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Igor Gouzenko
Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko (January 13, 1919, Rogachev, Soviet Union – June 25, 1982, Mississauga, Canada) was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on September 5, 1945 with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West.
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