Official End: Autobiography Philby and Cypher Clerk

official end: Philby died in Moscow in 1988, where he was given a hero's funeral, according to Rabble. He was awarded posthumous medals by the Soviets, and a nice grave marker was erected in his memory. In My Silent War, the 1968 autobiography Philby may or may not have written himself during his residency in Moscow, with or without the assistance of a KGB minder, he made the point he did it, if not quite for England, for mankind then, because of what he called my persisting faith in Communism. Igor Sergeievich Gouzenko, the Soviet cypher clerk who three days after the official end of the Second World War defected to Canada from the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, underwent a similar transformation from traitor to hero. It is hard to disagree. By exposing the efforts of Joseph Stalin's spy network to get its paws on western atomic secrets, historian Jack Granatstein concluded, Gouzenko was the beginning of the Cold War for public opinion. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.