Word: gouzenkos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canadian controversy over Igor Gouzenko subsided last week with neither side satisfied. In reply to a second U.S. request for an interview with the fugitive Soviet embassy cipher clerk (TIME, Nov. 30), Canada reluctantly agreed to let a U.S. Senate investigator question Gouzenko privately in Canada, but laid down the firm condition that no part of the testimony could be published without specific Canadian permission...
...security of the United States alone" and asked the State Department to forward still another note to Canada. This time Secretary of State John Foster Dulles politely declined, explaining that he thought the Canadians were "on solid ground" in their insistence on tight control of the interview. Then Gouzenko, who has turned uncommonly talkative after six years' silence, announced that he had decided not to be interviewed, lest he endanger his family. That seemed to settle the matter-unless Gouzenko changes his mind again...
With Igor Gouzenko back on Page One (see above), another figure from the 1946 Canadian spy trials reappeared in the news. Fred Rose, onetime Communist Member of Parliament who was convicted on Gouzenko's evidence of passing secret information to Russia, turned up in Red-run Czechoslovakia. Rose, who had been living quietly in Montreal since his release from prison in 1951, left Canada by ship in October with a valid passport...
Chased by NKVD. Despite the screaming, however, the onetime Soviet intelligence clerk still insisted he wanted to talk to U.S. investigators, not to offer new information or name new names, but to give them "advice . . . which can be discussed only in secret." Said Gouzenko: "There is no reason or excuse not to let them come here...
...Canadian citizen, Gouzenko is legally free to travel to the U.S. himself or to talk privately with U.S. visitors in Canada. But there is a compelling reason why he may not follow either course: the Canadian government, which supplies a full-time police guard for the Gouzenkos and their two children, has strongly hinted that the guard will be withdrawn if Gouzenko chooses to abandon his own security arrangements. Gouzenko, who was chased by NKVD agents in Ottawa after his break for freedom in 1945, still fears that the Reds would kill him to set an example for other doubters...