Red Defection: Weapon for the West

Igor Gouzenko, the code clerk who served the Soviet spy apparatus in Canada, said in October 1957 that there is “no question but that there are Communist-sickened Russian officials and agents who yearn for an opportunity to break for freedom and to carry with them vital documentary evidence of Kremlin-directed espionage against the West as I did in 1945.”

Ismail Ege, Gregory Orlov and other important former Soviet intelligence officers have also testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee that key Soviet agents and diplomats would defect if only our laws would protect them. After an exhaustive study of the problem, the Subcommittee recommended that legislation “to assure sanctuary in the United States and a decent standard of living to Communist defectors” be enacted.

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Igor Gouzenko, the code clerk who served the Soviet spy apparatus in Canada, said in October 1957 that there is “no question but that there are Communist-sickened Russian officials and agents who yearn for an opportunity to break for freedom and to carry with them vital documentary evidence of Kremlin-directed espionage against the West as I did in 1945.”

Ismail Ege, Gregory Orlov and other important former Soviet intelligence officers have also testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee that key Soviet agents and diplomats would defect if only our laws would protect them. After an exhaustive study of the problem, the Subcommittee recommended that legislation “to assure sanctuary in the United States and a decent standard of living to Communist defectors” be enacted.