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...Petrov's documents: a royal commission must first sort out and evaluate it. But many startled Australians thought of the Woomera rocket range, of the new uranium workings in the north, of the British atomic shots off the Montebello Islands. And, remembering the defection of Igor Gouzenko in Canada in 1945, which resulted in the exposure of Dr. Alan Nunn May and Klaus Fuchs, Britain last week hustled two MI-5 (military intelligence) men off to Australia...
Ever since he fled from Ottawa's Soviet embassy in 1945, Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko has been guarded by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police against Communist reprisals. Last week his Mountie guard was withdrawn. The government decided that it was no longer practical to keep watch over the Russian fugitive who exposed the Soviet spy ring in Canada...
...removal of his bodyguard was largely Gouzenko's own responsibility. For the first few years after his escape, the guard worked well; Gouzenko lived in deep seclusion, and the Mounties were able to guarantee his security. Later, when royalties rolled in from a movie and a book about him, Gouzenko tired of the sheltered life. He developed a taste for shopping and for driving around in snappy cars, making it hard for the guards to keep up with...
Over the past six months, the watch over Gouzenko became almost totally unworkable. With his new book, The Fall of a Titan, about to be published, the publicity-conscious author began to set up interviews and to pose for photos wearing a pillowcase mask. Usually he slipped away to the interviews, giving the Mount ies no opportunity to screen his visitors. Said a government official: "Each guy he met could have been Malenkov himself for all we knew...
...subject with which Zarubin has more than the average diplomat's experience. Georgi Zarubin was the U.S.S.R.'s Ambassador to Canada when Code Clerk Igor Gouzenko fled the Russian embassy and, turning himself over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, laid bare the workings of the Soviet Union's atomic spy ring in Canada, Britain and the U.S. Soon after Gouzenko told his story, Ambassador Zarubin abruptly left the country; he never returned...