How the Cold War Began: The Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies. |
| Just weeks after World War II
had ended, a young cipher clerk named Igor Gouzenko walked out of the Soviet
Embassy in Ottawa with secret papers stuffed under his shirt and headed
straight for the offices of a city newspaper. His action would change the
course of the twentieth century. Gouzenko’s defection sent shockwaves through Washington, London, Moscow, and Ottawa. It was the first from a Soviet Embassy, and the smuggled documents, which suggested that agents in North America were feeding atomic secrets to Moscow, sparked a witch-hunt for spies, including not only Americans and Canadians, but a leading British nuclear scientist, Allan Nunn May. |
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In this first book to tell the Gouzenko story, Amy Knight uses newly declassified files as well as interviews with several of the key players to examine the substance of Gouzenko’s revelations and delve into his hidden motives for defecting. She explains how Gouzenko was really a pawn in a much larger game. And she brilliantly connects these events to the hardening of relations between Moscow and the West, the practice of guilt by association, and the end of the movement for international control of the atomic bomb. Written by Amy Knight. Published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2005. |
| Catalogue No. | 0-7710-9577-5 |
| Price | $36.99 |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Pages | 358 |
| Language | English only |
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