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JIM THOM, Proprietor

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KITIMAT, B.C.

The Germans never suspected that
their agent from the submarine had
gone over to the Allies. Radio con-
tact with Hamburg yielded some valu-
able information about the methods
of German espionage. But after a year,
intelligence authorities decided that
the double-agent trick had outlived
its usefulness, and they closed the
station down.

One of the greatest difficulties
about the operation was keeping it
hidden from the neighbors. The agent
was staying with a German family
who spoke with thick accents. This
fact in itself aroused the suspicion of
people around. But it was thought
necessary to keep him in a German
family, so as to free him from tension
as much as possible and preserve his
normal style of wireless sending. A
wireless operator’s style is as indi-
vidual as handwriting. Any change
would have been noticed in Hamburg.

The agent was under observation
by two R.C.M.P. guards in civilian
clothes, day and night. The sight of
strangers coming and going, and a
50-foot radio mast rising above a
house in Mount Royal, started the
neighbors whispering. The powerful
radio transmitter interfered with their
radios.

To soothe them, police spread the
word that secret radio experiments
were under way in that house, in the
cause of national defence. The whole
truth never leaked out.

Joined Force as Youngster

Wartime work was a source of satis-
faction to C. W. Harvison. Born in
Montreal in 1902, raised in Hamilton,
Ontario, he was just too young for
the 1914-18 war. He felt cheated. The
Royal Northwest Mounted Police (as

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it was called then) seemed to offer a
prospect of adventure in peacetime.
Clifford Harvison stretched his age
by a year (he was only 17; minimum
age was 18) and joined the Mounted
at Regina in 1919.

He is one of three men still
serving who joined the force
when it was the R.N.W.M.P.

Formerly the jurisdiction of the
force had ended at Fort William. But
in March, 1920, the force amalga-
mated with the Dominion Police and
extended its area. The young C. W.
Harvison happened to be a member
of the first squadron transferred to
Eastern Canada.

Narcotic Squad

After further training in Ottawa
and a few months in Quebec and
Halifax, he was transferred to Mon-
treal at the time when a new narcotic
drug act had come into force, and the
R.C.M.P. had been given the respon-
sibility of enforcing it.

The drug traffic was wide open.
Unwary pushers — handling cocaine
and opium, the most-used drugs of the
day—were sitting ducks for the law.

Six men on the Montreal drug
squad, including Clifford Harvison,
averaged 250 arrests a month. A
“deck” of cocaine—containing about
the same quantity of the drug as the
modern “cap” —cost the addict 35
cents. Today it would cost about $8.

Better Business Work

GC. W. Harvison left the R.C.M.P.
for a time in 1923 and joined the
investigation branch of Montreal’s
better business bureau. There he
handled a variety of tasks—keeping
an eye on fraudulent stock salesmen,
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