Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When former Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko appeared in public after his defection in Ottawa in 1945, he wore a pillowcase to ...

The Gouzenko Affair led to arrests all over the world and triggered a wave of Red Scare in the U.S., Britain and Canada. A man in an eerie white mask covering his entire face sits in a dark studio.

Igor Gouzenko was a lowly Soviet cipher clerk when he turned the world order upside down in 1945. Nobody could have predicted the espionage hysteria his defection would unleash. World News Editor ...

I used to lecture on Canada and the early Cold War to large classes in a Canadian history course. As the students rose to leave the lecture hall one day some 30 years ago, a young woman approached me ...

WHEN Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet spy, defected to the West he told his wife Svetlana that he did not expect to survive for more than a year. He was sure that he would be tracked down by his former ...

For 20 years, the grave of a former Soviet cipher clerk whose defection revealed a secret spy ring in Canada lay unmarked in a Mississauga, Ont., cemetery. Left without a headstone amid lingering ...