Organization: Library and Archives Canada
Year: 2023
Month: July
Request Number: A-2022-09772
Request Summary: Material on both asylum requests and defections at Gander Airport on flights between the Eastern bloc states (especially East Germany and the Soviet Union) and Cuba. Primary date range of interest January 1, 1961 to January 1, 1992. Files of interest include RG 76, reference numbers “R1206-246-1-E, RG76-E” and “RG76, 1993-94/310 GAD, HFRC#86-143 HFRC, 121-000310-4.” I would also be interested in knowing how the everyday work of Canada Immigration Gander changed after the Cold War and would be interested in "RG118, 00-1007-00 HFRC, 2003-00976-0," Files of interest also include files from RG 18, including “Cuban Defectors and Airport Screening,” reference numbers “R196, RG18, Volume number: 13794, File number: GP-195-18-4, File part: 80-1" and "R196, RG18, Volume number: 13794, File number: GP-195-18-4, File part: 80S-1." Finally, files of interest include "RG26-A-1-c, Volume number: 119, File number: 3-25-4."
Disposition: Disclosed in part
Number of pages: 479