Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell, "'PS: Burn after Reading': The Kellock-Taschereau Commission and Soviet Espionage" (U Toronto Press, 2026)

After

Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko defected in 1945, Canada was shocked

by the revelation that its own citizens were engaged in espionage for

the Soviet Union. "P.S. Burn after Reading": The Kellock-Taschereau Commission and Soviet Espionage in Canada

(University of Toronto Press, 2026) explores how the Canadian

government used the controversial Kellock-Taschereau

Commission—sometimes judiciously, sometimes not—to uncover and thwart

domestic

spies during the early days of the Cold War.

Drawing

on a wealth of sources, including the Commission’s extensive records,

GRU documents turned over by Gouzenko, American Venona decrypts, Soviet