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former Mountie, Corporal Jim Morrison, who confessed to having
sold secrets to theKGBbetween 1955 and 1958. In another example
of hostile penetration, Sergeant Gilles Brunet, codenamedtango,
who had been fired in December 1973 for disciplinary reasons, was
identified as a Soviet mole after his death from a heart attack in 1984.CANARIS, WILHELM.The head of the German military intelligence
service, theAbwehr, until his arrest in 1944, Admiral Wilhelm Ca-
naris is believed to have been executed at Flossenburg concentration
camp in early 1945 for complicity in the plot to assassinate Hitler in
July 1944.
Of Greek extraction, Canaris escaped from internment in neutral
Chile in World War I, evading a British inspection at Falmouth upon
his return home, and commanded a U-boat in the Adriatic. He was
appointed head of the Abwehr in January 1935.
In 1941 Canaris made contact with theSecret Intelligence Ser-
vicein Bern, Switzerland, indirectly through his mistress, Halina
Szymanska, whose husband had been the Polish military attache ́in
Berlin. Using false papers in the name of Marie Clenat, Szymanska
met Canaris on several occasions and was coached on messages to
pass to the British, including a warning that Hitler intended to invade
the Soviet Union in June 1941.
CARR, HARRY.A veteran, Russian-speakingSecret Intelligence
Service(SIS) officer, Harry Carr was the SIS head of station for 14
years in Helsinki before World War II. Later as SIS’s controller,
northern area, Carr supervised the infiltration of Latvian, Lithuanian,
and Estonian e ́migre ́s into their Soviet-occupied countries. This oper-
ation, codenamedwestward ho, proved to have been thoroughly
penetrated by theKGBbefore it was abandoned in 1954.
CARRE ́, MATHILDE-LILY.The mistress ofRoman Garby-Czerni-
awskiandthenhisAbwehrcaptor,Hugo Bleicher,Carre ́was a
French nurse known as ‘‘la Chatte’’ (‘‘the Cat’’). She betrayed a
majorPolish intelligenceorganization, codenamedinterallie ́,to
the Nazis in Paris in November 1941. Despite this setback for the
Secret Intelligence Service,Carre ́continued to remain in contact
withSpecial Operations Executiveand succeeded in compromising
F Section’s main network,autogiro.