RED SPY NEST FOUND FLOURISHING IN CANADA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400410020-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: March 29, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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By ROBERT JONES
Special Writer
recently made a brazen at-
tempt, to.. grab United States
atomic secrets - but, ap-
parently nobody can do any-
thing ;about it.
Ottawa, t h e Canadian
capital, scene 'of a 1946 spy
scandal involving thG,'Soviet
Embassy, is again head-
quarters of an espionage
ring aimed at the??U:S. and
Latin America. But jurisdic-
tional limitations apparently
prevent any action by either
Canadian or Am e'>i i_c a n
authorities. '
THE ROYAL Canadian
Mounted Police has suspected
the existence of the ring for
:,lore than three years. How-
ever, the Mounties can't
prove that the suspected
spies are violating Canadian
law.
'he suspects are kept?
under nominal surveillance
and are occasionally. picked
up for questioning. No ar-
rests have been made.
The U.S. Army's Counter-'I
Intelligence Corps has more
direct knowledge of the
Ottawa group's interest in j
the Army's atomic secrets.
But the CIC can do nothing.
Foreign spy rings are beyond
its jurisdiction. - . ,
Agents of the Federate caught the eye of the
Bureau of Investigation arel
equally helpless. ' The FBI Mounties when it was noted
{ that the affairs included two
collaborates closely with the
RCMP but the ,,bureau is
forbidden by.Iaw to operate
outside thg U.S.
So one of the most bizar__1
spy rings on record is' ap-
parently free to conduct its
own very special brand of
uninhibited espionage.
rather unlikely types of par-
ticipants: scientists working
in Canada's top-secret, Na-
tional Research Council -
and Soviet Embassy person-
nel, particularly the Soviet
Embassy military attache.
The attache, an army
colonel, was carefully culti-
The group consists of al vating relations with the
clique of Latin Americans, l scientists and their wives.
Europeans and Africans who t What subsequent investiga-
belong to a semi-private Ot- I flop .revealed is not clear.
tawa night club, the Coral In November, 1963, an
Reef Club. American soldier of fortune,
Leader of the clique and Edmund Kolby. turned up.it't
former manager of the club Ottawa to visit his fiancee,
is a bearded exile from the Cleotilde Nicholai, a Canad-
tiny Central: American repub ian government employe.
lie of El Salvador. He is Wil-;' Kolby was introduced to
Liam Quintero, better known Quintero at . the Coral Reef
as "Willy." , flub. The two became friend.;
Willy has never made any
secret of his ambitions to/ QUINTERO was interested
foment a Castro-type tevolu in Kolby's background.
tion in his homeland, to,, be', A Korean War veteran,
followed Eby the armed! Kolby had served six years
"liberation of all Central; in the U.S. Army's Rangers;,
America.. The bearded exile' paratroops and S p e c i a1
has also long hinted that he, Forces.
has the backing of mysterious; Over rounds' of drinks at
but powerful sponsors. the Coral, Reef, the American
BUVI" WILLY was better veteran admitted to his new
known for his prowess with a friend that his Special Forces
bottle at an endless series of security clearance bad been
lifted because of his activities
sem
held i ii-n Ottawa ~ awa house
and in cot= in cot with ?. Caribbean,. revolution
O'~.
to es outside of town
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