Canadian Intelligence Eh! Episode 282

Ah the Cold War! Those were the good old days when we knew the enemy and he knew us. Few know that the decades-long slowly simmering conflict began in Ottawa when Igor Gouzenko defected from the Soviet Embassy with a treasure trove of secret documents detailing the USSR's network of moles and useful idiots in Canada and the West. A new book by a local historian sheds some light on this era and the author joins me for a chat.