John Watkins joined Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs in 1946, and was Canada’s ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1956. Years later, Canadian intelligence suspected Watkins of having homosexual relations in the USSR and viewed him as a security threat. On Oct. 12, 1964, after 27 days of interrogation, he died of a heart attack while under questioning. The fatal interrogation was part of the RCMP’s Operation Rockbottom.
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John Watkins (Main)
BE [n64.37]
John Benjamin Clark Watkins (altName)
BE [http://isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/000000010897158X(http://goo.gl/2PZJOw)] |
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| Related Pages | John Watkins on LGLC
John Watkins on VIAF |
| Birth Date | [1902] |
| Birth Place | Norval |
| Death Date | 1964/10/12 |
| Death Place | https://lglc.ca/place/MON/ |
| Identities |
Homosexual
BG [http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=24474(http://goo.gl/97LPqo)], [“John Watkins: Dead at ‘Rockbottom’,” Body Politic, no. 81 (1982), p. 14] |
| Occupations |
Canadian Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Government
1954 - 1956 https://lglc.ca/event/n64.37 |