Counted 20,000 Subversives

The Privy Council in a newly-declassified 1968 memo estimated Soviet sympathizers and Cold War subversives in Canada far outnumbered actual Communist Party members. The memo named one university, five unions and the United Church as key targets for subversion: “The Communist movement in Canada consists of some 20,000 persons.”

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