“First thing I knew I was grabbed by two guys and whisked upstairs, I don't think my feet hit the floor: I was a Russian spy [because] I could read Russian!”
Interview with Marcel Giroux
December 5, 2013
Listen to Marcel Giroux talk about boarding school and being suspected of spying for the Russians.
Marcel Giroux shows Jo Stanbridge and Sara Carpenter two photos taken in December 2012 at his 80th birthday, and tells about going to boarding school after grade 8 where he leaned to read Greek, which helped him to learn a little Russian.
Later when he was a high school guidance counsellor on a tour of naval headquarters in Halifax, he read out the name of a Russian ship and was immediately suspected of being a Russian spy.