Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When former Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko appeared in public after his defection in Ottawa in 1945, he wore a pillowcase to ...

THE FALL OF A TITAN (629 pp.)—Igor Gouzenko—Norton ($4.50). Nine years ago Igor Gouzenko walked out of his job as code clerk in the Russian embassy in Ottawa and into world headlines. From his ...

Svetlana Gouzenko, 77, the wife of Igor Gouzenko, whose defection to the West in 1945 proved a landmark event in the Cold War and in the annals of espionage, died this week in Canada, according to ...

The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies By Amy Knight Carroll & Graf. 355 pp. $27.95 On Sept. 5, 1945, Igor Gouzenko left his post at the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa for the last time.

This striking, luminously illustrated compendium from artist Nabil collects Palestinian folklore from Jerusalem’s Old City. The tales, many of them first-person encounters with Continue reading » ...

Ever since the spy story broke, the Russian Embassy in Ottawa has watched the damaging developments in tight-lipped silence. Last week it turned a blast on the man who spilled the beans—ex-Embassy ...

For 20 years, the grave of a former Soviet cipher clerk whose defection revealed a secret spy ring in Canada lay unmarked in a Mississauga, Ont., cemetery. Left without a headstone amid lingering ...