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| Edward Mazerall |
 Edward Mazerall was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1916. He had a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and worked for the Canadian Westinghouse Company, the Canadian Broadcasting Company and, finally, was employed with the National Research Council at the he was detained. Most of the information he passed on to the Soviets (through Gordon Lunan) was based on Research and Development work on radio sets. Mazerall later claimed that he only passed on scientific information to Lunan that had already been made public and he did so in the hope of increasing scientific cooperation between East and West. Mazerall admitted that he passed on confidential information to Lunan. He was subsequently found guilty for conspiracy to violate the Official Secrets Act and was sentenced to four years in prison. |
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