CANADA: Gouzenko Case (Cont'd) | TIME

TIME

December 7, 1953 12:00 AM GMT-5

The U.S.-Canadian controversy over Igor Gouzenko subsided last week with neither side satisfied. In reply to a second U.S. request for an interview with the fugitive Soviet embassy cipher clerk (TIME, Nov. 30), Canada reluctantly agreed to let a U.S. Senate investigator question Gouzenko privately in Canada, but laid down the firm condition that no part of the testimony could be published without specific Canadian permission.

Indiana’s Senator William Jenner, Internal Security Subcommittee chairman, objected to Canadian censorship of “evidence vital to the security of the United States alone” and asked the State Department to forward still another note to Canada. This time Secretary of State John Foster Dulles politely declined, explaining that he thought the Canadians were “on solid ground” in their insistence on tight control of the interview. Then Gouzenko, who has turned uncommonly talkative after six years’ silence, announced that he had decided not to be interviewed, lest he endanger his family. That seemed to settle the matter—unless Gouzenko changes his mind again.

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