Word: gouzenkos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same kind of courage was shown six months later when Igor Gouzenko, a Russian cipher clerk, fled from the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with evidence of a Communist spy ring in Canada. Prime Minister King, who was trying to stay neutral in the cold war, dreaded the Russians' reaction to a spy scandal. St. Laurent, who had refused to listen to Gouzenko when he first came to his office with the spy data, saw it differently. He ordered 14 suspects locked up and held incommunicado while a secretly appointed Royal Commission dug up the facts. St. Laurent's political opponents...
Instead, Sam Carr, like a good Communist, went back on his promise and headed right into the spy ring operated by the Soviet Military Attaché Colonel Zabotin. Documents niched by Igor Gouzenko from Zabotin's files showed Carr's record. It detailed various payments of Moscow money to him, among them $3,000 to bribe an official who issued a false passport for a Russian agent in California. That bribe is one of the counts in the Mounties' warrants charging Carr with violating the Official Secrets Act and the Criminal Code. Last week Canada...
...movie story of the Soviet spy ring in Canada, The Iron Curtain, fades out on a pastoral scene: Igor Gouzenko, the Russian code clerk who tipped off the Mounties, strolls down a country lane with his wife to safety. Eighteen months ago, when Gouzenko did just that, he said: "I consider myself a Canadian...
Last week Gouzenko was in fact a Canadian. The Department of the Secretary of State had issued him a citizenship certificate. It described him briefly: 5 ft. 8 in., blue-grey eyes, fair hair. His occupation was left blank, his address was simply c/o R.C.M.P...
...those convicted on Gouzenko's evidence, eight are behind bars: ex-M.P. Fred Rose in St. Vincent de Paul, near Montreal; the others in Kingston Penitentiary, where all are rated as "reformable" under the prison grading system. In Britain, Scientist Dr. Allan Nunn May is in prison (ten years), but British officials will not say where...