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Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko (Ukrainian: Ігор Сергійович Гузенко; January 26, 1919 – June 25, 1982) was a cipher clerk for the Soviet embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, and a lieutenant of the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate .
May 27, 2008 · Igor Sergeievitch Gouzenko, Soviet intelligence officer, author (born 26 January 1919 in Rogachev, Russia; died 25 June 1982 in Mississauga, ON). Igor Gouzenko was a Soviet cipher clerk stationed at the Soviet Union’s Ottawa embassy during the Second World War.
The Gouzenko Affair was the name given to events in Canada surrounding the defection of Igor Gouzenko, a GRU cipher clerk stationed at the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, from the Soviet Union in 1945 and his allegations regarding the existence of a Soviet spy ring of Canadian communists.
Mar 28, 2019 · Igor Gouzenko still felt the danger of being a defector more than two decades after he walked out of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa with a cache of stolen documents.
Oct 18, 2013 · "He” was Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa. It was 6 September 1945, the day after he left the embassy for the final time following weeks of carrying secret documents home under his clothes.
The Cold War began with the defection of Igor Gouzenko in 1945 and revelations surrounding a Soviet spy ring operating in Canada. The Gouzeko Affair symbolized the crumbling of the wartime alliance between East and West, and the emergence of a new era of global conflict.
In 2017, a requester filed an Access to Information Act request with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service for " Copies of the 109 documents from the Soviet embassy revealed by Igor Gouzenko in 1945 and used during the Kellock-Taschereau Royal Commission of Inquiry."
