Canadian affairs by inviting the then-opposition leader Lester B. Pearson (a Liberal) to the White House for a banquet with Nobel Prize winners just before the official start of 1962 campaign, failing to rescind the offer when the election was formally called, holding a private meeting with Pearson in the White House, and mentioning only Pearson in his remarks to the Nobel laureates. In the aftermath of the Cuban Missile crisis, Diefenbaker's policy was attacked by the U.S. State department in a statement which McGeorge Bundy bragged had "toppled" the Diefenbaker government. The U.S. embassy in Ottawa leaked anti-Diefenbaker stories to the media covering the campaign and the Kennedy-friendly Newsweek magazine ran cover story attacking Diefenbaker. Besides these public interventions, Kennedy secretly sent his personal pollster Lou Harris to work for Pearson's Liberals under an assumed name, despite refusing to allow Harris to work for the British Labour Party under Harold Wilson. "One of the highlights of my life,” Mr. Harris told The Canadian Press, “was helping Pearson defeat Diefenbaker." 2019 election (by China) The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) warned Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau that Chinese Communist Party-affiliated proxies had covertly funded at least 11 federal candidates in the 2019 election. Four months after the 2019 Canadian federal election, the Privy Council Office warned that election interference by China was "likely to be more persistent and pervasive in future elections." 2021 election (by China) The Rapid Response Mechanism Canada reported that it detected Chinese Communist Party (CCP) disinformation operations to dissuade voters from supporting the Conservative Party of Canada during the 2021 federal election. Kenny Chiu, an outspoken critic of Chinese government's crackdown on dissent and protest in Hong Kong, was a key target of this disinformation campaign. CSIS also produced reports on the Chinese government's strategy to interfere in Canada's 2021 federal election. Chile 1964 election (by United States and Soviet Union) Between 1960 and 1969, the Soviet government funded the Communist Party of Chile at a rate of between $50,000 and $400,000 annually. In the 1964 Chilean elections the U.S. government supplied $2.6 million in funding for candidate Eduardo Frei Montalva, whose opponent, Salvador Allende was a prominent Marxist, as well as additional funding with the intention of harming Allende's reputation. As Kristian Gustafson phrased the situation: It was clear the Soviet Union was operating in Chile to ensure Marxist success, and from the contemporary American