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Igor Gouzenko was important during the end of World War II. He lived from 1919 to 1982 and was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada. This was in Ontario, and he defected in 1945 with over a hundred documents about Soviet espionage in the Western Hemisphere.

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