The Iron Curtain (1948) - full transcript
Soviet soldier turned bureaucrat Igor Gouzenko is assigned to his first overseas posting in 1943 to Ottawa, Canada, as a cipher clerk for the military attaché, their offices in a secret wing of the Soviet embassy. Igor is not to tell anyone what he does for a living, he given a cover story which he is to recite even when questioned by his own people. He and his wife Anna Gouzenko are supposed to be cordial to their Canadian neighbors and associates, but not fraternize or befriend them, as they are still considered the enemy, despite both countries being on the same side in the war. Igor follows his instructions to a T, but it is more difficult for Anna, who does not have the distraction of work during the day, and who can see that their neighbors are not their enemies but good people much like themselves. Over the next few years, Igor sees that what is happening around him and the work in which he is involved will not result in a world in which he wants to raise his newborn son, Andrezj. As such, the Gouzenkos decide not to return to the Soviet Union. Besides defecting, Igor wants to expose what he is privy to, namely that there is a secret Soviet spy ring operating in Canada, which is comprised of people in authority, such as Canadian military personnel and elected officials. The spy ring's biggest project is to provide the Soviet government with secrets concerning the atomic bomb. Igor being able to get the necessary papers out of the embassy will be difficult enough, especially as he, Anna and Andrezj have been notified that the posting has concluded and that they are scheduled to return to the Soviet Union, but proving his claim to someone in authority in Canada who will listen before the Soviets discover what he is doing is a whole different matter.
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"Early in 1943 a regularly
scheduled flight .."
"Of a commercial airline was
coming in from the west."
"Carrying three passengers
from Soviet Russia."
"They had left Moscow
about one week before."
"Had landed at Fairbanks, Alaska."
"And were now on their way to
Ottawa, the capital of Canada."
"One of the passengers was
Colonel Aleksandr Trigorin."
"The new military attach? to the
Soviet Embassy in Canada."
"The other was Major Semyon Kulin."
"His aide and secretary."
"The third was Igor Gouzenko."
"A specially trained cypher
clerk and decoding expert."
"It was Gouzenko's first
time out of Soviet Russia."
"As soon as they landed they
were taken to the Soviet Embassy."
"Interviewed by Ilya Ranov."
"Second secretary of the
embassy and Chief of the NKVD."
"The Soviet Secret Police."
I am now in a foreign country and
must always be alert against enemies.
I must be careful of all
manner of acquaintanceship.
I mustn't engage in cordial conversation
with any foreigner whatsoever.
Never borrow money from a foreigner.
In my apartment, I must be respectful
to neighbors but make no friends.
I must never permit myself to be more
drunk than either my guests or my host.
A sober brain, a firm
tongue and alertness.
These things must always be with
me when I'm with foreigners.
Where were you born?
- Kovachova.
You were in the Red Army?
Yes.
- What branch?
Military Intelligence. Cypher division.
I had training in coding and decoding at
the Secret Intelligence School, Moscow.
I am also a member of the
Young Communist League.
What is your duty here?
Cypher clerk. Military Attach?'s office.
What do you know about this idiot?
He was assigned to me by
Headquarters Military Intelligence.
Before you left Moscow, you were given
answers to the questions I just asked.
Why didn't you use them?
Sorry, Comrade Ranov.
I thought with you ..
You will give those answers
to everyone, no matter who.
You will think, eat, sleep, breathe
those answers until you know no others.
Where were you were born?
- In the town of Gorky, Steroniv Street.
What school?
- Economics Technical Institute.
What is your duty?
I am employed by the military
attach? as translator and secretary.
Have you ever been a soldier?
- No. Never.
That's better.
I give only one warning.
As a cypher clerk you are
a fountain of information.
No-one, not even members
of the Embassy staff.
Must know who you are
and what you're work is.
No-one will know.
One more thing.
You'll be wise never to forget that even
on foreign soil you're a Soviet citizen.
And soldier.
I could never forget that Comrade Ranov.
We will see.
Bushkin will take you
to the cypher section.
That's all.
Karanova, come in please.
My secretary, Nina Karanova.
Colonel Trigorin.
Major Kulin.
An unexpected pleasure.
Will you have dinner with me tonight?
Karanova.
You will handle this matter yourself.
Yes, Comrade Ranov.
You haven't answered my question.
A cold fish, isn't she.
The bell is here.
Comrade Lieutenant Vinikov.
This is Lieutenant Igor Gouzenko.
The new military attach? cypher clerk.
He is yours from now on.
I hope you like music.
Ranov's cypher clerk uses that room.
That one belongs to the
diplomatic cypher clerk.
This is the wash-room.
The small incinerator is in
the far room to your left.
The large one to the right.
This is yours.
No-one is permitted in this section
excepted authorised persons.
You will give me all
messages for transmission.
When you've finished
with the code books.
Give them to the chief of the cypher
section who will put them in his safe.
He's the only one that
knows the combination.
When your day's work is done.
Every scrap of paper must be burnt.
Every drawer.
And the door of the safe must be
sealed with the Top Secret seal.
And don't ask me why "the
church" means Top Secret.
I don't know.
You will take no papers from this room
without showing them to me first.
And don't ask to have
the music turned off.
It is a rule.
The music must always play.
So no-one can hear what's
being said in the other offices.
I hate music.
"Karanova, Ranov's secretary, was
extremely friendly with Gouzenko."
"She had introduced herself to him.
Offered to help find him an apartment."
"On his first night in Ottawa they
met in front of the Ch?teau Laurier."
"They went to a gay restaurant."
"Gouzenko discovered that
Canadians were a happy people."
"Who even in wartime seemed
to enjoy themselves."
"They danced until closing time."
"And then they went to her apartment."
Why, this is your apartment?
Uhuh.
You live here all alone?
Alone.
This is good enough for a Commissar.
I spend every penny I
earn on this apartment.
Do you think you could
find me one like it?
Well I'll try. I'll ask the
manager in the morning.
Pour yourself a drink.
I'll be right back.
Living must be cheap over here.
It was cheaper in Tokyo.
Did you live there?
In the Soviet Embassy.
Berlin, too.
Were you a secretary in Berlin?
And in Tokyo.
I was trained for diplomatic service.
Perhaps we went to the same school.
I went to the Economic
Technical Institute.
Any others?
Did you have a drink?
I'll have another.
And you?
No more tonight.
Well, you expect me.
You must be very tired.
It was a long journey.
Here. Let me make you more comfortable.
Look. I might fall asleep.
When do you begin work?
Tomorrow.
Is your office in the embassy?
Yes.
Then we'll see lots of each other.
Have another drink?
You have plenty?
- Oh.
Here in Canada there is
plenty of everything.
It's always been very quiet.
At the Military Attach?'s office.
The arrival of men like you and ..
Colonel Trigorin.
Promise great changes.
Does it?
But of course.
That's wonderful.
It makes the stomach dance.
I'm getting sleepy.
Well then, rest.
Tomorrow you will have
to work very hard.
There will be messages.
Many secret messages.
Is that true?
I am a very important person.
With all kinds of important secrets.
I'll tell you one.
My wife is very beautiful.
More beautiful than I?
Hers is a quiet kind of beauty.
Soft and warm.
And mine?
Your beauty is a thing
carved out of granite.
No body or soul.
You are being unfriendly now.
Why?
You're not very clever.
You've been away from Russia too long.
Experience has provided new techniques.
You should learn them.
For one thing, never
ask direct questions.
And for another.
You should never bring a Russian
to a place like this for questioning.
It might dull the wits of the Canadians
but to Russians it means only one thing.
It would be better.
Not to make an enemy
of me, Comrade Gouzenko.
I don't want to make an enemy of you any
more than I want you make a fool of me.
I drink vodka like a true Russian.
I love my wife.
And I thank you for everything.
And of course you will tell the truth
about me because if you don't ..
I'll have to tell how easy it
was to see through you.
Goodnight.
I was born in the town of Gorky.
On Steroniv Street.
I was never a soldier.
"In days Gouzenko settled down to
the job for which he had been trained."
"The very first message he decoded
ordered Trigorin and Ranov."
"To meet someone codenamed .."
"Paul."
"Paul's registration card
was in the secret file."
"Surname: John Grubb."
"Canadian citizen."
"Codename: 'Paul'."
"Detailed material on his biography is
recorded in files in the Comintern."
Get in, gentlemen.
I've been expecting you, Trigorin.
Welcome to Canada.
It is time you know.
It is time they sent someone competent.
Canada is important.
It will be more important
when we've won this war.
Do you understand that?
Did they tell you that?
My orders are to build
a large organisation.
A "large organisation".
What's that?
A mass of people swarming like bees?
Or a few smart ones in the right places?
Our requirements are quite extensive.
For example.
Moscow must know what chance there is
to get a man on the General Staff level.
They're mad.
They'll be asking for
the Prime Minister next.
Not until his name is John Grubb.
Canada is not yet ready for me.
You're not dealing with
an amateur, Colonel.
I founded the party in Canada in 1920.
I am a graduate of the Lenin school.
For your information.
I take my orders directly from Moscow.
Not from the embassy.
I sometimes need to
remind Ranov of that.
No.
You need people in the right places.
The Army, the Air Force, the Navy.
The National Research Council.
The Department of External Affairs.
This is a general list of
required information.
Stop here.
They are asking for a lot.
They'll get it.
Goodnight, gentlemen.
House of Commons. Members Entrance.
Good evening, John.
"The Associated Friends
of Soviet Russia."
"One of many front organisations."
"Provided a showcase
for potential agents."
"Here, John Grubb could spot those ready
for what's named 'further development'."
"Among them was one
Captain Donald Class."
"A member of the Royal
Canadian Air Force."
"Stationed in Ottawa."
Now, I have no desire.
Other than to see the
war quickly concluded.
With an allied victory.
And.
The sooner we open a second front ..
