Talk:Igor Gouzenko

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More preciseness required in later paragraphs - less generalization. [2004.12.29] — Preceding unsigned comment added by JPiper (talk • contribs) 06:10, 30 December 2004 (UTC)

Gouzenko affair was not good. Twas' bad and mean to all duuh world :O —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.150.112.209 (talk) 21:53, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Wife's name?
The article refers to her as "Svetlana". The (official?) history seems to call her "Anna", as does the IMDb article on the film (which was written by Gouzenko - the film, not the IMDb entry). Does anybody have an authoritative reference? Or are they variants of the same name? 99.246.117.67 (talk) 02:16, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * CBC says Svetlana and is quoting her actual words. Igor says "Anna, My Wife" in his book. I think we're going to have to assume that Anna is a familiar form for Svetlana. I found one page that says that Svetlana shortens to Sveta, but husbands and wives generally get to pick their own short forms. Franamax (talk) 02:49, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Wife's name Anna Svetlana
Page 43, "Intrepid's Last Case" 1983, by Sir William Samuel Stevenson, Villard Books, ISBN 0-394-53430-1. "His (Gouzenko's) wife, whom he called Anna, short for Svetlana...". &#8734; focusoninfinity 03:38, 2 November 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Focusoninfinity (talk • contribs)

Broken Reference to CSIS webpage
The current link to the CSIS (Canadian Security Inteligence Service) webpage appears to be broken.

A search on their portal for the name "Igor Gouzenko" yielded these results

http://www.csis.gc.ca/pblctns/cmmntr/cm85-eng.asp http://www.csis.gc.ca/pblctns/cmmntr/cm85-fra.asp

http://www.csis.gc.ca/nwsrm/bckgrndrs/bckgrndr05-eng.asp http://www.csis.gc.ca/nwsrm/bckgrndrs/bckgrndr05-fra.asp

http://www.csis.gc.ca/pblctns/cmmntr/cm76-eng.asp

and http://www.csis.gc.ca/hstrrtfcts/hstr/brfrcmpndx-fra.asp http://www.csis.gc.ca/hstrrtfcts/hstr/brfrcmpndx-eng.asp

It is unknown what the original webpage was referring to. Perhaps a copy can be found and included in the text as a stub?

TerrificInTahoma (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:03, 11 October 2008

Birthplace
The correct spelling of his birthplace is Рогачёво in Russian; in English it should be Rogachevo or Rogachovo. Here are two different sources in Russian:. Both mention Dmitrovsky district of Moscow Oblast. No, it's not Belarussian Rahachow. --Yms (talk) 11:42, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Good pick up. I've changed it to Rogachevo, Moscow Oblast in order for it to be created as an article here on WP. --Russavia Dialogue 11:54, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Defection date
The date for his defection seems to be contradicted between the opening paragraph and the details below. I'm guessing the initial September 1969 is incorrect but there is no other precise date on the page for his defection. --Aidocrangler (talk) 07:04, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

The Ottawa 39
Is there a list of their names somewhere? I'd say it belongs here. Or should at the very least be linked to. TREKphiler  any time you're ready, Uhura  03:12, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Conflicting details
Article states that RCMP did not believe him when he approached them, but later says that they were in a park across the street monitoring his apartment that night, when the Soviets entered the apartment while the family hid with friends across the hall.

Article also says that he finally found RCMP agents the next day who believed him, but then later says that it was the Minister of Justice who took him in. Did the RCMP take him to the Minister of Justice? Jmg38 (talk) 14:38, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

There's a weird formatting error being displayed on the page.
I'm not a normal editor, but I wanted to at least attempt to alert someone that is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.31.220.107 (talk • contribs) 04:47, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
 * There was a missing  character (bad syntax), which I fixed with this edit. However, there seems to be conflicting information on both the specific birth and death dates, so I'm not sure that we can state either as a specific day with confidence. I'll start a separate section on that below. wbm1058 (talk) 16:54, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Over-aggressive archiving
I'm restoring all the archives to talk, and deleting the three monthly archives. There is not nearly enough traffic on this page to justify such frequent archiving. The page can still comfortably hold all the comments made about the article to date, and it's helpful to have them on the same page as some relate to the same or closely-related concerns, and some may have yet to be addressed. – wbm1058 (talk) 16:41, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Birth and death dates
Yes, I see that the grave marker in File:Igor Gouzenko Tombstone.JPG says he was born Jan. 26, 1919 and died June 25, 1982. But I also see what seems significant support in sources for Jan. 13, 1919 and June 28, 1982. I'd like to see a reliable source explain these discrepancies. Given the secretive nature of this man's life, it seems possible that there has been intentional misdirection about some personal details such as exact birth and death dates. Given these discrepancies, and lacking any explanation of them, I think the prudent thing to do in the infobox is just state the month and year, but not the day, until we have further explanation and verification. this is important as the "Wikidata" in infoboxes is so widely circulated on the Internet as the accepted and verified Truth. – wbm1058 (talk) 17:18, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

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Which "his mother"?
From section "Background", there's an obvious ambiguity: "his mother decided to place her son in the care of his mother" Can someone please resolve this? BMJ-pdx (talk) 03:18, 11 January 2023 (UTC)


 * According to the Russian version, Igor Gouzenko's mother decided to place her son in the care of her mother, i.e., Gouzenko's grandmother. The first "his" is a bit ambiguous too, because the previous sentence is about Gouzenko's father. I've edited the text accordingly. Kozarzewski (talk) 17:17, 7 May 2023 (UTC)