CANADA: Eager Igor

Since 1945, when he fled from Ottawa's Soviet embassy to make the first major exposure of Communist espionage in the West, Igor Gouzenko has been living undercover, with an assumed name and a 24-hour police guard. Last week the former Soviet cipher clerk was back in the limelight, the center of a swelling controversy between Canada and the U.S.

Gouzenko's seclusion was broken late last month when he gave an interview to Chicago Tribune Correspondent Eugene Griffin in which he said he would be willing to talk to U.S. congressional investigators about "spy networks [that] still function in the United...

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