The sooner we will have peace.
Ladies and gentlemen.
To our Soviet friends.
"In addition to the front organisations,
there were small, private gatherings."
"Known as study groups."
"Here, Communist philosophy
and techniques were studied."
"And the writings of Marx, Engels
and Lenin were read and discussed."
"John Grubb knew that Donald Class
belonged to such a group."
"He passed Class on to Leonard Leitz."
"Now it was Leitz's job to see if Class
he had been mentally developed .."
"To the point where he could be of
practical service the Soviet Union."
I ..
I hope you don't mind my taking you
away from Karl Marx, Captain.
I know him by heart.
- Good.
I'm glad to see you never
miss a study group meeting.
I can't think of anything
more important.
Still editing the Military Journal?
- Yes, sir.
Your work must bring you in contact with
people engaged in secret war projects.
Yes, sir.
How many of them would you say are ..
Sympathetic to us?
I've met several.
At various study groups.
Anyone in the National Research Council?
Yes.
Warren Blair.
He's in the radio lab.
Will Hollis. He's in radar.
Sit down, Captain.
Captain Class.
All kinds of people come to
these Marxist study groups.
They fall into two categories.
First, there are the "talkers".
They of course are the
loudest, the most emotional.
To some, Marxism is a
kind of a game they play.
To rid them of their frustrations.
To others, it's a kind
of a fashionable cult.
We know them for what they are.
Essentially unreliable.
Basically, cowards.
Then there are the "doers".
They never have too much to say.
One can feel in them the
fanaticism of the true believer.
They understand the deadly
earnestness of the class struggle.
And are ready to make
every sacrifice for it.
Unfortunately.
There are not too many "doers".
Captain.
You can be of service to our party.
Providing your ..
Loyalty is great enough.
Let the party try me.
It will.
"Within a few weeks, Captain Donald
Class was an active Soviet agent."
"Through him, Gouzenko's files were
fattened with new registration cards."
"Foster."
"Ernst. Leader."
"The professor. Prometheus."
"Eli, Gray, Frieda, Gaia and others."
"All Canadians. All party members."
"Now they were able to get all
kinds of top secret information."
"Helen Tweedy."
"Code name: Nelly."
"Employed as a clerk in the
Department of External Affairs."
"Through her they were able to invade
the most secret diplomatic files."
"In that way, getting vital information
other governments entrusted to Canada."
"The web kept growing in size."
"And efficiency."
[ Door knocks ]
Major Kulin?
[ Door knocks ]
Come in.
Come in, Gouzenko. Have a drink.
Sorry, I haven't time right now.
I've got some news for you.
News. News. The world is
full of news these days.
But this is something I think ..
- Don't get excited about it.
That's what's important.
And don't believe everything you hear.
- This just came from Moscow.
Then you must believe it.
Every word of it.
If you don't, Ranov will get after you.
I don't like Ranov.
Watch out for him, my boy.
These pencil-pushers always
make trouble for us soldiers.
He doesn't frighten me.
Not when I'm drunk.
Listen, Comrade Major.
Our wives are arriving.
The day after tomorrow.
Oh no.
What time?
11:30.
If we're lucky, the train will be late.
Very late.
Comrade Major.
My wife will be on that train.
Your wife was never a
Captain in the Red Army.
I hope you had a pleasant journey.
No more until we get to our flat.
We have a flat?
Three rooms. All our own.
No.
Yes. Three rooms.
Dr Norman?
- Yes.
I'm Leonard Leitz, MP from Montreal.
- How do you do.
My friend Dr Vincent wrote me you were
coming to work at the Research Council.
I took it upon myself to
welcome you to Canada.
That's very kind of you.
And then after San Francisco we
passed through Chicago and New York.
The buildings, Igor.
I was made dizzy by the size of them.
Upstairs.
Yes.
Welcome home, Anna.
Igor.
There is the bedroom.
There.
Oh, it's beautiful.
I don't know what to say.
Don't say anything now.
We have lots of time.
I can't wait.
I've got to tell you something.
I've been waiting weeks to tell you.
Is something wrong?
- Oh no. Very wonderful.
I'm going to have a baby.
Anna.
"The months passed
quickly for the Gouzenkos."
"It was spring."
"Whenever he had time away from the
embassy they would go for long walks."
"Exploring what to
them was a strange .."
"Sometimes disturbing .."
"Sometimes puzzling, world."
The fact is, these people are
politically uneducated.
They have no leadership
to help them think.
Either they don't think at all
or they think as they please.
It isn't any wonder they get confused.
But you haven't yet told me one thing.
Ask me anything.
Do you want a boy or a girl?
Here I'm being totally brilliant
on what's wrong with democracy ..
Somehow, I'm not very
interested tonight.
Answer my question.
Naturally. Everybody wants a boy first.
Boys have a better future.
They grow up to be men.
[ Door knocks ]
Good evening.
No, please don't get up.
I just popped by to ask you to
try a piece of this apple pie.
Oh, I had such luck with it.
It turned out simply delicious.
That's very kind of you.
Not at all. It was too much
for Albert and me anyhow.
I've seen you often enough
before but we've never met.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Igor, this is Mrs Foster.
Our neighbor.
How do you do.
Are you feeling alright?
I'm very well, thank you.
- Oh, good.
Now, don't forget to call
me if you need anything.
Goodnight.
- Goodnight.
Goodnight.
- Goodnight.
Anna.
I can't help it if she wants to be
friendly. I'm here all day alone.
Anna, you've been told
time and time again.
We must not fraternise with Canadians.
But this is so ..
- We won't talk about it anymore.
We'll do as we're told.
You'll keep that woman out
of this house from now on.
I'm sorry, dear.
But we must be very careful.
You know that.
I'm old at being careful.
[ Telephone ]
Igor Gouzenko here.
Yes, immediately, Comrade Colonel.
That was Trigorin.
He wants me down at
the embassy right away.
Something urgent has come up, he said.
Couldn't it wait until morning?
Of course.
But it's like the army.
You hurry here so you
can wait longer there.
It's snowing out. Put a
scarf around your neck.
I'll get a taxi.
If I can.
It worries me.
Leaving you here all alone.
I'll be alright.
Are you sure of that?
Of course.
The doctor said it would
be at least a week more.
Doctors are sometimes wrong.
Stop worrying, Igor.
I feel very well.
Get your work done and hurry home.
I'll keep the bed warm for you.
I'll hurry.
Urgent. To the Director.
The Professor reported that the director
of the Chemical Research committee ..
Stacy.
Told him about the new
plant under construction.
The plant will produce uranium.
As a result of experiments
being carried out ..
It has been found that uranium
may be used filling bombs.
The Americans have developed
wide research work.
Having invested in this
business 660 million dollars.
Grant.
This goes to Moscow
right away. It's urgent.
Everything is always urgent.
Especially getting back to bed.
Someday I'll put a telephone book
under my shirt. He'll never notice it.
Try it and see.
Wait a minute.
There is a message for you.
It came about an hour ago but
I had orders not to disturb you.
Your wife is at St Vincent Hospital.
She has given birth to a 7 pound,
6 ounce boy. Both are doing well.
A boy!
"Colonel Trigorin's uranium message
got an immediate reaction from Moscow."
"This project was given precedence
over every other activity."
Do you know a scientist
codenamed "Alec"?
Alec?
Yes.
We met him when he arrived
from England some months ago.
He's considered a brilliant scientist.
- Good.
This just arrived from Moscow.
Read it.
"Alec is a very valuable source."
"And therefore conduct this operation
with as great a caution as possible."
"He is a co-operant."
"I consider it best to establish
contact through Paul."
"Director."
He may be politically confused.
He may need re-educating.
We can't afford to waste time.
The Director has given the
uranium project top priority.
I'll take care of it myself.
What is his code greeting?
"Best regards from Michael."
Yes?
Dr Harold Norman?
Yes.
Best regards from Michael.
Come in please.
Who are you?
I am "Paul".
And you are Alec.
You have comfortable quarters here.
You can't look at those papers.
They are top secret.
I wouldn't know what they meant
if I looked at them all night.
But you do.
That's why I am here.
- There is nothing I can tell you.
You are working in the laboratory
of the National Research Council?
Yes.
You are part of the
atomic energy project?
What of it?
You have a nice phonograph.
And Shostakovich.
[ Music playing loud: Shostakovich ]
Sit down, doctor.
Sit down.
Let's be comfortable while we listen.
Beautiful, beautiful.
The first flowering of a
true proletarian culture.
Or have you gone over
to the capitalist enemy?
We are allies now.
Russia. England. The United States.
It's a people's war
against the fascists.
Don't be blinded by this alliance.
The interests of capitalism and
communism can never be the same.
As a friend of the worker.
As a scientist who has
dedicated his life to mankind.
You would know that.
You didn't come here to tell me that.
What do you want?
Detailed notes on everything having
to do with the atomic project.
Samples of uranium.
Impossible.
We are too closely watched.
This is the most secret
project in history.
As a member of the party you willingly
assumed certain responsibilities.
In the past you never gave us
reason to question your loyalty.
But you don't understand.
This is no ordinary explosive.
This is a force as powerful as nature.
Uncontrolled.
It could destroy the world.
- Exactly.
That's why we must all have it.
Don't you see? Then
they will not dare use it.
Think of it, Dr Norman.
You and others like you.
Can help bring peace to the world.
Peace.
And a chance for decent people
to build a new free world.
You can't refuse, Dr Norman.
It will be your contribution
to the safety of mankind.
The safety of mankind?
"Neutron."
"Plutonium."
"Chain reaction."
"Fission."
"These were new words to Gouzenko."
"Words of a new atomic age being born in
the laboratories of Canada and the USA."
"Dr Norman worked at all of them."
"Oak Ridge in Tennessee.
Hanford in Washington."
"Chalk River and Petawawa in Canada."
