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.
Acknowledgements Foreword Preface 1. Flight to Rio 2. The City of Light 3. From the Baltic to the Land of Liberty 4. The KGB Beckons 5. KGB Directorate 'S', Illegals Department 6. Dispatched to Canada 7. Becoming Established in the Canadian Shield 8. Rocky Mountains and Love in the Prairies 9. A Change of HART 10. Gideon and Operation Keystone 11. Trouble in Paradise 12. Brik's Advancement to Active Espionage 13. Shades of Gouzenko 14. For the Sake of a Smoked Meat Sandwich 15. The Mountie Who Became Long Knife 16. A Life in Transition 17. Establishing the Framework for Treason 18. Betrayal 19. Reluctant Guest of Lubyanka 20. The Treachery Continues 21. Peeling Back the Onion of Deceit 22. Back in the Game 23. All Appears Lost 24. Merry Go Round of Clandestine Meetings 25. British SIS in Moscow 26. Morrison's World Unravels 27. Yevgeni Brik's Final Days 28. The End of the Road 29. Exposed by the Media 30. An Astounding Revelation 31. The Devil is in the Details 32. Into the Breach 33. The Lost Years 34. Strange Bed Fellows 35. Temnikovskiy Department of Camps 36. Time Served 37. Perestroika, Glasnost and the Soviet Railway System 38. Vilnius, Lithuania Epilogue Chapter Notes Selected Bibliography A Note About Sources About the Author Index
