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...Gouzenko's seclusion was broken late last month when he gave an interview to Chicago Tribune Correspondent Eugene Griffin in which he said he would be willing to talk to U.S. congressional investigators about "spy networks [that] still function in the United States and Canada...
Hidden Documents. The U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, headed by Senator William Jenner, was immediately interested. The documents that Gouzenko carried with him when he fled helped convict eleven spies, including a Canadian M.P. and a British scientist, Allan Nunn May, and gave leads on some 400 other suspected Red operatives in the West. The Jenner committee, through the State Department, asked Canada to let its investigators talk to Gouzenko...
With Canadian newspapers storming against "McCarthyism in Canada," the Canadian government quietly finessed the request. External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson announced that Gouzenko had nothing new to tell, and now said that the Chicago Tribune had misquoted him. The matter might have ended there but for Gouzenko, who is soon to publish his first novel. He stood by his statement that he wanted to talk. With that, the Jenner committee forwarded a second request for an interview...
Secret Rendezvous. Mike Pearson, who was en route to a U.N. session in New York, hurried back to Ottawa as soon as the second U.S. note was received late last week, and called a press conference to repeat that Gouzenko had "nothing more to offer." That same day Gouzenko issued a 350-word sworn statement. Said Gouzenko: "Mr. Pearson was ill-advised . . . I can give advice which . . . would have good chances of bringing exposure of present Soviet spy rings...
...Gouzenko elaborated on his statement in an interview with a TIME correspondent, who arranged through an intermediary to meet Gouzenko and his blonde wife Anna. Gouzenko. a slim, blond 34-year-old, was obviously upset over the furor, which he blamed on Canadian animosity to Senator Joseph McCarthy. His English fractured badly as he protested: "As soon as you touch McCarthy, it is getting everybody make scream...