Word: gouzenkos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iron Curtain (20th Century-Fox) is the fact-fictional story of the Soviet-Canadian atomic spy ring, and of how it was cracked (TIME, March 11, 1946). It centers on the Soviet Embassy Code Clerk Igor Gouzenko (Dana Andrews with a short haircut) who did the cracking. An odd blend of naivete and expert craftsmanship, the picture is an above-average spine-chiller. It is also topnotch anti-Communist propaganda...
...persuasive and exciting one. Under William Wellman's taut direction, it catches something of the soul-freezing discipline and mutual mistrust which must be the normal climate for totalitarian operations; something, too, of the way ardent amateurs in "front" groups are exploited. And near the end, when Gouzenko is trying hopelessly to find a Canadian who will listen to his story while the pursuers close in, the suspense is really awful...
Since then Igor Gouzenko has been the most closely guarded man in Canada. His testimony has resulted in ten convictions (Boyer's trial is the last of those arrested...
...number of Canadians who have seen Gouzenko face to face is comparatively small. At the Government's request, no paper has printed his picture, or described him any more closely than to say that he is a stocky blond. Between trials he has busied himself with landscape painting and writing...
Financially, Gouzenko is fairly well fixed. Cosmopolitan magazine paid him a reported $50,000 for his story of the spy ring. In addition, he is assured of a small but steady income. A fortnight ago a Canadian industrialist walked into the Justice Building at Ottawa with a plan for Gouzenko. He explained that he knew "seven or eight other men" who would be willing to contribute a fund to buy a Dominion Government annuity for Gouzenko. Told that $24,000 would buy an annuity paying him $100 a month for life, the businessman said:"Never mind the other fellows...