6/5/2023 0 Comments Cold war espionage![]() Becoming Established in the Canadian ShieldĨ. KGB Directorate ‘S’, Illegals Departmentħ. He was debriefed by Mahar for several months when they returned to Canada.ģ. He was exfiltrated by a joint Canadian / British intelligence team which was headed by Donald Mahar. Incredibly, he reappeared at a British Embassy as an old man in 1992, seeking Canada’s help. Convicted of treason, a traitor’s fate awaited him, predictable, grim and final. Brik was consequently lured back to Moscow in 1955, where he was arrested, and interrogated. He was later betrayed by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer, James Morrison, who sought money from the KGB to pay his debts. She persuaded him to turn himself in, which resulted in his becoming a double agent, working for Canada. In 1953, he fell in love with a married Canadian woman to whom he revealed his true identity. 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. Yevgeni Brik was a KGB deep cover illegal who had been dispatched to Canada in 1951. 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 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. ![]()
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