The Iron Curtain

Year: 1948

Runtime: 87 mins

Language: English

Director: William A. Wellman

Thriller

Based on the true 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko (Dana Andrews), posted to the USSR Embassy in Ottawa during World II. He defected with 109 pages of documents that implicated senior Canadian officials and revealed sleeper cells gathering nuclear‑bomb information. The scandal, exposed by columnist Drew Pearson in early 1946, drew Canada, Britain and the United States into the controversy.

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