"The new words were in his report
to the Soviet Military Attach?."
"Shortly after Germany collapsed
Dr Norman provided Colonel Trigorin .."
"With ten pages of information on the
production process of the atomic bomb."
"As a sample."
"He also handed over a specimen tube
with 162 micrograms of uranium 233."
"This atomic information,
still classified as Top Secret .."
"Was considered so important
that it was carried by hand to Moscow."
Jump in, doctor.
I told you I'd call you,
when I had some.
I have something for you.
What?
You are being sent back to England.
How do you know?
We know.
Do you deny it?
- No.
I ..
I just heard it myself.
I was going to tell you.
In a few days you will
receive instructions ..
About contacting one of
our men in London.
You will give him any
additional information you have.
And all the new
information you will get.
I've done about all I can.
This whole business is
extremely painful to me.
You are becoming a
sentimentalist, Dr Norman.
You will receive further instructions
within the next few days.
"Finally it was over."
"The tired world sang and
danced and laughed."
"Perhaps at last there would
be peace in our time."
There must be no misconceptions ..
About our relations with
our former capitalist allies.
Our interests.
Can never coincide.
Our roles and aims ..
Are quite different.
We have no place for
bourgeois sentimentalism.
Only.
Relentless .. realism.
The class struggle will continue.
Until this decadent ..
Plutocratic democracy ..
Is as completely destroyed ..
As National Socialism.
Therefore, you ..
The representatives of the
Soviet Union in Canada.
Will, as always, remain ..
Vigilant.
Suspicious.
And aloof.
That will be all.
Hello. Did you have a nice time?
Yes, thank you.
Was Andre alright?
Not a peep out of him.
That's a wonderful boy you have there,
Mr Gouzenko. A real little gentleman.
Thank you.
Is there something wrong, Mr Gouzenko?
Oh no. That is ..
My husband isn't feeling very well.
Oh. Well if it's his stomach I've got ..
No thank you. He'll be alright
if I get him to bed right away.
In that case I'll run along this minute.
You were very kind to put up with Andre.
Oh, not at all.
I might just as well sit here
as in my own apartment.
You sure that I can't do anything?
If it's a headache ..
Thank you. Nothing. Goodnight.
Oh, very well.
I hope you feel better. Goodnight.
Anna.
What could I do? You
telephone me at the last moment ..
Tell me I must come to the embassy
immediately for a special meeting.
I can't leave Andre alone.
Somebody must look after him.
Be grateful you have kind neighbors.
Anna.
You must understand, I'm not the one ..
- You know nothing.
He sleeps so peacefully.
I'm sorry if I shouted at you but ..
Poor little fellow.
It would be a pity to have him grow
up thinking the world is his enemy.
By then everything will be better.
Are you sure, Igor?
Are you sure?
Anna.
I listened to Ranov the other night.
And suddenly.
Suddenly I was sick inside.
These people are not our enemies.
They are our friends.
It is we who are acting like enemies.
Anna.
You must not say these things to me.
I can't help it.
I'm afraid.
For him.
For you.
For me.
Before I came here, I ..
I believed everything.
Now, I ..
I can't even understand.
We are simple people, Anna.
We can't understand everything.
We must have faith in our leaders.
We must understand, Igor.
We must.
If I've learned anything here, Igor.
I've learned that no human being
should ever be forced to live in fear.
Igor.
- No more, Anna.
You must not talk like that
anymore. I won't listen to you.
[ Radio: ]
"A wave of jubilation and thanksgiving
sweeps the cities of the land .."
"At the news of Japan's surrender."
"San Francisco has
gone absolutely wild."
"Market Street is jam packed with
countless thousands of men and women .."
"Celebrating the end of the war."
"Thousands of servicemen waiting
to be shipped to the Pacific."
"Many of them veterans
of the war in Europe."
"Know their shooting days are done."
"And are they tearing the town apart."
"And who can blame them because .."
"Peace."
"Isn't it wonderful?"
"To Grant."
"Take measures to organise acquisition
of extra documents on the atomic bomb."
"Present information incomplete."
"We must have in detail
the technical process."
"And drawings and
calculations. Director."
There is no questioning
the urgency of the order.
We are doing what we can.
- It is not enough.
You will contact every agent and
alert them for atomic information.
That is all.
Gouzenko will remain.
Oh, Gouzenko.
A telegraph to The Director.
We ..
We have alerted every agent to ..
That fantastic mushroom over Hiroshima.
I saw the newsreel pictures.
I can't get them out of my mind.
A beautiful poisonous mushroom.
What a weapon.
I wish I knew more about it.
One little bomb that makes a
desert on which nothing can live.
What more need you know?
Sometimes, I think you're
a great fool, Kulin.
Gouzenko.
Do you think I'm a great fool?
Don't look at him, look at me.
Consider me carefully.
I've blood on both hands and I sleep
with dead faces on my eyeballs.
You have my permission
to shut up, Kulin.
Gouzenko, I told you.
Look at me.
See if you can look into my mind.
We are defending Kharkov.
It's snowing.
There is blood to wade through.
I ask for volunteers for
a dangerous patrol.
No-one volunteers.
I shoot ten good Russians
between the eyes.
Shoot them dead.
The eleventh volunteers.
I have no more trouble and I
have all the volunteers I could use.
Kulin!
As a man, I am called a "sadist".
But what of governments that pile up dead
and justify murder as a means to an end?
What name do you call them?
You.
You simple Russian soul.
You'll answer me.
You are making it very
difficult for him my friend.
Don't force me to send
you back to Russia.
You.
Gouzenko.
Did you hear that?
The threat of threats.
To be sent back to Russia.
Why should it have such
an ominous sound?
Like the ring of mourning bells
or the executioner's volley.
Why?
Why? Have you figured it out? Why?
Why?
Go to your quarters.
Consider yourself under arrest.
Yes.
It's about time.
I can't stomach it anymore.
An efficient firing squad
will solve all my problems.
It takes too long to
drink oneself to death.
Too long.
Gouzenko.
You have a good record, Gouzenko.
It will stay that way unless you repeat
a single word of what happened here.
File this.
I've got to talk to you, Comrade Major.
Go away.
Why do you say you can't
stomach it anymore?
What is it makes you willing to ..
To face a firing squad?
I'm drunk.
I never know what I say when I'm drunk.
Tell me, Kulin.
You are the son of one of the
great heroes of the revolution.
Your father was close to Lenin.
You're turning away from
everything he stands for.
Why?
My father was once a great
revolutionary Marxist.
Today, he pays for a living by
saying what he's told to say.
Kulin.
You know more than I.
Do you think there is
going to be another war?
War is part of a process leading towards
a general upheaval throughout the world.
That will result in the establishment
of world communism.
There mustn't be another war.
Never again.
Listen, Kulin.
There must be another way.
Tell me the truth.
Truth?
What's that?
I used to know when
I was a very little boy.
You don't know.
You will never know.
You were born too late.
It is enough to make even a sadist cry.
But listen to me.
I've got a son.
And I want to do what's right.
- Go away, you simple Russian.
They'll send you back too,
if they catch you talking to me.
Go away.
"The truth .. you don't know."
"You were born too late."
"I've learned that no human being
should ever be forced to live in fear."
"Our roles and aims
are quite different."
"The class struggle will continue."
"These people are not our enemies."
"Don't force me to send
you back to Russia."
"Today, he pays for a living
by saying what he's told to say."
"What of governments that pile up dead
and justify murder as a means to an end?"
[ Anna: ]
"Please understand me .. for his sake."
"For his sake. For his sake."
"For his sake."
Igor?
What's wrong?
Everything.
I was just talking to Kulin.
They're sending him home, Anna.
That was bound to happen.
He drinks too much.
He drinks to forget.
Forget what?
Himself.
His father.
Once, Kulin had great
respect for his father.
Now he has only contempt.
He's sick.
Sick with disappointment.
That's a terrible thing
for a father to do to a son.
I mustn't do that to Andre.
I must think now for him too.
I must tell him what kind of
a world I want him to live in.
What kind of man I want him to be.
Someday I'll have to answer to him.
And I want to be able to face him
without being afraid or ashamed.
Maybe I'm wrong.
But from what I've seen and learned.
I've decided there is only
one thing for us to do.
Anna.
We will not go back to Russia.
"In the weeks that followed,
Gouzenko formulated a plan."
"He selected certain key
documents from his secret file."
"He very carefully marked each one."
The Colonel wants to see
you in his office immediately.
Thanks.
What are you doing?
Just straightening out my files.
Pretty busy, eh?
Very busy.
- No rest for the wicked, huh?
Igor.
My old friend, I'm glad to see you.
Sergeyev. When did you arrive?
- Today.
Sergeyev is your replacement.
You are returning to Russia.
Immediately?
As soon as you have shown Lieutenant
Sergeyev everything he should know.
You will work together from now on.
Yes, Comrade Colonel.
- That's all.
Comrade Gouzenko.
I hear you are going home.
Yes.
Are you happy?
Why shouldn't I be happy?
You might at least introduce me, Igor.
He's not very polite, is he.
Comrade Sergeyev - Comrade Karanova.
We will see more of each other I hope.
You will.
"Gouzenko realised that from now
on his replacement, Sergeyev .."
"Would be continually at his side."
"To complete his plan, he needed
to take immediate action."
"That same night he
returned to the embassy."
What are you doing?
- Cleaning out my files.
Good.
I hope Sergeyev is as efficient as you.
Gouzenko, send this off tonight.
To Moscow. Right away.
Right away. Right away?
What is it, a declaration of war?
You get grumpier every day.
I need excitement.
Then why don't you lock up the place
and come and see a move with me?
Nobody would know the difference.
Except you.
Go along now before I report you for
trying to make me neglect my duties.
Quitting already?
- Yes.
Come here.
What do you want?
If I was going home ..
I'd take a pocket full
of watches with me.
