GINHOVEN, HUBERT• 209timekeeping in maintaining his radio schedules, he was completely
trusted by the Illegals Directorate atMoscow Center.
The son of a onetime Amtorg official who had been based in New
York, Brik spoke English with a slight Brooklyn accent and had
landed from a ship in Halifax on his mission to be theKGBillegal
rezidentin Canada. In Canada he used the identity of David Semyo-
novich Soboloff, a Canadian-born ‘‘live double’’ who had returned to
the Soviet Union as a youth. After traveling across Canada to ac-
quaint himself with his ‘‘legend,’’ he settled in a Montreal suburb
under the cover of a photographic studio. In November 1953, at the
urging of his lover, the wife of a Canadian army noncommissioned
officer, he turned himself in to the RCMP in Ottawa.
When in October 1955 he was recalled to Moscow, Brik was reluc-
tant to go, but he was persuaded that aSecret Intelligence Service
(SIS) representative would maintain contact with him. However, at
the appointed rendezvous,gideonappeared accompanied by an un-
known woman, and SIS assumed he had been compromised. The SIS
station commander in Moscow at the time was Terence Tear
O’Bryan, assisted by (Sir) Alan Urwick and (Dame) Daphne Park.
In 1992gideonwas traced in Russia, where he had served a prison
sentence of 15 years, and he accepted an invitation to return to Ot-
tawa on a Canadian pension.
The case was considered significant in London because of the pos-
sibility thatgideonhad been betrayed by amoleinsideMI5or SIS.
Furthermore, Terry Guernsey, the RCMP Security Service director,
recalled having confided details of thegideoncase toRoger Hollis.
A later investigation codenamed longknife concluded that a
Mountie named James Morrison had sold details ofkeystoneto the
KGB in Ottawa for $3,500. In January 1986 Morrison pleaded guilty
to charges of having passed information to the Soviets between 1955
and 1958.GINHOVEN, HUBERT.A detective inspector inSpecial Branch,
Hubert Ginhoven was sacked after he was arrested in April 1929. He
had been identified byMI5as a possible source of a leak from Scot-
land Yard toWilliam Ewer, a Soviet spy who headed theFederated
Press of Americanews agency and employed several former detec-
tives dismissed following the 1919 police strike. No further action
was taken against either Ginhoven or Detective Sergeant Jane.