Nancy Begalki Gardiner supports the notion of recognition for people such as her father, the late Gus Begalki, who served as RCMP chief superintendent during much of the Cold War.
“He was extremely loyal to his country, but a lot of the work that people like my father did went largely overlooked because it was top secret,” she said. “During the Cold War, he would leave the house and not come back for three weeks. None of us knew where he had gone off to.”
She said her father was “sometimes frustrated” by the lack of federal recognition for his work on important cases such as that of Igor Gouzenko, the clerk for the Soviet embassy in Ottawa who defected in 1945 with documents on Soviet espionage activities, and Gerda Munsinger, an East German prostitute and alleged Soviet spy who became involved with Canadian Cabinet ministers.

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