I'd be a Colonel in
no time, I'll bet you.
Good idea. Goodnight.
Gouzenko.
Well, Gouzenko?
All packed and ready to go?
Yes, Comrade Ranov.
Good.
I'll see you before you leave.
"Gouzenko went directly
to The Justice Building."
"Convinced the information he had must
go to the highest level of government."
"He was determined to see no-one
less that the Minister of Justice."
[ Door knocks ]
Who is it?
Igor.
I went to The Justice Department.
There was nobody there but a sentry.
I couldn't tell him anything.
How could I trust him?
They'll be searching for you
at 12 tomorrow. - I know.
I'll go back to the Justice Department
first thing in the morning.
You and Andre will come with me.
I won't leave you here alone.
We'll come.
What are those?
Diaries.
Cables to and from Moscow.
Agents reports on the atomic bomb.
High explosives, radar. False passports.
Even notes on the secret meeting between
Roosevelt and Churchill in Canada.
A hundred documents.
The whole story in the
agent's own handwriting.
What they've been doing in Canada.
They will surely kill you
when they find out.
I tell you the minister will not see you
unless you tell me what you have.
But you must understand please.
I cannot tell my business to
anyone but the minister himself.
Why not?
It's a matter of great secrecy.
It involves the Canadian
and Russian governments.
The minister is in his other office.
At the Parliament buildings.
Perhaps if you go there ..?
Thank you. We will go there.
Trigorin here.
Have you telephoned his apartment?
Strange.
Call me when he gets in.
Hello Ranov?
Gouzenko is late for work.
Anna, it is after two.
Please, we've been waiting for
two hours. Time is important.
I am terribly sorry but the minister is
running behind with his appointments.
If you can come by tomorrow we
may be able to fit you in somewhere.
No answer.
I'm afraid there are documents
missing from the files.
What kind?
We are checking now.
"Gouzenko was beaten."
"His story was too big, too incredible."
"If the Canadian government
would not listen."
"Then he had risked
everything for nothing."
"Then suddenly he remembered what he had
learned about the Canadian newspapers."
"Their independence, their freedom."
"They were his last hope."
Andre.
Now be a good boy.
Excuse me please.
Can you tell me where
to find the editor?
He's out.
It's very important.
Try the city desk.
In the corner.
I have some very important
information for you.
Sit down.
- No thank you.
I am from the Russian Embassy.
I have some papers
here that can prove it.
Just go ahead. I can listen
to you at the same time.
The papers that will prove
that Soviet Russia ..
Is operating a spy system in Canada.
Go ahead.
This document will prove that one
scientist working on the atomic bomb.
Is giving information to
the Soviet Military Attach?.
There is no time to lose.
Already they are looking for me.
You must print these right away.
Before they kill me.
Sure.
Before they kill you.
Your life is in danger, isn't it?
Well, you take the stuff to the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
They'll take care of you,
and those Russians too.
But the Canadian people should know
as soon as possible what they're ..
Of course they should.
But there is nothing I can do with this.
You must do something.
It's for the safety of your country.
Have you been to the Justice Department?
Yes.
They won't see me.
- Sorry.
If the government won't touch it,
I guess it's too big for us too.
Excuse me.
Who is the unhappy man?
- Some crackpot.
What happened?
They acted as if I were crazy.
They must believe me. They must.
What are we going to do then?
Go home and pack.
You.
You worked with him every day.
Day and night.
Couldn't you feel something
was happening to him?
Was there no hint of anything?
The Secret Police takes
care of feelings and hints.
He may have gone directly to the police.
If so, we demand he be turned over to
the embassy immediately as a deserter.
We will say he stole embassy funds.
And we'll be in the newspapers. We'll
be investigated. We'll be arrested.
Friends we have developed.
Will be frightened away.
Organisations that we have built.
Will collapse.
And the work of many years.
My work.
Will be completely wasted.
We have checked every hotel.
We are watching the rail-road
station, bus stations, the airport.
The main highways.
There's no way Gouzenko and his family
can leave Ottawa without being seen.
What about his apartment?
- He wouldn't dare go back there.
Where else could he go?
He can't walk the streets of Ottawa all
day and night with a wife and an infant.
He would eventually go home.
Realising you are too stupid to
believe he would dare go there.
We will go to his apartment.
They will come here. Any minute now.
You must take Andre some
place where he will be safe.
A hotel in some other city.
- You will come also?
I must be here when they come.
But they'll kill you.
- Anna.
It's you and Andre I'm doing this for.
Please don't make it worthless.
You will pack now, Anna.
Take this. I'll get you more.
Go to the Royal Hotel.
Wait for me there.
If I'm not there within ..
[ Door knocks ]
Gouzenko.
Gouzenko.
[ Baby crying ]
[ Door knocks ]
[ Door knocks ]
Vinikov.
Has he gone?
- No.
Anna, we won't be able to leave now.
Come with me. Hurry.
You and Andre will go to Mrs Foster's
next door and wait there.
If anything should happen to me,
turn these over to the police.
Tell them the whole story.
I won't go without you.
- Anna, please. There is no time.
Come on.
Please hurry. This is no
time to talk. Come on.
Hurry.
Hello there.
Go in. Go in.
[ Door knocks ]
[ Door knocks ]
Gouzenko.
[ Door knocks ]
Gouzenko.
We know you are there.
Let us in.
Good evening, Comrade Gouzenko.
Sit down.
We were worried about you, Gouzenko.
Thought perhaps you were ill.
You are ill, aren't you.
You must be.
You've been working too hard.
Had a nervous breakdown.
Your mind is temporarily
affected, isn't it.
Have you lost your tongue too?
We will help you to find it if we must.
Your mind snapped. That's what happened.
You didn't want to leave
this lovely apartment.
This plenitude of food.
This easy living.
You couldn't face going back to Russia.
So your mind snapped, didn't it.
Don't be stubborn, Gouzenko.
You need only return those unimportant
papers you took while you were so upset.
It will be all forgotten.
I haven't got the papers.
Where are they?
- Comrade Colonel.
We must be patient with
a person who is sick.
You see, Gouzenko?
We don't want to harm you.
You understand?
Now, where are the documents?
Are they here?
Search.
Stand up!
Trigorin, must I remind you that
you?re are speaking to a sick man?
Help Bushkin, please.
Where is your wife and son?
You don't really expect me to
answer that question, do you?
I was just curious.
There is no use searching here.
It is obvious that his wife has
the papers wherever she is.
That should not be too
difficult to find out.
Trigorin is not as patient as I am.
Or as understanding.
Perhaps it will be better
if we all go to the embassy.
I'm not going to the embassy, Ranov.
I'm not going anywhere
outside this house.
Alive.
You are sick.
Aren't you.
Sick, maybe.
Sick like Major Kulin was sick.
You have a father, Gouzenko.
You have a mother,
a brother and a sister.
Your wife has a mother,
a father and two sisters.
All live in Russia.
- They've nothing to do with it.
Exactly.
They have nothing to do with this.
And yet ..
You didn't think of them, did you.
You didn't think of what
might happen to them.
We heard them break in!
We called the police.
What's going on in here?
Who are you?
We are from the Soviet Embassy.
Gouzenko is one of our employees.
He was ordered to return to Russia but
he decided to disobey orders and desert.
Naturally, we couldn't permit that.
We came here to ..
To reason with him.
They came her to kill him.
What have you got to say about this?
What's happened to you?
Why don't you speak?
Anna.
Go and get the documents.
This is a most embarrassing
situation, officer.
As I say, this man is a Russian national
who refused to return to his homeland.
Actually I think he is ill.
In any event this is strictly an
embassy problem of no concern to ..
Anna.
Give them to the officer.
Those documents are Soviet property!
They were stolen from
the Soviet Embassy.
I must warn you.
Unless you return the papers immediately
I shall report you to your government.
This is kinda getting over
my head. I don't know ..
Officer.
Those are not only papers.
They are a death warrant.
When I gave them to
you I sentenced myself ..
And my family and my
wife's family to execution.
We must all die sooner or later
so it doesn't really matter.
It's how we die and why
we die that is important.
Take them away with you.
And take my wife and child.
This man is insane.
As a representative of
the Soviet Government.
I demand that you hand
me those documents.
You say they were stolen?
- Yes.
Stolen property must be identified
and claimed at Police Headquarters.
That's the law.
You will hear from my government.
We will go now.
You must not let them go.
They'll come back!
They will never rest ..
- Anna. Anna.
Please be quiet.
We have nothing more to say.
We'll give you protective custody until
the government looks into these things.
Come along.
Oh, Igor.
They are going to listen to you.
They are going to listen to you.
If you run out you admit guilt.
That puts the whole party on the spot.
You've got to fight this thing
on the floor of the Commons.
Use every parliamentary trick you know.
You've got to stir up
the front organisations.
And sympathetic newspapers
and periodicals.
Stop them howling about forgeries.
About witch-hunts.
About violations of democratic rights.
That's fine.
But what if they send me to prison?
You will be a martyr.
And, by the time you get out.
You will be a hero.
And will you be a hero along with me?
The party comes first.
What about Igor Gouzenko?
If he goes unpunished.
Others might do the same.
Don't be too unhappy, Leitz.
We'll name a city after you.
When we take over.
"Moscow. Urgent."
"The following members of the staff of
the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa Canada."
"Will return without delay to Moscow."
"Comrade Nina Karanova."
"Comrade Lieutenant Josef Sergeyev."
"Comrade Colonel Aleksandr Trigorin."
"Comrade Ilya .."
"Ranov."
Comrade Kulin will be pleased to see us.
"Leonard Leitz found guilty."
"Sentenced to six years."
"Helen Tweedy pleaded guilty."
"Sentenced to three years."
"Donald Class found guilty."
"Sentenced to five years."
"Dr Harold Preston Norman."
"Pleaded guilty.
Sentenced to ten years."
