chief of the criminal investigation
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The spy was a German who had
lived in Canada for some years. A
submarine landed him on the shore
of the Bay of Chaleur, in full naval
uniform. But he changed to civilian
clothes immediately afterward. A
hotel keeper at New Carlisle, Quebec,
became suspicious of him, and called
police.

The agent had a radio set and
$6,000 in cash. “Cliff’ Harvison and

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“Pete” Bordeleau were sent to in-
terrogate him at New Carlisle and
fetch him to Montreal.

For some time the man stubbornly
refused to talk. Supt. Bordeleau re-
members how his chief broke down
the spy’s resolve. Police officers know
that sometimes during interrogation
there comes a moment when a man
is on the point of confessing, but
dares not, because of shame. He needs
a “bridge for his conscience”’—some-
thing to justify him.

The agent’s $6,000 included gold,
$20 bills and $2,000 in the big old $2
bills which had been withdrawn from
circulation. Cliff Harvison picked up
one of the bills and examined it with
a critical eye. “Have you any enemies
in Germany?” he asked. The man
shook his head. Mr. Harvison talked
about something else, then returned
to the subject. He held a bill up to
the light. “Just look at that,” he said
in a tone of disgust, handing it to
“Pete” Bordeleau.

“T didn’t know what he had in
mind,” Supt. Bordeleau recalls. “So I
just said: “Tch, tch.’”

Then Mr. Harvison turned to the
spy and said: “If you have no bad
friends in Germany, how is it that
they supplied you with $2,000 in
counterfeit bills ?”

That was the bridge for conscience
that the spy needed: treachery at
home. He began to talk. Police per-
suaded him to become a double agent,
pretending to be a spy but in fact
working for the Allies.

They tried to reach his base in
Hamburg, using his equipment, but
couldn’t make radio contact. So they
put more power in his set and built a
50-foot radio mast.

The agent, working in co-operation
with Harvison and Bordeleau, talked
to Hamburg twice a day for a year.
The Mounted Police maintained close
liaison with British intelligence and
the intelligence departments of the
armed services; cautiously fed the Ger-
mans harmless information and in
return milked them for all the knowl
edge they dared.

Saboteur Roundup

The man from the submarine was
to have prepared the way for a num-

ber of other agents, but the scheme
never materialized. Nazi groups in
Canada were to have been the founda-
tion for an espionage and sabotage
network, but on the day war broke
out, R.C.M.P. rounded up 200 known
Nazis in Montreal alone. Many of
them had been under observation
since 1936.

Police also arrested a number of
Fascists, foreign-born ones and mem-
bers of Adrian Arcand’s home-grown
group. But Italy never landed an
agent in Canada.

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