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London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. Good in Good dust jacket. 1949. First British Edition. Hardcover. Third printing of the 1948 first edition. The dramatic autobiography of the man whose work led to the exposure of the atom bomb plot in Canada. "Igor Gouzenko (1919-1982) was a cypher clerk in the Soviet Union's Canadian embassy, and a lieutenant of the GRU. He defected in 1945 with 109 documents describing the USSR's espionage activities in the West. He exposed Soviet intelligence's efforts to steal nuclear secrets as well as the technique of planting sleeper agents. The 'Gouzenko Affair' is often credited as a triggering event of the Cold War." - Wikipedia. "Of all those who have emerged from behind the Iron Curtain with frightening messages for the Western World, Igor Gouzenko is the most impressive witness. Readers of this book will be in a position now to comprehend the reasons for the stiffening attitude of the Western Powers towards tthe Soviet… Ler mais