"William W. Hollis."
"Found guilty. Sentenced to four years."
"Of the eighteen arrested,
two pleaded guilty."
"And eight were convicted."
"Today, Igor Gouzenko and his
family live somewhere in Canada."
"By special act, a grateful
country has granted them .."
"All manners and liberties."
"Franchises and privileges
of our Dominion of Canada."
"And they use and enjoy same freely .."
"Quietly .. and peaceably."
"As British subjects."
"But they cannot enjoy these rights."
"Their lives in danger, they live in
hiding under the constant protect?on .."
"Of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police."
"Yet they have not
lost fa?th in the future."
"They know that ultimate
security for themselves .."
"And their children
lies in the survival .."
"Of the democratic way of life."
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"Early in 1943 a regularly
scheduled flight .."
"Of a commercial airline was
coming in from the west."
"Carrying three passengers
from Soviet Russia."
"They had left Moscow
about one week before."
"Had landed at Fairbanks, Alaska."
"And were now on their way to
Ottawa, the capital of Canada."
"One of the passengers was
Colonel Aleksandr Trigorin."
"The new military attach? to the
Soviet Embassy in Canada."
"The other was Major Semyon Kulin."
"His aide and secretary."
"The third was Igor Gouzenko."
"A specially trained cypher
clerk and decoding expert."
"It was Gouzenko's first
time out of Soviet Russia."
"As soon as they landed they
were taken to the Soviet Embassy."
"Interviewed by Ilya Ranov."
"Second secretary of the
embassy and Chief of the NKVD."
"The Soviet Secret Police."
I am now in a foreign country and
must always be alert against enemies.
I must be careful of all
manner of acquaintanceship.
I mustn't engage in cordial conversation
with any foreigner whatsoever.
Never borrow money from a foreigner.
In my apartment, I must be respectful
to neighbors but make no friends.
I must never permit myself to be more
drunk than either my guests or my host.
A sober brain, a firm
tongue and alertness.
These things must always be with
me when I'm with foreigners.
Where were you born?
- Kovachova.
You were in the Red Army?
Yes.
- What branch?
Military Intelligence. Cypher division.
I had training in coding and decoding at
the Secret Intelligence School, Moscow.
I am also a member of the
Young Communist League.
What is your duty here?
Cypher clerk. Military Attach?'s office.
What do you know about this idiot?
He was assigned to me by
Headquarters Military Intelligence.
Before you left Moscow, you were given
answers to the questions I just asked.
Why didn't you use them?
Sorry, Comrade Ranov.
I thought with you ..
You will give those answers
to everyone, no matter who.
You will think, eat, sleep, breathe
those answers until you know no others.
Where were you were born?
- In the town of Gorky, Steroniv Street.
What school?
- Economics Technical Institute.
What is your duty?
I am employed by the military
attach? as translator and secretary.
Have you ever been a soldier?
- No. Never.
That's better.
I give only one warning.
As a cypher clerk you are
a fountain of information.
No-one, not even members
of the Embassy staff.
Must know who you are
and what you're work is.
No-one will know.
One more thing.
You'll be wise never to forget that even
on foreign soil you're a Soviet citizen.
And soldier.
I could never forget that Comrade Ranov.
We will see.
Bushkin will take you
to the cypher section.
That's all.
Karanova, come in please.
My secretary, Nina Karanova.
Colonel Trigorin.
Major Kulin.
An unexpected pleasure.
Will you have dinner with me tonight?
Karanova.
You will handle this matter yourself.
Yes, Comrade Ranov.
You haven't answered my question.
A cold fish, isn't she.
The bell is here.
Comrade Lieutenant Vinikov.
This is Lieutenant Igor Gouzenko.
The new military attach? cypher clerk.
He is yours from now on.
I hope you like music.
Ranov's cypher clerk uses that room.
That one belongs to the
diplomatic cypher clerk.
This is the wash-room.
The small incinerator is in
the far room to your left.
The large one to the right.
This is yours.
No-one is permitted in this section
excepted authorised persons.
You will give me all
messages for transmission.
When you've finished
with the code books.
Give them to the chief of the cypher
section who will put them in his safe.
He's the only one that
knows the combination.
When your day's work is done.
Every scrap of paper must be burnt.
Every drawer.
And the door of the safe must be
sealed with the Top Secret seal.
And don't ask me why "the
church" means Top Secret.
I don't know.
You will take no papers from this room
without showing them to me first.
And don't ask to have
the music turned off.
It is a rule.
The music must always play.
So no-one can hear what's
being said in the other offices.
I hate music.
"Karanova, Ranov's secretary, was
extremely friendly with Gouzenko."
"She had introduced herself to him.
Offered to help find him an apartment."
"On his first night in Ottawa they
met in front of the Ch?teau Laurier."
"They went to a gay restaurant."
"Gouzenko discovered that
Canadians were a happy people."
"Who even in wartime seemed
to enjoy themselves."
"They danced until closing time."
"And then they went to her apartment."
Why, this is your apartment?
Uhuh.
You live here all alone?
Alone.
This is good enough for a Commissar.
I spend every penny I
earn on this apartment.
Do you think you could
find me one like it?
Well I'll try. I'll ask the
manager in the morning.
Pour yourself a drink.
I'll be right back.
Living must be cheap over here.
It was cheaper in Tokyo.
Did you live there?
In the Soviet Embassy.
Berlin, too.
Were you a secretary in Berlin?
And in Tokyo.
I was trained for diplomatic service.
Perhaps we went to the same school.
I went to the Economic
Technical Institute.
Any others?
Did you have a drink?
I'll have another.
And you?
No more tonight.
Well, you expect me.
You must be very tired.
It was a long journey.
Here. Let me make you more comfortable.
Look. I might fall asleep.
When do you begin work?
Tomorrow.
Is your office in the embassy?
Yes.
Then we'll see lots of each other.
Have another drink?
You have plenty?
- Oh.
Here in Canada there is
plenty of everything.
It's always been very quiet.
At the Military Attach?'s office.
The arrival of men like you and ..
Colonel Trigorin.
Promise great changes.
Does it?
But of course.
That's wonderful.
It makes the stomach dance.
I'm getting sleepy.
Well then, rest.
Tomorrow you will have
to work very hard.
There will be messages.
Many secret messages.
Is that true?
I am a very important person.
With all kinds of important secrets.
I'll tell you one.
My wife is very beautiful.
More beautiful than I?
Hers is a quiet kind of beauty.
Soft and warm.
And mine?
Your beauty is a thing
carved out of granite.
No body or soul.
You are being unfriendly now.
Why?
You're not very clever.
You've been away from Russia too long.
Experience has provided new techniques.
You should learn them.
For one thing, never
ask direct questions.
And for another.
You should never bring a Russian
to a place like this for questioning.
It might dull the wits of the Canadians
but to Russians it means only one thing.
It would be better.
Not to make an enemy
of me, Comrade Gouzenko.
I don't want to make an enemy of you any
more than I want you make a fool of me.
I drink vodka like a true Russian.
I love my wife.
And I thank you for everything.
And of course you will tell the truth
about me because if you don't ..
I'll have to tell how easy it
was to see through you.
Goodnight.
I was born in the town of Gorky.
On Steroniv Street.
I was never a soldier.
"In days Gouzenko settled down to
the job for which he had been trained."
"The very first message he decoded
ordered Trigorin and Ranov."
"To meet someone codenamed .."
"Paul."
"Paul's registration card
was in the secret file."
"Surname: John Grubb."
"Canadian citizen."
"Codename: 'Paul'."
"Detailed material on his biography is
recorded in files in the Comintern."
Get in, gentlemen.
I've been expecting you, Trigorin.
Welcome to Canada.
It is time you know.
It is time they sent someone competent.
Canada is important.
It will be more important
when we've won this war.
Do you understand that?
Did they tell you that?
My orders are to build
a large organisation.
A "large organisation".
What's that?
A mass of people swarming like bees?
Or a few smart ones in the right places?
Our requirements are quite extensive.
For example.
Moscow must know what chance there is
to get a man on the General Staff level.
They're mad.
They'll be asking for
the Prime Minister next.
Not until his name is John Grubb.
Canada is not yet ready for me.
You're not dealing with
an amateur, Colonel.
I founded the party in Canada in 1920.
I am a graduate of the Lenin school.
For your information.
I take my orders directly from Moscow.
Not from the embassy.
I sometimes need to
remind Ranov of that.
No.
You need people in the right places.
The Army, the Air Force, the Navy.
The National Research Council.
The Department of External Affairs.
This is a general list of
required information.
Stop here.
They are asking for a lot.
They'll get it.
Goodnight, gentlemen.
House of Commons. Members Entrance.
Good evening, John.
"The Associated Friends
of Soviet Russia."
"One of many front organisations."
"Provided a showcase
for potential agents."
"Here, John Grubb could spot those ready
for what's named 'further development'."
"Among them was one
Captain Donald Class."
"A member of the Royal
Canadian Air Force."
"Stationed in Ottawa."
Now, I have no desire.
Other than to see the
war quickly concluded.
With an allied victory.
And.
The sooner we open a second front ..
The sooner we will have peace.
Ladies and gentlemen.
To our Soviet friends.
"In addition to the front organisations,
there were small, private gatherings."
"Known as study groups."
"Here, Communist philosophy
and techniques were studied."
"And the writings of Marx, Engels
and Lenin were read and discussed."
"John Grubb knew that Donald Class
belonged to such a group."
"He passed Class on to Leonard Leitz."
"Now it was Leitz's job to see if Class
he had been mentally developed .."
"To the point where he could be of
practical service the Soviet Union."
I ..
I hope you don't mind my taking you
away from Karl Marx, Captain.
I know him by heart.
- Good.
I'm glad to see you never
miss a study group meeting.
I can't think of anything
more important.
Still editing the Military Journal?
