About The Book Entering the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1960 with visions of rural police duties, highway patrol or perhaps plain clothes detective work, I ended up in an unanticipated place, completely foreign to my expectations. In 1964, I was inducted into the obscure and secretive world of subversion and counter-espionage investigations. One of the first books I was instructed to read was: The Theory and Practice of Communism, hardly the stuff I was interested in. I didn"t know much about the Security and Intelligence Branch and I had a lot to learn about Communists, the Reds, Lenin"s Lads or whatever they called them. Previously, my closest encounter with anything related to communism was the Cold War bomb shelter at my first Detachment; a Soviet diplomat, driving a Cadillac that I stopped for speeding; and, massive United States troop movements I observed in Los Angeles at the height of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. That showdown between U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was probably the closest the World has ever come to all-out nuclear war. That event and the ever-present threats posed by the Cold War convinced me I needed to get serious about the work I was about to embark upon. Unexpectedly propelled into Hong Kong in 1968, on the underbelly of Mao, Tse-tung"s Chinese Communist dragon, while war raged in nearby Vietnam, it was an awakening to the realities of communism in South East Asia. The intensity of Mao"s political rhetoric and propaganda spilled over into Hong Kong and took advantage of labour disputes creating politically inspired demonstrations and riots. Known as the 1967 disturbances, fear for the future of Hong Kong and of the brutality of the communists to the North, Hong Kong residents and escapees from China, in their hundreds, appeared at the Commission for Canada seeking refuge in Canada. Included was Mao, Tse-tung"s arch rival, Chang, Kuo-tao, the first Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. Chang was the only member of the Party to personally meet Lenin in Moscow. Now he was meeting with me and wanted my blessing. Thus began a career in Canada"s Chinese Counter-espionage program. China exploded onto the Canadian scene when Canada recognized the People"s Republic of China in October 1970. The Chinese were out to catch up with the Western World, to bring China out of its inward-thinking "Middle Kingdom" outlook as proclaimed by the country"s name. They were looking to bring China to the centre of the universe and their Four Modernizations campaign was at the root of their intelligence-gathering initiatives. The Chinese invasion of technical, trade and other delegations operated on the principle of take, take and take with little give in return. Naïve Canadian businesses found themselves vacuumed up in the process and left with nothing more than frustration. China was putting to use the philosophies of Sun, Tze, the ancient philosopher warrior, who proclaimed, "Spies are useful everywhere" and that "no matter is more secret than espionage." In a time of critical need to address these issues, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Security Service was plunged into the darkness of the McDonald Commission of Inquiry Concerning Certain Activities of the R.C.M.P. The Commission