Fred Rose
"Of all the persons mentioned in the Russian documents as well as by the witnesses throughout this inquiry, none, Soviet officials excepted, have been more repeatedly and prominently mentioned, either under their names or cover-names, than Fred Rose and his fellow spy and conspirator, Sam Carr."  Thus read the first line of the espionage commission's final report in its chapter on Fred Rose. Rose was born in Lublin, Poland on 7 September 1907 and immigrated to Canada in 1920. As with Sam Carr, Rose traveled to Russia several times in the 1920s as a member of the Young Communist League.  The commission alleged that it was at this time that Rose and Carr were trained by the Soviets to recruit espionage agents in the West.  Rose was later elected to Parliament in 1943 as a member of the Labour Progressive Party from a Montreal riding and remains, to this day, the only candidate under the Communist Party's banner to be elected to Parliament in Canadian history. When brought before the commission, Rose refused to testify but was nevertheless convicted for conspiracy to violate the Official Secrets Act at trial. 
 

 

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