British Intelligence Service and Count Pavel Ignatieff

Count Pavel Ignatieff: The Ignatieffs were "White Russians," opposed to the Communists, and the family's patriarch, Count Pavel Ignatieff, was once an influential member of the court of Czar Nicholas II. , according to Hamilton Spectator. Grateful to the British government for offering them exile, the Ignatieffs co-operated regularly with the British intelligence service after settling in Canada in the mid-1920s, according to recently released MI5 files obtained by the Toronto Star. Recently released British intelligence files note that the family of former federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff spied on suspected Nazi sympathizers in Canada on behalf of the British security service MI5. The 1917 Russian Revolution drove the Ignatieffs into exile while the czar and his family were executed by firing squad. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.