• 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...
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    Gouzenko exposed Soviet intelligence's efforts to steal nuclear secrets as well as the technique of planting sleeper agents. The "Gouzenko Affair" is...
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    Army officer at the Embassy, Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk trained in intelligence work, defected to the RCMP. Gouzenko's briefcase, containing Russian-language...
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  • spies by Igor Gouzenko when he defected from the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa in September 1945 in what became known as the Gouzenko Affair. Woikin was sentenced...
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  • officials by Igor Gouzenko, a Russian cipher clerk stationed in Ottawa, who had defected the previous year. The affair, with Gouzenko exposing Canadians...
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  • 2023-04-11. Dufour, Paul (November 1981). "'Eggheads' and Espionage: The Gouzenko Affair in Canada". Journal of Canadian Studies. 16 (3–4): 188–198. doi:10...
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    Igor Gouzenko, a young cipher clerk in the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, was recalled to his homeland in July 1945. Rather than return home, Gouzenko defected...
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    Australia–Russia relations Gouzenko Affair - A similar defection by a Soviet official in Canada in 1945 "Mrs Petrov's death brings bizarre affair to end". 27 July...
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    at a relatively late moment to the bill by its creators, after the Gouzenko affair was leaked to the press and caused a fear of loss of "the secret" of...
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  • that she died of leukemia upon her return.[citation needed] After the Gouzenko affair, matters of Canadian national security were not usually made subject...
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