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Record W4323338029 · doi:10.1017/9781846156755.015

Proliferation

2008· other· en· W4323338029 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
David Burke

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIntelligence, Security, War Strategy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPrime ministerEspionageLawPrincipal (computer security)Political scienceHistoryPolitics

Abstract

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A t 8 p.m. on 5 September 1945 Igor Gouzenko, principal cipher clerk to Colonel Nikolai Zabotin, the military attaché at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, Canada, defected. Over the previous few weeks he had removed from the embassy a number of documents marked ‘Top secret. Burn after reading.’ In total there were more than a hundred carefully selected secret documents detailing a vast Soviet network operating in the United States and Canada, among them a member of the British high commissioner's staff, Kathleen Wilsher, codenamed ‘Ellie’. The British high commissioner, Malcolm MacDonald, was informed of the case and it was decided that Ellie should be placed under observation. MacDonald then agreed to serve on a small informal committee made up of Canadian intelligence officers, the Canadian Prime Minister, Mackenzie King, and the Canadian Permanent Secretary for External Affairs, Norman Robertson, to investigate the extent of Soviet espionage in Canada. MacDonald's membership of this committee was regarded as essential, since Mackenzie King ‘wished to share all the secrets with his colleagues in London’. As more and more of the Gouzenko material was translated it became clear that the reach of the Soviet spy networks in the US and Canada was bigger than had first been anticipated and included the Canadian National Research Council. Within the first few days of Gouzenko's defection four agents working for the council were exposed as spies. These were Durnford Smith, E. W. Mazerall, Dr Raymond Boyer and a fourth agent identified only by his codename ‘Alek’, known to be closely associated with the manufacture of the atomic bomb. There was also a fifth man, Israel Halperin, whose level of involvement remained hidden. The identity of Alek, however, was discovered after a telegram from Nikolai Zabotin to Moscow Centre was intercepted, revealing that Alek would soon be taking up an appointment as a lecturer at the University of London: Alek will work in King's College, Strand. It will be possible to find him there through the telephone book. Meetings: October 7, 17 and 27 on the street in front of the British Museum. The time, 11 o’clock in the evening At the beginning of September he must fly to London.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.195
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0240.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.328
Teacher spread0.294 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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