Infernal Machine: Investigating the Loyalty of Canada's Citizens Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	3
1	The last recourse of liars: Testing loyalty before 1919	17
2	The politics of identification: Fingerprinting to 1939	41
3	The birth of state vetting: Security screening in the interwar period	63
4	The infernal machine: Security screening during the Second World War	83
5	Reds under the khaki: Screening the military and merchant marine	119
6	'Gathering information regarding communistic chaps': The system's political rationale	139
7	Engineers of conduct: The system's technical rationale	163
8	Security affairs: Liaison with the Allies and provinces	183
9	'The first to come under suspicion': Popular response to security screening	211
10	Outcomes, developments, and significance	241
	Appendix 1 Application for employment	255
	Appendix 2 Non-criminal fingerprint form	257
	Notes	259
	Picture Credits	317
	Index	319