- Yes, sir.
Your work must bring you in contact with
people engaged in secret war projects.
Yes, sir.
How many of them would you say are ..
Sympathetic to us?
I've met several.
At various study groups.
Anyone in the National Research Council?
Yes.
Warren Blair.
He's in the radio lab.
Will Hollis. He's in radar.
Sit down, Captain.
Captain Class.
All kinds of people come to
these Marxist study groups.
They fall into two categories.
First, there are the "talkers".
They of course are the
loudest, the most emotional.
To some, Marxism is a
kind of a game they play.
To rid them of their frustrations.
To others, it's a kind
of a fashionable cult.
We know them for what they are.
Essentially unreliable.
Basically, cowards.
Then there are the "doers".
They never have too much to say.
One can feel in them the
fanaticism of the true believer.
They understand the deadly
earnestness of the class struggle.
And are ready to make
every sacrifice for it.
Unfortunately.
There are not too many "doers".
Captain.
You can be of service to our party.
Providing your ..
Loyalty is great enough.
Let the party try me.
It will.
"Within a few weeks, Captain Donald
Class was an active Soviet agent."
"Through him, Gouzenko's files were
fattened with new registration cards."
"Foster."
"Ernst. Leader."
"The professor. Prometheus."
"Eli, Gray, Frieda, Gaia and others."
"All Canadians. All party members."
"Now they were able to get all
kinds of top secret information."
"Helen Tweedy."
"Code name: Nelly."
"Employed as a clerk in the
Department of External Affairs."
"Through her they were able to invade
the most secret diplomatic files."
"In that way, getting vital information
other governments entrusted to Canada."
"The web kept growing in size."
"And efficiency."
[ Door knocks ]
Major Kulin?
[ Door knocks ]
Come in.
Come in, Gouzenko. Have a drink.
Sorry, I haven't time right now.
I've got some news for you.
News. News. The world is
full of news these days.
But this is something I think ..
- Don't get excited about it.
That's what's important.
And don't believe everything you hear.
- This just came from Moscow.
Then you must believe it.
Every word of it.
If you don't, Ranov will get after you.
I don't like Ranov.
Watch out for him, my boy.
These pencil-pushers always
make trouble for us soldiers.
He doesn't frighten me.
Not when I'm drunk.
Listen, Comrade Major.
Our wives are arriving.
The day after tomorrow.
Oh no.
What time?
11:30.
If we're lucky, the train will be late.
Very late.
Comrade Major.
My wife will be on that train.
Your wife was never a
Captain in the Red Army.
I hope you had a pleasant journey.
No more until we get to our flat.
We have a flat?
Three rooms. All our own.
No.
Yes. Three rooms.
Dr Norman?
- Yes.
I'm Leonard Leitz, MP from Montreal.
- How do you do.
My friend Dr Vincent wrote me you were
coming to work at the Research Council.
I took it upon myself to
welcome you to Canada.
That's very kind of you.
And then after San Francisco we
passed through Chicago and New York.
The buildings, Igor.
I was made dizzy by the size of them.
Upstairs.
Yes.
Welcome home, Anna.
Igor.
There is the bedroom.
There.
Oh, it's beautiful.
I don't know what to say.
Don't say anything now.
We have lots of time.
I can't wait.
I've got to tell you something.
I've been waiting weeks to tell you.
Is something wrong?
- Oh no. Very wonderful.
I'm going to have a baby.
Anna.
"The months passed
quickly for the Gouzenkos."
"It was spring."
"Whenever he had time away from the
embassy they would go for long walks."
"Exploring what to
them was a strange .."
"Sometimes disturbing .."
"Sometimes puzzling, world."
The fact is, these people are
politically uneducated.
They have no leadership
to help them think.
Either they don't think at all
or they think as they please.
It isn't any wonder they get confused.
But you haven't yet told me one thing.
Ask me anything.
Do you want a boy or a girl?
Here I'm being totally brilliant
on what's wrong with democracy ..
Somehow, I'm not very
interested tonight.
Answer my question.
Naturally. Everybody wants a boy first.
Boys have a better future.
They grow up to be men.
[ Door knocks ]
Good evening.
No, please don't get up.
I just popped by to ask you to
try a piece of this apple pie.
Oh, I had such luck with it.
It turned out simply delicious.
That's very kind of you.
Not at all. It was too much
for Albert and me anyhow.
I've seen you often enough
before but we've never met.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Igor, this is Mrs Foster.
Our neighbor.
How do you do.
Are you feeling alright?
I'm very well, thank you.
- Oh, good.
Now, don't forget to call
me if you need anything.
Goodnight.
- Goodnight.
Goodnight.
- Goodnight.
Anna.
I can't help it if she wants to be
friendly. I'm here all day alone.
Anna, you've been told
time and time again.
We must not fraternise with Canadians.
But this is so ..
- We won't talk about it anymore.
We'll do as we're told.
You'll keep that woman out
of this house from now on.
I'm sorry, dear.
But we must be very careful.
You know that.
I'm old at being careful.
[ Telephone ]
Igor Gouzenko here.
Yes, immediately, Comrade Colonel.
That was Trigorin.
He wants me down at
the embassy right away.
Something urgent has come up, he said.
Couldn't it wait until morning?
Of course.
But it's like the army.
You hurry here so you
can wait longer there.
It's snowing out. Put a
scarf around your neck.
I'll get a taxi.
If I can.
It worries me.
Leaving you here all alone.
I'll be alright.
Are you sure of that?
Of course.
The doctor said it would
be at least a week more.
Doctors are sometimes wrong.
Stop worrying, Igor.
I feel very well.
Get your work done and hurry home.
I'll keep the bed warm for you.
I'll hurry.
Urgent. To the Director.
The Professor reported that the director
of the Chemical Research committee ..
Stacy.
Told him about the new
plant under construction.
The plant will produce uranium.
As a result of experiments
being carried out ..
It has been found that uranium
may be used filling bombs.
The Americans have developed
wide research work.
Having invested in this
business 660 million dollars.
Grant.
This goes to Moscow
right away. It's urgent.
Everything is always urgent.
Especially getting back to bed.
Someday I'll put a telephone book
under my shirt. He'll never notice it.
Try it and see.
Wait a minute.
There is a message for you.
It came about an hour ago but
I had orders not to disturb you.
Your wife is at St Vincent Hospital.
She has given birth to a 7 pound,
6 ounce boy. Both are doing well.
A boy!
"Colonel Trigorin's uranium message
got an immediate reaction from Moscow."
"This project was given precedence
over every other activity."
Do you know a scientist
codenamed "Alec"?
Alec?
Yes.
We met him when he arrived
from England some months ago.
He's considered a brilliant scientist.
- Good.
This just arrived from Moscow.
Read it.
"Alec is a very valuable source."
"And therefore conduct this operation
with as great a caution as possible."
"He is a co-operant."
"I consider it best to establish
contact through Paul."
"Director."
He may be politically confused.
He may need re-educating.
We can't afford to waste time.
The Director has given the
uranium project top priority.
I'll take care of it myself.
What is his code greeting?
"Best regards from Michael."
Yes?
Dr Harold Norman?
Yes.
Best regards from Michael.
Come in please.
Who are you?
I am "Paul".
And you are Alec.
You have comfortable quarters here.
You can't look at those papers.
They are top secret.
I wouldn't know what they meant
if I looked at them all night.
But you do.
That's why I am here.
- There is nothing I can tell you.
You are working in the laboratory
of the National Research Council?
Yes.
You are part of the
atomic energy project?
What of it?
You have a nice phonograph.
And Shostakovich.
[ Music playing loud: Shostakovich ]
Sit down, doctor.
Sit down.
Let's be comfortable while we listen.
Beautiful, beautiful.
The first flowering of a
true proletarian culture.
Or have you gone over
to the capitalist enemy?
We are allies now.
Russia. England. The United States.
It's a people's war
against the fascists.
Don't be blinded by this alliance.
The interests of capitalism and
communism can never be the same.
As a friend of the worker.
As a scientist who has
dedicated his life to mankind.
You would know that.
You didn't come here to tell me that.
What do you want?
Detailed notes on everything having
to do with the atomic project.
Samples of uranium.
Impossible.
We are too closely watched.
This is the most secret
project in history.
As a member of the party you willingly
assumed certain responsibilities.
In the past you never gave us
reason to question your loyalty.
But you don't understand.
This is no ordinary explosive.
This is a force as powerful as nature.
Uncontrolled.
It could destroy the world.
- Exactly.
That's why we must all have it.
Don't you see? Then
they will not dare use it.
Think of it, Dr Norman.
You and others like you.
Can help bring peace to the world.
Peace.
And a chance for decent people
to build a new free world.
You can't refuse, Dr Norman.
It will be your contribution
to the safety of mankind.
The safety of mankind?
"Neutron."
"Plutonium."
"Chain reaction."
"Fission."
"These were new words to Gouzenko."
"Words of a new atomic age being born in
the laboratories of Canada and the USA."
"Dr Norman worked at all of them."
"Oak Ridge in Tennessee.
Hanford in Washington."
"Chalk River and Petawawa in Canada."
"The new words were in his report
to the Soviet Military Attach?."
"Shortly after Germany collapsed
Dr Norman provided Colonel Trigorin .."
"With ten pages of information on the
production process of the atomic bomb."
"As a sample."
"He also handed over a specimen tube
with 162 micrograms of uranium 233."
"This atomic information,
still classified as Top Secret .."
"Was considered so important
that it was carried by hand to Moscow."
Jump in, doctor.
I told you I'd call you,
when I had some.
I have something for you.
What?
You are being sent back to England.
How do you know?
We know.
Do you deny it?
- No.
I ..
I just heard it myself.
I was going to tell you.
In a few days you will
receive instructions ..
About contacting one of
our men in London.
You will give him any
additional information you have.
And all the new
information you will get.
