Featherbed concluded the Federal Civil Service was riddled by Soviet-sympathizing 'agents of influence,' including four deputy ministers (Bob Reguly, Toronto Sun, 31 March 1981).
The AMTORG 'Trade Mission' in Montreal was run by an old Bolshevik by the name of Louis Kon.
In the late '20s and '30s, the Comintern (Communist International) sent hundreds of Red intellectuals, mostly from French-speaking countries (France, Belgium and Switzerland) to help in a massive infiltration project aimed at the civil service of Quebec and Ottawa.
Because of his previous experience as a translator-interpreter for the Canadian expeditionary force in Siberia in 1919, Louis Kon had been able to set up a network of Russian language translators/interpreters from Halifax to Vancouver, mainly in the large centres but also scattered in rural areas among the leftwing elements of the Doukhobors led by Moscow agents like the Verigins. The backbone of this Russian-speaking group was the Communist Party front, the Federation of Russian Canadians (FRC). The Russian language publication, Vestnik, was the official organ of the FRC.
