The movie story of the Soviet spy ring in Canada, The Iron Curtain, fades out on a pastoral scene: Igor Gouzenko, the Russian code clerk who tipped off the Mounties, strolls down a country lane with his wife to safety. Eighteen months ago, when Gouzenko did just that, he said: "I consider myself a Canadian."
Last week Gouzenko was in fact a Canadian. The Department of the Secretary of State had issued him a citizenship certificate. It described him briefly: 5 ft. 8 in., blue-grey eyes, fair hair. His occupation was left blank, his...
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