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Gouzenko had not known about Klaus Fuchs, but he had named a low level suspected GRU agent, Israel Halperin, a mathematician, who was later completely cleared.
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Gouzenko and had
Although the Igor Gouzenko and Elizabeth Bentley affairs had raised the issue of Soviet espionage as far back as 1945, events in 1949 and 1950 sharply increased the sense of threat from Communism in the United States.
The next day Gouzenko was able to find contacts in the RCMP who were willing to examine the evidence he had removed from the Soviet embassy.
Gouzenko and his wife Svetlana, they told him, had appeared at the office of Justice Minister Louis St. Laurent with documents unmasking Soviet perfidy on Canadian soil.
In 1946, he and fellow Justice Roy Kellock conducted the Royal Commission on Spying Activities in Canada that had been prompted by the Gouzenko Affair.
After a lengthy check, he discovered that it had been Hollis who was sent to Canada to interview Gouzenko.
Gouzenko had provided Hollis with clear information about Alan Nunn May's meetings with his handlers.
Gouzenko had provided Hollis with clear information about Alan Nunn May's meetings with his handlers ; all these meetings were immediately cancelled.
Wright alleges in Spycatcher that Gouzenko, who had worked for the GRU, himself deduced later that his interviewer might have been a Soviet double agent, and was probably afraid that he might recognize him from case photos that Gouzenko might have seen in KGB or GRU files, hence the disguise.
Gouzenko also admitted that he, being a lower level clerk, had no access to such files.
Gouzenko and known
Wright was struck by the fact that, unlike Igor Gouzenko and other earlier defectors, Penkovskiy did not reveal the names of any illegal Soviet agents in the West but confined himself to organizational detail, much of which was known already.
Gouzenko and about
A month later Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk in Ottawa, took political asylum in Canada and gave the Royal Canadian Mounted Police many agent names ; Philby could do nothing about this.
* February: News of the Canadian spy ring exposed by defector Igor Gouzenko is made public ( leaked by General Groves ), creating a mild " atom spy " hysteria, pushing American Congressional discussions about postwar atomic regulation in a more conservative direction.
Gouzenko and Klaus
" Pipes noted that the film adopts this conclusion without mentioning the Comintern, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Klaus Fuchs or Igor Gouzenko.
Gouzenko and GRU
* Igor Gouzenko, a GRU cipher clerk who defected in Canada
Wright alleges in Spycatcher that Gouzenko himself deduced later that his interviewer might have been a Soviet double agent and was probably afraid that he might recognise him from case photos that Gouzenko might have seen in KGB or GRU files, which would explain why Hollis was disguised.
A GRU cipher clerk in Canada, Igor Gouzenko, defected to the West in Ottawa in September 1945 ; this was right around the time when Nunn May's Canadian assignment ended.
Gouzenko passed along copies of GRU documents implicating Nunn May, including details of the proposed meeting in London.
Gouzenko and agent
The book Treachery by Chapman Pincher is devoted to the case against Hollis as being " Elli ", the highly placed mole within MI5 identified by the defector Gouzenko, and thus operating as a Soviet agent from the 1940s until Hollis ' retirement from MI5.
Gouzenko and who
He dealt with the espionage revelations of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, who defected in Ottawa in September, 1945, by quickly appointing a Royal Commission to investigate Gouzenko's allegations of a Canadian Communist spy-ring transmitting top-secret documents to the Soviet Union.
Gouzenko also noted that the man who met him seemed to be in disguise, not interested in his revelations and discouraged him from further disclosures.
Gouzenko also noted that the man who met him seemed to be in disguise, not interested in his revelations, and discouraged him from further disclosures.
Gouzenko and was
Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko ( January 13, 1919 – June 28, 1982 ) was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.
Gouzenko was born to a Ukrainian family on January 26, 1919, in the village of Rogachovo, 100 kilometers north-west of Moscow.
Gouzenko was transported by the RCMP to the secret " Camp X ", now abandoned, but located in present-day Oshawa and comfortably distant from Ottawa.
While there, Gouzenko was interviewed by investigators from Britain's MI5, and also by investigators from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Robertson told the Prime Minister that Gouzenko was threatening suicide, but King was adamant that his government not get involved, even if Gouzenko was apprehended by Soviet authorities.
A Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate espionage, headed by Justice Robert Taschereau and Justice Roy Kellock, was conducted into the Gouzenko Affair and his evidence of a Soviet spy ring in Canada.
Gouzenko died of a heart attack in 1982 at Mississauga, Canada ; his grave was not initially marked.
It was from this park that RCMP agents monitored Gouzenko's apartment across the street the night men from the Soviet embassy came looking for Gouzenko.
The story of the Gouzenko Affair was made into the film The Iron Curtain in 1948, directed by William Wellman, with screenplay by Milton Krims, and starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney as Igor and Anna Gouzenko, produced by Twentieth Century Fox.
* Gouzenko, Igor, " This was My Choice ", Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1948
The formal onset of the Cold War, usually pegged with the 1945 defection of a Soviet cipher clerk working in Ottawa, Igor Gouzenko, was therefore a continuation and extension of, rather than a departure from, Canadian anticommunist policies.
In July 1945, Igor Gouzenko, a young cipher clerk in the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, was recalled to his homeland.
Gouzenko and .
* 1945 – Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
** The Russian code clerk Igor Gouzenko comes forward with numerous documents implicating the Soviet Union in numerous spy rings in North America: both in the United States and in Canada.
Following the 1945 defection of Soviet cipher clerk, Igor Gouzenko and his revelations of espionage, the RCMP Security Service implemented measures to screen out " subversive " elements from the public sector.
* Fiction: Igor Gouzenko, The Fall of a Titan.
Gouzenko exposed Joseph Stalin's efforts to steal nuclear secrets, and the technique of planting sleeper agents.
Gouzenko walked out of the embassy door carrying with him a briefcase with Soviet code books and deciphering materials.
Gouzenko, hidden by a neighbour, watched through the keyhole as a group of Soviet agents broke into his apartment.
It has been alleged that, though the RCMP expressed interest in Gouzenko, Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King initially wanted nothing to do with him.
Even with Gouzenko in hiding and under RCMP protection, King reportedly pushed for a diplomatic solution to avoid upsetting the Soviet Union, still a wartime ally and ostensible friend.
Robertson ignored the Prime Minister's wishes and authorized granting asylum to Gouzenko and his family, on the basis that their lives were in danger.
The evidence provided by Gouzenko led to the arrest of 39 suspects ; a total of 18 were eventually convicted of a variety of offences.
Gouzenko provided many vital leads which assisted greatly with ongoing espionage investigations in Britain and North America.
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