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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. 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 ...

Scott Anderson’s latest book is The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War – a Tragedy in Three Acts. In August, the U.S. Senate select committee on intelligence released a ...

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 ...

Ever since the spy story broke, the Russian Embassy in Ottawa has watched the damaging developments in tight-lipped silence. Last week it turned a blast on the man who spilled the beans—ex-Embassy ...