Igor Gouzenko defected 80 years ago. His Cold War-era bravery hasn’t been forgotten

Igor Gouzenko defected 80 years ago. His Cold War-era bravery hasn’t been forgotten

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 fears of retribution from Moscow, the gravesite of Igor Gouzenko

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