List of Famous people with last name Gouzenko

Igor Gouzenko

First Name Igor

Died on June 28, 1982 (aged 12)

Born in Belarus, Gomel Region

Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko was a cipher clerk for the Soviet embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on 5 September 1945, three days after the end of World War II, with 109 documents on the USSR's espionage activities in the West. This forced Canada's Prime Minister Mackenzie King to call a Royal Commission to investigate espionage in Canada.

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