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SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION is never easy, especially since there are frequently several versions of “facts.”

What I have done here, to the best of my ability and through the use of footnotes, is to identify the facts of which we can be reasonably certain. The rest of the story—well—you decide!

Although this book is a work of fiction, it contains many historical facts. Nazi Germany’s genocidal plans for the Soviet Union during WWII and the atrocities in Minsk are well documented.

Documentation concerning the Cold War that followed is much more difficult to verify. Some of the stories we have come to believe may be true. Others may not. That, after all, is the nature of espionage!

Many mysteries remain unsolved concerning the spy world that surrounded atom bomb secrets and the Manhattan Project, not the least of which is the following very puzzling fact.

For 57 years, from 1893 when he was an 18-year-old student at the University of Toronto, until two days prior to his death in 1950, William Lyon Mackenzie King faithfully kept a very detailed daily diary of virtually every aspect of his life, including the time he spent as Canadian Prime Minister from 1921 to 1930, and again from 1935 to 1948. It is an incredible 30,000 pages.

On display now at Library and Archives Canada, the unedited King diaries reveal fascinating and often intimate details including his conversations with his dead mother. Incredibly, for all those 57 years, King did not miss a single day’s entry—except for one glaring exception: two entire months—November and December 1945 are mysteriously missing!*

*FACT: Mackenzie King’s diaries can be viewed at Library and Archives Canada or at www.CollectionsCanada.gc.ca, all 30,000 pages—except for those two missing months! The strangely missing entries are mentioned in one of the most definitive books available concerning the “Gouzenko Affair.” The book, entitled How the Cold War Began: The Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies is authored by American journalist Amy Knight and published November 2008 by McClelland & Stewart.

It was during those two months that the Cold War was launched with the reported defection of Igor Gouzenko in Ottawa. There has never been a plausible explanation for those missing pages. At least not until now!

Lowell Green, October 2009

Ottawa, Canada