Shattered illusions
Subtitle: KGB Cold War espionage in Canada
By: Donald G. Mahar ; foreword by Ward Elcock
Series: Security and professional intelligence education series (SPIES); Security and professional intelligence education series
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781442269132; 9781442269149
Subjects: Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti; Cold War; Biography; Soviet Union; Intelligence officers; Soviet Espionage; History; Foreign relations; Spies
Description: "Yevgeni Vladimirovich Brik and James Douglas Finley Morrison were central figures in what was considered one of the most important Cold War operations in the West at the time. Their story, which involves espionage, intelligence tradecraft, intelligence service penetrations, double agent scenarios, and betrayal, is a piece of Cold War intelligence history that has never been fully told. Yevgeni Brik was a KGB deep cover illegal who had been dispatched to Canada in 1951. He settled in Verdun, Quebec. He eventually became the KGB Illegal Resident where he had responsibility for running a number of agents, one of whom was working on the CF-105, Avro Arrow. In 1953, he fell in love with a married Canadian woman to whom he revealed his true identity. She persuaded him to turn himself in, which resulted in his becoming a double agent, working for Canada. He was later betrayed by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer, James Morrison, who sought money from the KGB to pay his debts. Brik was consequently lured back to Moscow in 1955, where he was arrested, and interrogated. Convicted of treason, a traitor's fate awaited him, predictable, grim and final. Incredibly, he reappeared at a British Embassy as an old man in 1992, seeking Canada's help. He was exfiltrated by a joint Canadian/British intelligence team which was headed by Donald Mahar. He was debriefed by Mahar for several months when they returned to Canada"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Flight to Rio; title: The city of light; title: From the Baltic to the Land of Liberty; title: The KGB beckons; title: KGB Directorate "S," Illegals Department; title: Dispatched to Canada; title: Becoming established in the Canadian shield; title: Rocky Mountains and love in the prairies; title: A change of Hart; title: Gideon and Operation Keystone; title: Trouble in paradise; title: Brik's advancement to active espionage; title: Shades of Gouzenko; title: For the sake of a smoked meat sandwich; title: The Mountie who became Long Knife; title: A life in transition; title: Establishing the framework for treason; title: Betrayal; title: Reluctant guest of Lubyanka; title: The treachery continues; title: Peeling back the onion of deceit; title: Back in the game; title: All appears lost; title: Merry go round of clandestine meetings; title: British SIS in Moscow; title: Morrison's world unravels; title: Yevgeni Brik's final days; title: The end of the road; title: Exposed by the media; title: An astounding revelation; title: The devil is in the details; title: Into the breach; title: The lost years; title: Strange bed fellows; title: Temnikovskiy Department of Camps; title: Time served; title: Perestroika, Glasnost and the Soviet railway system; title: Vilnius, Lithuania; title: Epilogue.