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...Igor Gouzenko, the Russian who ripped the veil from Soviet espionage in Canada, made last week what might be his final public appearance under his own name. The occasion was the trial in Montreal of Dr. Raymond Boyer, onetime Government explosives expert who is charged with conspiring to give secret information to Russia. While seven Mounties guarded the courtroom, Gouzenko testified briefly that Boyer's name had been on the list of Canadians who were helping the Russians. Then, his job done, he turned in the witness box, bowed to the Bench, walked to a door at the rear...
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...
During the war, some Tass correspondents in France, Italy and Africa never cabled a line; they wore Red Army uniforms, were good mixers, busily gathered military intelligence. And in Ottawa there was Nikolai Zheivinov, who lasted until last September- shortly after Embassy Lode Clerk Igor Gouzenko tattled to the police about the spy ring. Then Zheivinov quietly returned to Russia. Canadian officials found he was hip-deep in espionage, and a member of the NKVD...