I've done about all I can.
This whole business is
extremely painful to me.
You are becoming a
sentimentalist, Dr Norman.
You will receive further instructions
within the next few days.
"Finally it was over."
"The tired world sang and
danced and laughed."
"Perhaps at last there would
be peace in our time."
There must be no misconceptions ..
About our relations with
our former capitalist allies.
Our interests.
Can never coincide.
Our roles and aims ..
Are quite different.
We have no place for
bourgeois sentimentalism.
Only.
Relentless .. realism.
The class struggle will continue.
Until this decadent ..
Plutocratic democracy ..
Is as completely destroyed ..
As National Socialism.
Therefore, you ..
The representatives of the
Soviet Union in Canada.
Will, as always, remain ..
Vigilant.
Suspicious.
And aloof.
That will be all.
Hello. Did you have a nice time?
Yes, thank you.
Was Andre alright?
Not a peep out of him.
That's a wonderful boy you have there,
Mr Gouzenko. A real little gentleman.
Thank you.
Is there something wrong, Mr Gouzenko?
Oh no. That is ..
My husband isn't feeling very well.
Oh. Well if it's his stomach I've got ..
No thank you. He'll be alright
if I get him to bed right away.
In that case I'll run along this minute.
You were very kind to put up with Andre.
Oh, not at all.
I might just as well sit here
as in my own apartment.
You sure that I can't do anything?
If it's a headache ..
Thank you. Nothing. Goodnight.
Oh, very well.
I hope you feel better. Goodnight.
Anna.
What could I do? You
telephone me at the last moment ..
Tell me I must come to the embassy
immediately for a special meeting.
I can't leave Andre alone.
Somebody must look after him.
Be grateful you have kind neighbors.
Anna.
You must understand, I'm not the one ..
- You know nothing.
He sleeps so peacefully.
I'm sorry if I shouted at you but ..
Poor little fellow.
It would be a pity to have him grow
up thinking the world is his enemy.
By then everything will be better.
Are you sure, Igor?
Are you sure?
Anna.
I listened to Ranov the other night.
And suddenly.
Suddenly I was sick inside.
These people are not our enemies.
They are our friends.
It is we who are acting like enemies.
Anna.
You must not say these things to me.
I can't help it.
I'm afraid.
For him.
For you.
For me.
Before I came here, I ..
I believed everything.
Now, I ..
I can't even understand.
We are simple people, Anna.
We can't understand everything.
We must have faith in our leaders.
We must understand, Igor.
We must.
If I've learned anything here, Igor.
I've learned that no human being
should ever be forced to live in fear.
Igor.
- No more, Anna.
You must not talk like that
anymore. I won't listen to you.
[ Radio: ]
"A wave of jubilation and thanksgiving
sweeps the cities of the land .."
"At the news of Japan's surrender."
"San Francisco has
gone absolutely wild."
"Market Street is jam packed with
countless thousands of men and women .."
"Celebrating the end of the war."
"Thousands of servicemen waiting
to be shipped to the Pacific."
"Many of them veterans
of the war in Europe."
"Know their shooting days are done."
"And are they tearing the town apart."
"And who can blame them because .."
"Peace."
"Isn't it wonderful?"
"To Grant."
"Take measures to organise acquisition
of extra documents on the atomic bomb."
"Present information incomplete."
"We must have in detail
the technical process."
"And drawings and
calculations. Director."
There is no questioning
the urgency of the order.
We are doing what we can.
- It is not enough.
You will contact every agent and
alert them for atomic information.
That is all.
Gouzenko will remain.
Oh, Gouzenko.
A telegraph to The Director.
We ..
We have alerted every agent to ..
That fantastic mushroom over Hiroshima.
I saw the newsreel pictures.
I can't get them out of my mind.
A beautiful poisonous mushroom.
What a weapon.
I wish I knew more about it.
One little bomb that makes a
desert on which nothing can live.
What more need you know?
Sometimes, I think you're
a great fool, Kulin.
Gouzenko.
Do you think I'm a great fool?
Don't look at him, look at me.
Consider me carefully.
I've blood on both hands and I sleep
with dead faces on my eyeballs.
You have my permission
to shut up, Kulin.
Gouzenko, I told you.
Look at me.
See if you can look into my mind.
We are defending Kharkov.
It's snowing.
There is blood to wade through.
I ask for volunteers for
a dangerous patrol.
No-one volunteers.
I shoot ten good Russians
between the eyes.
Shoot them dead.
The eleventh volunteers.
I have no more trouble and I
have all the volunteers I could use.
Kulin!
As a man, I am called a "sadist".
But what of governments that pile up dead
and justify murder as a means to an end?
What name do you call them?
You.
You simple Russian soul.
You'll answer me.
You are making it very
difficult for him my friend.
Don't force me to send
you back to Russia.
You.
Gouzenko.
Did you hear that?
The threat of threats.
To be sent back to Russia.
Why should it have such
an ominous sound?
Like the ring of mourning bells
or the executioner's volley.
Why?
Why? Have you figured it out? Why?
Why?
Go to your quarters.
Consider yourself under arrest.
Yes.
It's about time.
I can't stomach it anymore.
An efficient firing squad
will solve all my problems.
It takes too long to
drink oneself to death.
Too long.
Gouzenko.
You have a good record, Gouzenko.
It will stay that way unless you repeat
a single word of what happened here.
File this.
I've got to talk to you, Comrade Major.
Go away.
Why do you say you can't
stomach it anymore?
What is it makes you willing to ..
To face a firing squad?
I'm drunk.
I never know what I say when I'm drunk.
Tell me, Kulin.
You are the son of one of the
great heroes of the revolution.
Your father was close to Lenin.
You're turning away from
everything he stands for.
Why?
My father was once a great
revolutionary Marxist.
Today, he pays for a living by
saying what he's told to say.
Kulin.
You know more than I.
Do you think there is
going to be another war?
War is part of a process leading towards
a general upheaval throughout the world.
That will result in the establishment
of world communism.
There mustn't be another war.
Never again.
Listen, Kulin.
There must be another way.
Tell me the truth.
Truth?
What's that?
I used to know when
I was a very little boy.
You don't know.
You will never know.
You were born too late.
It is enough to make even a sadist cry.
But listen to me.
I've got a son.
And I want to do what's right.
- Go away, you simple Russian.
They'll send you back too,
if they catch you talking to me.
Go away.
"The truth .. you don't know."
"You were born too late."
"I've learned that no human being
should ever be forced to live in fear."
"Our roles and aims
are quite different."
"The class struggle will continue."
"These people are not our enemies."
"Don't force me to send
you back to Russia."
"Today, he pays for a living
by saying what he's told to say."
"What of governments that pile up dead
and justify murder as a means to an end?"
[ Anna: ]
"Please understand me .. for his sake."
"For his sake. For his sake."
"For his sake."
Igor?
What's wrong?
Everything.
I was just talking to Kulin.
They're sending him home, Anna.
That was bound to happen.
He drinks too much.
He drinks to forget.
Forget what?
Himself.
His father.
Once, Kulin had great
respect for his father.
Now he has only contempt.
He's sick.
Sick with disappointment.
That's a terrible thing
for a father to do to a son.
I mustn't do that to Andre.
I must think now for him too.
I must tell him what kind of
a world I want him to live in.
What kind of man I want him to be.
Someday I'll have to answer to him.
And I want to be able to face him
without being afraid or ashamed.
Maybe I'm wrong.
But from what I've seen and learned.
I've decided there is only
one thing for us to do.
Anna.
We will not go back to Russia.
"In the weeks that followed,
Gouzenko formulated a plan."
"He selected certain key
documents from his secret file."
"He very carefully marked each one."
The Colonel wants to see
you in his office immediately.
Thanks.
What are you doing?
Just straightening out my files.
Pretty busy, eh?
Very busy.
- No rest for the wicked, huh?
Igor.
My old friend, I'm glad to see you.
Sergeyev. When did you arrive?
- Today.
Sergeyev is your replacement.
You are returning to Russia.
Immediately?
As soon as you have shown Lieutenant
Sergeyev everything he should know.
You will work together from now on.
Yes, Comrade Colonel.
- That's all.
Comrade Gouzenko.
I hear you are going home.
Yes.
Are you happy?
Why shouldn't I be happy?
You might at least introduce me, Igor.
He's not very polite, is he.
Comrade Sergeyev - Comrade Karanova.
We will see more of each other I hope.
You will.
"Gouzenko realised that from now
on his replacement, Sergeyev .."
"Would be continually at his side."
"To complete his plan, he needed
to take immediate action."
"That same night he
returned to the embassy."
What are you doing?
- Cleaning out my files.
Good.
I hope Sergeyev is as efficient as you.
Gouzenko, send this off tonight.
To Moscow. Right away.
Right away. Right away?
What is it, a declaration of war?
You get grumpier every day.
I need excitement.
Then why don't you lock up the place
and come and see a move with me?
Nobody would know the difference.
Except you.
Go along now before I report you for
trying to make me neglect my duties.
Quitting already?
- Yes.
Come here.
What do you want?
If I was going home ..
I'd take a pocket full
of watches with me.
I'd be a Colonel in
no time, I'll bet you.
Good idea. Goodnight.
Gouzenko.
Well, Gouzenko?
All packed and ready to go?
Yes, Comrade Ranov.
Good.
I'll see you before you leave.
"Gouzenko went directly
to The Justice Building."
"Convinced the information he had must
go to the highest level of government."
"He was determined to see no-one
less that the Minister of Justice."
[ Door knocks ]
Who is it?
Igor.
I went to The Justice Department.
There was nobody there but a sentry.
I couldn't tell him anything.
How could I trust him?
They'll be searching for you
at 12 tomorrow. - I know.
I'll go back to the Justice Department
first thing in the morning.
You and Andre will come with me.
I won't leave you here alone.
We'll come.
