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GOUZENKO IGOR: (1919-1982) Russian cipher clerk for the Soviet embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, who defected ...

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GOUZENKO IGOR: (1919-1982) Russian cipher clerk for the Soviet embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, who defected on 5th September 1945, just three days after the end of World War II, with over 100 documents detailing the USSR's espionage activities in the West. Gouzenko also exposed Joseph Stalin's efforts to steal nuclear secrets and the 'Gouzenko Affair' is often credited as a triggering event of the Cold War. Book signed, being a hardback edition of Gouzenko's novel The Fall of a Titan, First Edition published by W. W. Norton & Company Inc., New York, 1954. Special prepublication edition signed by Gouzenko to the limitations page beneath a printed statement, 'This Special Edition, autographed by the author for American Booksellers, is limited to 950 copies, of which this copy is number 369'. Bound in half white cloth over mauve boards and accompanied by the dust jacket. Some light age wear and minor tears to the dust jacket. Together with Oleg Gordievsky (1938- ) Russian Spy, a KGB Colonel who became KGB resident-designate and bureau chief in London, and was a double agent, providing information to MI6 from 1974-85. The USSR subsequently sentenced him to death in absentia. Black ink signature ('Best wishes, Oleg Gordievsky') on a 12mo white card with a collector's neat ink annotations to the upper and lower edges. G to VG, 2