#colwar

World's Greatest Spy The greatest spy to ever live was a man of impressive fact and almost unbelievable legend, with both verifiable feats of espionage and romanticized stories about his exploits. It is believed that he spied for nearly all of the world’s great powers at some point during his life -

Picture #12: To this day Igor Gouzenko is still very well-known historically as the man who ushered in the Cold War. In many Cold War museums, as shown above, Igor Gouzenko is labelled as a brave figure who stood up to the cruel regime of the Soviet Union and decided to defect. In fact, eighteen years after his death in 1982, the Canadian Government declared his defection as an event of National significance.