Igor Gouzenko grave
December 11, 2025
Igor Gouzenko’s defection and the beginning of the Cold War in Canada
On a bright winter day at Springcreek Cemetery in Mississauga, Ontario, I visited the grave of former Soviet spy–turned–informant Igor Gouzenko and his wife, Svetlana Igor Gouzenko served as a cipher clerk for the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), responsible for encrypting and decrypting sensitive communications. In 1943, during the Second World War, he was […]