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...Government first heard about the Russian espionage last autumn from Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk in the Soviet Embassy at Ottawa. Why he tattled, the Government did not say. But he named names, produced documents, and pointed to Nicolai Zabotin, the Embassy's military attaché, as the spy ring's head. He said that Zabotin, in the best spy manner, used a bogus name: "Grant...
Uranium & Telegrams. Gouzenko's documents, which the Canadian Government accepted as authentic, showed clearly that Zabotin and his agents received specific instructions from Moscow. Some of the facts they were ordered to get would be routine with military attaches of any country...