Conrad Stafford Bain was born on Feb. 4, 1923, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, to a family of English and Scottish descent. He grew up in a modest household where his father worked as a salesman, and Bain developed an early interest in performance...
On Jan. 13, Igor Gouzenko was born in Russia near Moscow. In school, he did well in his academic performance. This gained him training as a cipher clerk. Drafted into the Red Army, he was sent to Ottawa in 1943 to work at the Soviet Embassy...

