Sam Carr

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For the Sam Carr who was David Berkowitz's neighbour, see Son of Sam

Sam Carr was the national organizer for the Communist Party of Canada and, its successor, the Labour-Progressive Party in the 1930s and 1940s.

After a cypher clerk in the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, Igor Gouzenko, defected to Canada, Carr was revealed as a spy for the Soviet Union. He was charged with espionage for having obtained secrets about the atomic bomb and handing them over to Moscow. He was imprisoned for seven years along with Fred Rose who was, until his conviction, the Communist Party's only sitting Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons.

Carr resumed his activities with the Party upon his release from prison until his death in the 1960s, but stayed out of public view.