THE LATEST | CANADAThe Globe and Mail: Sources say the soldiers involved with Mriya Aid asserted that the reporting on their charity was just the latest example of what they alleged was a years-long trend in which Mr. Pugliese’s articles suited the Kremlin’s aims – in this case, by undermining Canadian support for Ukraine.
That assertion is based largely on a controversial seven-page file – which appears to have been handpicked from a larger dossier – purportedly showing that the Soviet-era KGB had considered recruiting Mr. Pugliese in the late 1980s. The purported KGB documents are the focus of a fierce but whispered debate in Ottawa over the authenticity and provenance of the files…