Shattered illusions : KGB Cold War espionage in Canada / Donald G. Mahar ; foreword by Ward Elcock.
Mahar, Donald G., 1947- author.
2017
F1029.5.S65 M35 2017
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Title Shattered illusions : KGB Cold War espionage in Canada / Donald G. Mahar ; foreword by Ward Elcock.
Author Mahar, Donald G., 1947- author.
ISBN 9781442269132 (cloth)
9781442269149 (paperback)
9781442269156 (e-book)
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number F1029.5.S65 M35 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 327.71047
Summary "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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Security and professional intelligence education series.
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Flight to Rio
The city of light
From the Baltic to the Land of Liberty
The KGB beckons
KGB Directorate "S," Illegals Department
Dispatched to Canada
Becoming established in the Canadian shield
Rocky Mountains and love in the prairies
A change of Hart
Gideon and Operation Keystone
Trouble in paradise
Brik's advancement to active espionage
Shades of Gouzenko
For the sake of a smoked meat sandwich
The Mountie who became Long Knife
A life in transition
Establishing the framework for treason
Betrayal
Reluctant guest of Lubyanka
The treachery continues
Peeling back the onion of deceit
Back in the game
All appears lost
Merry go round of clandestine meetings
British SIS in Moscow
Morrison's world unravels
Yevgeni Brik's final days
The end of the road
Exposed by the media
An astounding revelation
The devil is in the details
Into the breach
The lost years
Strange bed fellows
Temnikovskiy Department of Camps
Time served
Perestroika, Glasnost and the Soviet railway system
Vilnius, Lithuania
Epilogue.

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