What are those?
Diaries.
Cables to and from Moscow.
Agents reports on the atomic bomb.
High explosives, radar. False passports.
Even notes on the secret meeting between
Roosevelt and Churchill in Canada.
A hundred documents.
The whole story in the
agent's own handwriting.
What they've been doing in Canada.
They will surely kill you
when they find out.
I tell you the minister will not see you
unless you tell me what you have.
But you must understand please.
I cannot tell my business to
anyone but the minister himself.
Why not?
It's a matter of great secrecy.
It involves the Canadian
and Russian governments.
The minister is in his other office.
At the Parliament buildings.
Perhaps if you go there ..?
Thank you. We will go there.
Trigorin here.
Have you telephoned his apartment?
Strange.
Call me when he gets in.
Hello Ranov?
Gouzenko is late for work.
Anna, it is after two.
Please, we've been waiting for
two hours. Time is important.
I am terribly sorry but the minister is
running behind with his appointments.
If you can come by tomorrow we
may be able to fit you in somewhere.
No answer.
I'm afraid there are documents
missing from the files.
What kind?
We are checking now.
"Gouzenko was beaten."
"His story was too big, too incredible."
"If the Canadian government
would not listen."
"Then he had risked
everything for nothing."
"Then suddenly he remembered what he had
learned about the Canadian newspapers."
"Their independence, their freedom."
"They were his last hope."
Andre.
Now be a good boy.
Excuse me please.
Can you tell me where
to find the editor?
He's out.
It's very important.
Try the city desk.
In the corner.
I have some very important
information for you.
Sit down.
- No thank you.
I am from the Russian Embassy.
I have some papers
here that can prove it.
Just go ahead. I can listen
to you at the same time.
The papers that will prove
that Soviet Russia ..
Is operating a spy system in Canada.
Go ahead.
This document will prove that one
scientist working on the atomic bomb.
Is giving information to
the Soviet Military Attach?.
There is no time to lose.
Already they are looking for me.
You must print these right away.
Before they kill me.
Sure.
Before they kill you.
Your life is in danger, isn't it?
Well, you take the stuff to the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
They'll take care of you,
and those Russians too.
But the Canadian people should know
as soon as possible what they're ..
Of course they should.
But there is nothing I can do with this.
You must do something.
It's for the safety of your country.
Have you been to the Justice Department?
Yes.
They won't see me.
- Sorry.
If the government won't touch it,
I guess it's too big for us too.
Excuse me.
Who is the unhappy man?
- Some crackpot.
What happened?
They acted as if I were crazy.
They must believe me. They must.
What are we going to do then?
Go home and pack.
You.
You worked with him every day.
Day and night.
Couldn't you feel something
was happening to him?
Was there no hint of anything?
The Secret Police takes
care of feelings and hints.
He may have gone directly to the police.
If so, we demand he be turned over to
the embassy immediately as a deserter.
We will say he stole embassy funds.
And we'll be in the newspapers. We'll
be investigated. We'll be arrested.
Friends we have developed.
Will be frightened away.
Organisations that we have built.
Will collapse.
And the work of many years.
My work.
Will be completely wasted.
We have checked every hotel.
We are watching the rail-road
station, bus stations, the airport.
The main highways.
There's no way Gouzenko and his family
can leave Ottawa without being seen.
What about his apartment?
- He wouldn't dare go back there.
Where else could he go?
He can't walk the streets of Ottawa all
day and night with a wife and an infant.
He would eventually go home.
Realising you are too stupid to
believe he would dare go there.
We will go to his apartment.
They will come here. Any minute now.
You must take Andre some
place where he will be safe.
A hotel in some other city.
- You will come also?
I must be here when they come.
But they'll kill you.
- Anna.
It's you and Andre I'm doing this for.
Please don't make it worthless.
You will pack now, Anna.
Take this. I'll get you more.
Go to the Royal Hotel.
Wait for me there.
If I'm not there within ..
[ Door knocks ]
Gouzenko.
Gouzenko.
[ Baby crying ]
[ Door knocks ]
[ Door knocks ]
Vinikov.
Has he gone?
- No.
Anna, we won't be able to leave now.
Come with me. Hurry.
You and Andre will go to Mrs Foster's
next door and wait there.
If anything should happen to me,
turn these over to the police.
Tell them the whole story.
I won't go without you.
- Anna, please. There is no time.
Come on.
Please hurry. This is no
time to talk. Come on.
Hurry.
Hello there.
Go in. Go in.
[ Door knocks ]
[ Door knocks ]
Gouzenko.
[ Door knocks ]
Gouzenko.
We know you are there.
Let us in.
Good evening, Comrade Gouzenko.
Sit down.
We were worried about you, Gouzenko.
Thought perhaps you were ill.
You are ill, aren't you.
You must be.
You've been working too hard.
Had a nervous breakdown.
Your mind is temporarily
affected, isn't it.
Have you lost your tongue too?
We will help you to find it if we must.
Your mind snapped. That's what happened.
You didn't want to leave
this lovely apartment.
This plenitude of food.
This easy living.
You couldn't face going back to Russia.
So your mind snapped, didn't it.
Don't be stubborn, Gouzenko.
You need only return those unimportant
papers you took while you were so upset.
It will be all forgotten.
I haven't got the papers.
Where are they?
- Comrade Colonel.
We must be patient with
a person who is sick.
You see, Gouzenko?
We don't want to harm you.
You understand?
Now, where are the documents?
Are they here?
Search.
Stand up!
Trigorin, must I remind you that
you?re are speaking to a sick man?
Help Bushkin, please.
Where is your wife and son?
You don't really expect me to
answer that question, do you?
I was just curious.
There is no use searching here.
It is obvious that his wife has
the papers wherever she is.
That should not be too
difficult to find out.
Trigorin is not as patient as I am.
Or as understanding.
Perhaps it will be better
if we all go to the embassy.
I'm not going to the embassy, Ranov.
I'm not going anywhere
outside this house.
Alive.
You are sick.
Aren't you.
Sick, maybe.
Sick like Major Kulin was sick.
You have a father, Gouzenko.
You have a mother,
a brother and a sister.
Your wife has a mother,
a father and two sisters.
All live in Russia.
- They've nothing to do with it.
Exactly.
They have nothing to do with this.
And yet ..
You didn't think of them, did you.
You didn't think of what
might happen to them.
We heard them break in!
We called the police.
What's going on in here?
Who are you?
We are from the Soviet Embassy.
Gouzenko is one of our employees.
He was ordered to return to Russia but
he decided to disobey orders and desert.
Naturally, we couldn't permit that.
We came here to ..
To reason with him.
They came her to kill him.
What have you got to say about this?
What's happened to you?
Why don't you speak?
Anna.
Go and get the documents.
This is a most embarrassing
situation, officer.
As I say, this man is a Russian national
who refused to return to his homeland.
Actually I think he is ill.
In any event this is strictly an
embassy problem of no concern to ..
Anna.
Give them to the officer.
Those documents are Soviet property!
They were stolen from
the Soviet Embassy.
I must warn you.
Unless you return the papers immediately
I shall report you to your government.
This is kinda getting over
my head. I don't know ..
Officer.
Those are not only papers.
They are a death warrant.
When I gave them to
you I sentenced myself ..
And my family and my
wife's family to execution.
We must all die sooner or later
so it doesn't really matter.
It's how we die and why
we die that is important.
Take them away with you.
And take my wife and child.
This man is insane.
As a representative of
the Soviet Government.
I demand that you hand
me those documents.
You say they were stolen?
- Yes.
Stolen property must be identified
and claimed at Police Headquarters.
That's the law.
You will hear from my government.
We will go now.
You must not let them go.
They'll come back!
They will never rest ..
- Anna. Anna.
Please be quiet.
We have nothing more to say.
We'll give you protective custody until
the government looks into these things.
Come along.
Oh, Igor.
They are going to listen to you.
They are going to listen to you.
If you run out you admit guilt.
That puts the whole party on the spot.
You've got to fight this thing
on the floor of the Commons.
Use every parliamentary trick you know.
You've got to stir up
the front organisations.
And sympathetic newspapers
and periodicals.
Stop them howling about forgeries.
About witch-hunts.
About violations of democratic rights.
That's fine.
But what if they send me to prison?
You will be a martyr.
And, by the time you get out.
You will be a hero.
And will you be a hero along with me?
The party comes first.
What about Igor Gouzenko?
If he goes unpunished.
Others might do the same.
Don't be too unhappy, Leitz.
We'll name a city after you.
When we take over.
"Moscow. Urgent."
"The following members of the staff of
the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa Canada."
"Will return without delay to Moscow."
"Comrade Nina Karanova."
"Comrade Lieutenant Josef Sergeyev."
"Comrade Colonel Aleksandr Trigorin."
"Comrade Ilya .."
"Ranov."
Comrade Kulin will be pleased to see us.
"Leonard Leitz found guilty."
"Sentenced to six years."
"Helen Tweedy pleaded guilty."
"Sentenced to three years."
"Donald Class found guilty."
"Sentenced to five years."
"Dr Harold Preston Norman."
"Pleaded guilty.
Sentenced to ten years."
"William W. Hollis."
"Found guilty. Sentenced to four years."
"Of the eighteen arrested,
two pleaded guilty."
"And eight were convicted."
"Today, Igor Gouzenko and his
family live somewhere in Canada."
"By special act, a grateful
country has granted them .."
"All manners and liberties."
"Franchises and privileges
of our Dominion of Canada."
"And they use and enjoy same freely .."
"Quietly .. and peaceably."
"As British subjects."
"But they cannot enjoy these rights."
"Their lives in danger, they live in
hiding under the constant protect?on .."
"Of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police."
"Yet they have not
lost fa?th in the future."
"They know that ultimate
security for themselves .."
"And their children
lies in the survival .."
"Of the democratic way of life."
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