First of all, when Global took a look at the documents, their experts pointed out they don't show anything. They don't show that I received any money or anything of the sort that Mr. Alexander claimed. What the Soviets did during the 1980s was look at all kinds of individuals: journalists, politicians, as I mentioned, academics.
I found it interesting that whoever wrote those documents up was not aware of me, because on a lot of the dates where I was supposed to be in Ottawa, I wasn't. They described me as a “leftist activist”. Well, throughout the 1980s I was working for military publications. I was a correspondent for a Washington publication called the Armed Forces Journal, which is produced for the U.S. Army. We were writing stories about how to nuke the Soviets off the face of the earth, how to get more weapons, the need for NATO expansion, that type of thing. That wouldn't appear to me as someone who's a leftist activist.
These documents, I don't know where they came from. Maybe you should ask Mr. Alexander. He said they came from Ukraine. He didn't give specifics. Why would the Soviets look at me? If they did, I think that would just be standard operating procedure for most journalists during the Cold War, for most academics and for most politicians.