32 Months After

On a hot September night in 1945, Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko stuffed some damning papers inside his shirt, and walked out of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa to crack open Canada's spy case. Last week, with the movie The Iron Curtain (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) opening in a dozen Canadian cities and Gouzenko's new book This Was My Choice (Dent Ltd.; $3) going on sale, Canadians checked on the cast of characters in their spy drama:

Blond Igor Gouzenko, who is well off from the profits of writings and movies, still lives in a mountie-guarded hiding place, with his wife Anna and their three children.

Of those convicted on Gouzenko's evidence, eight are behind bars: ex-M.P. Fred Rose in St. Vincent de Paul, near Montreal; the others in Kingston Penitentiary, where all are rated as "reformable" under the prison grading system. In Britain, Scientist Dr. Allan Nunn May is in prison (ten years), but British officials will not say where.

Ringleader Sam Carr and Freda Linton are still loose; Carr has been reported at various places in Latin America. Another of the accused, Dr. Raymond Boyer of Montreal, is out on appeal bond under sentence of two years in prison.

Of nine others charged but found innocent, four are back at their former jobs; one of them working for the Dominion government, one for a Montreal newspaper and two others, a physician and an optometrist, at their own practices in Toronto. The rest of the acquitted have had to get other jobs. One of them, a biochemist, went to Paris to work after vainly trying for a year to get a place in Canada.

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