Word: jamieson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Andrew Jamieson Fargo...
Announcing the expulsion to the House of Commons, Donald Jamieson, Secretary of State for External Affairs, said that an unnamed Mountie was approached in early 1977 by two Soviet diplomats (one of whom he knew from a previous assignment). The officer was offered "an unlimited sum of money" to provide profiles of his R.C.M.P. colleagues and information about the force's counterespionage operations...
...Mountie immediately told his superiors about the offer. He was instructed to take the money, turn it over to the government and, according to Jamieson, begin passing "carefully screened nonsensitive information or completely fabricated material" to his KGB contact. The contact was Igor Vartanian, who as First Secretary for Sports and Cultural Affairs at the Soviet mission in Ottawa traveled widely around the country, especially in connection with the annual Canada-U.S.S.R. hockey matches...
...well. One day in Wisconsin, Ford reached the punch line of his basic speech ("A Government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take from you everything you have"), and the press corps began chanting loudly along with him. Explains NBC Correspondent Bob Jamieson: "The eye-glaze factor begins about the same time each...
...problems, Trudeau bumped out two party veterans and added seven new faces, including two women. External Affairs Minister Allan MacEachen, a skillful party tactician, was transferred back to lead the currently disorganized Liberals in Parliament. In MacEachen's place, Trudeau appointed a rotund, voluble Newfoundlander named Donald Jamieson. His diplomatic experience is scant (his last post was Minister for Industry, Trade and Commerce), but Jamieson's known affection for the U.S. promises an improvement in the tone, at least, of U.S.-Canadian relations...