first edition
1946 · Ottawa
by [Espionage] TASCHEREAU, Hon. Mr. Justice Robert et al.
Ottawa: Edmond Cloutier, Printer to The King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1946. First Canadian Edition. Octavo. 25.5cm. Institutional heavy black cloth with red leather title label, original blue paper wraps bound in. 733pp. Strong and solid, with some isolated very light wear and soiling; internally clean with some light wear to the extremities of the original wraps. A very good, handsome copy.
An exhaustive legal report on the Gouzenko investigation itself, the surrounding context and histories, and a detailed assessment of the consequences of other such acts of espionage going unchecked. Igor Gouzenko, a cypher clerk for the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, defected two days after the end of WW2 to Canada, with a sheaf of documents detailing the USSR's espionage network in the West. Gouzenko's revealing of Russia's nuclear espionage agenda in particular is credited as being the catalyst for the disasterous global intelligence chess game that became known as The Cold War. (Inventory #: 84024)
An exhaustive legal report on the Gouzenko investigation itself, the surrounding context and histories, and a detailed assessment of the consequences of other such acts of espionage going unchecked. Igor Gouzenko, a cypher clerk for the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, defected two days after the end of WW2 to Canada, with a sheaf of documents detailing the USSR's espionage network in the West. Gouzenko's revealing of Russia's nuclear espionage agenda in particular is credited as being the catalyst for the disasterous global intelligence chess game that became known as The Cold War. (Inventory #: 84024)
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