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FOUR YEARS' GAOL FOR
CONSPIRACY
OTTAWA, Friday.
I. Harold Samuel Gerson, 44, of Mon-1 'treal, was sentenced to'four years] gaol after his second trial on a charge of conspiracy to supply con- fidential information to'Russia.
Gerson was formerly a key man in Canada; Munitions and Supply.
¦'. A. witness- for the prosecution was Igor-Gouzenkp,' a former Soviet Em- bassy cypher clerk; who in 1946 sup- plied 'the Canadian Government with
mass of evidence revealing wide- spread'espionage ring in Canada,