Anonymous ID: a22239 June 20, 2022, 6:12 a.m. No.16476978   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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In his version, the Soviet ambassador to Canada phoned then-prime minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau to complain about Bezmenovโ€™s Russian-language broadcasts. This led to a phone call from the prime minister to CBCโ€™s president and on down the chain until Bezmenov was fired on March 9, 1976, said Lucena.

โ€œHe was dismissed around five oโ€™clock and was told that, โ€˜Mr. Trudeau wants you out from his broadcasting from CBC,โ€™โ€ said Lucena, recounting her conversation with Bezmenov around that time. Bezmenov repeated a variation of this story during a 1984 documentary.

The Soviet ambassador to Canada in the mid โ€˜70s, Alexander Yakovlev, was reportedly a family friend of Trudeau, whose foreign policy approach to the Soviet Union often broke from that of the Americans.

The story put the Trudeau government in a delicate and potentially embarrassing spot. The story said Bezmenov, who was now a Canadian citizen, obtained a visa to enter the country with false papers. Federal officials quickly recognized the political danger in the implication that Bezmenov had lied on his citizenship form, according to a flurry of correspondence and memos in the wake of the report.