Cocktails With Communists

Newly-released Cold War files detail wry 1950s-era reports from Ottawa cocktail parties under a federal scheme to keep an eye on Communist diplomats. Accounts of vodka-laced banquets are detailed in declassified records published by Library & Archives Canada: “Russian cigarettes and chocolates were laid out everywhere”.

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