septem ber 7/th, from the Em bassy of the
I should be glad to,| receive a report from you on inform a- '
tion in your possession respecting the incidents referred
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to in this note w hich w ould enable m e to reply to i
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U nder-Secretary of State
for External Affairs.

C om m issioner S.T. tfood,
R oyal C anadian M ounted Police,
O ttaw a.

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‘Translation of N ote N o.35 of Sept.7th from the Em bassy of the U .S.5.~;.
The Em bassy of the U .S.S.R .in C anada presses i
ts com plem ents
and has the honour to inform the D epartm ent of External Affairs
of the follow ing:
A colleague of the Em bassy,Igor Sergeievitch G usenko,living
at 511 Som erset St., failed to report for w ork at the proper tim e on
the 6th. Septem ber.
In connection w ith this and for the purpose of clarifying
the reasons for the failure of I.G usenkofs reporting for w ork,
C onsul V*G .Pavloff and tw o other colleagues of the Em bassy cvisited ;
the apartm ent of I.G usenko at 11.30 on the 6th.Sept.
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W hen M r,.Pavloff knocked at the door of G usenso1s apartm ent
no-one answ ered. After this the apartm ent w as opened by the abovem entioned colleagues of the Em bassy w ith G usenkofs duplicate key,
w hen i
tw as discovered that neither G usenko,nor his w ife ‘Svetliana
Borisovna G usenko, nor their son Andrei, w ere in the apartm ent.

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t was later established that I.G usenko robbed som e
m oney belonging to the Em bassy and had hidden him self together w ith
his fam ily.
At the tim e w hen C onsul Pavloff and the tw o other coll- eagues of the Em bassy w ere in G usenko's apartm ent, i
.e. about 11.30 p.m .
" C onstable* W qp.sh of the O ttaw a C ity Police appeared together w ith
•aw ^enother policem an and tried w ith a rude m anner to detain the
• ^liplom atlc colleagues of the Em bassy, in.spite of explanations
given by C onsul Pavloff and.the show ing of diplom atic cards.
As a result of the protest expressed by M r.Pavloff,
W alsh called Inspector of the -C ity ,P61ice M acdonald, w ho
appears . at the G usenko apartm ent 4n '
fifteen m inutes, and also
1 in a rude m anner dem anded'that;,:C on8ul"oY.G ^Pavloff and the
other diplom atic colleagues of/.the .Em bassy-^ w ith him to the
Police Station,refusing to recognize^the^diplom atic card shown
by C onsul Pavloff.
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U pon th6 refusalof M r.VP3.Pavloff-to go to the Police
Station, M r.M acdonald w ent aw ay, leaving a police-m an in the G usenko
V apartm ent w ith the colleagues of the Em bassy,“for the. alleged
purpose of finding out w ho i
tw as w ho had notified the polioe of
^the "forced entry" (lit."breaking the door") into the G usenko
/apartm ent.
C onsul V.G .Pavloff and the other tw o colleagues of the
Em bassy,after w aiting for M r.M acdonald to return for 15 m inutes,
left,having locked the G usenko apartm ent.
The Em bassy of the U .3.S.R . asks the D ept.of External
Affairs to take urgent m easures to seek and arrest I.G usenko and
to hand him over for deportation, as a capital crim inal,w ho has
stolen m oney belonging to the Em bassy.
In addition the Em bassy brings to the attention of the
D epartm ent of External Affairs the rude treatm ent accorded to
the diplom atic colleagues of the Em bassy by C onstable W alsh and
,the C ity Polioe M acdonald, and expresses i
ts confidence
\A ^ w hat/the ,D epartm ent w i
l
linvestigate this incident and w i
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lm ake
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those gui
lty answ erable for thei
r actions. (•
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v/'The.Em bassy asks the D epartm ent that i
tshould he
inform ed'-oX -aotioiKtaken in relation to the above.
O ttaw a, 7th Sept.,1945

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