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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 was a former Soviet cipher clerk who defected to Canada in 1945 with stolen documents exposing a spy ring. He always wore a mask to protect his identity and feared for his safety until his death in 1982.
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.
Learn about the 1945 defection of Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet spy who revealed a spy ring in Canada, and the impact on civil liberties. Explore the chronology, sentences, key figures, and archival documents of the Gouzenko Affair.
Explore the documents released by CSIS in response to an Access to Information Act request about Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet spy who defected to Canada in 1945. Learn about the 109 documents he revealed and the Royal Commission of Inquiry that followed.
