Picture #8: After living for three years in secrecy under a new identity, George Brown, Igor Gouzenko finally decided to tell his side of the defection story by writing this book. The book, ‘This Was My Choice’, gained a lot of publicity in Canada in 1948 as it allowed everyone to see history from the perspective of a key figure which allowed them to gain insight into why exactly Gouzenko committed the act of defection.









