FRED ROSE, A CANADIAN JAILED AS SOVIET SPY, DIES IN POLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605580002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 18, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICI A ZU
NEW YORK TIMES
18 MARCH 1983
Fred Rose, a Canadian Jailed
As.Soviet Spy, Dies in Poland
WARSAW, March 17 (AP) - Fred
Rose, a Communist member of the
Canadian parliament who,' was con-
victedof spying for Moscow,'has died in
a Warsaw hospital, his wife said today.
Hewas78yearsold.
Doctors did not disclose the cause of
Mr. Rose's death Wednesday, a family
friend in Montreal said, and his widow
and daughter have not decided whether
he will be buried in Canada or in Po-
land, where he was born Fred Rosen.
burg in 1907.,, .
Mr. Rose was arrested in March 1948:
and sentenced to six years in prison for
his espionage activities, which included
reporting to Moscow on a secret war-
time session of the Canadian Parlia-
ment in. 1844. He automatically lost his
seat in Parliament when convicted..
He left Canada after serving four and
a half years of his sentence, moving to
Czechoslovakia and later to Poland. His
Canadian citizenship. was revoked in
1957.
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