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3 unusual facts about Igor Gouzenko


Canada–Soviet Union relations

Igor Gouzenko was a clerk at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa who defected to Canada with evidence of Soviet spying in the West.

Igor 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.

This forced Prime Minister Mackenzie King to call a Royal Commission to investigate espionage in Canada.



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