Canadian Intelligence Resource Centre

Canadian gets life for plot to blow up embassies in Singapore, Philippines
Jabarah was taken from Oman by Canadian intelligence officials. The Canadian Security and Intelligence Service said Jabarah travelled to the United States voluntarily with its help, but questions have been raised about it.
HTML | Published: 2008-01-18 | Added: 2008-01-27

Charkaoui told CSIS about jihad recruiting
In a previously undisclosed interview with CSIS investigators, alleged al-Qaeda sleeper agent Adil Charkaoui described how members of Montreal's Arab community were recruiting people for jihad before 9/11.
HTML | Published: 2008-01-23 | Added: 2008-01-27

CSIS warily monitors potential for violent anti-Olympic demonstrations
The annual report of Canadian Security Intelligence Service director Jim Judd signals the agency is actively gauging the prospect that demonstrations could turn ugly as opponents voice social and economic concerns about the Vancouver Games.
HTML | Published: 2008-01-20 | Added: 2008-01-27

Information-sharing rules defended
The CSIS Act, Peirce said, allows information to be shared where it is "strictly necessary" to national security, and in the RCMP's case, the practice is guided by ministerial directives and policies that call for many factors to be weighed.
HTML | Published: 2008-01-09 | Added: 2008-01-27

Canada's official spy souvenir shop is off limits to ordinary citizens
Canada's official spy souvenir shop is the perfect complement to the country's official spy museum. They're both top-secret facilities that are strictly off limits to ordinary Canadians and tourists.
HTML | Published: 2008-01-21 | Added: 2008-01-26

China fishes for secrets in rich, vulnerable waters
Judd told the panel that China is the agency's most formidable adversary, preoccupying almost half of CSIS's counter-intelligence apparatus, a striking about-face by CSIS concerning the threat posed by Chinese espionage to Canada's national  [...]
HTML | Published: 2007-12-11 | Added: 2008-01-26

Radical believers
CSIS, Canada's spy agency, is concerned with the "radicalization" of adherents to the religious faith. "Radicalization is the process of moving from moderate beliefs to extreme beliefs," says a 2006 CSIS study called Islamic Extremists in Canada.
HTML | Published: 2007-12-27 | Added: 2008-01-26

Somali drug may fund terrorism
Terrorist groups may be funding their activities through khat, an illegal stimulant smuggled daily into Canada. The Integrated Threat Assessment Centre report says some part of the proceeds involved in the global khat trade possibly finances  [...]
HTML | Published: 2007-12-20 | Added: 2008-01-26

Time to join global snoops
Collecting foreign intelligence abroad by human means is a vital requirement of sovereignty, and this country is the only G8 country without this capacity. Without it, our decision-makers simply cannot make good policy.
HTML | Published: 2007-12-15 | Added: 2008-01-26

War on the Web
Any potential political or diplomatic dispute can now be expected to include a significant online component, and Canada needs to be ready to defend itself against the cyber attacks that will come as inevitably as the next diplomatic dispute.
HTML | Published: 2008-01-02 | Added: 2008-01-26

Be Less Secretive, Internal Report Urges Canada's Spy Agency
Canada's spy agency is lagging behind other countries when it comes to telling the public about its work in the shadows, says an internal study. The analysis found the agency's annual public report to be dull, timid and full of recycled information.
HTML | Published: 2008-01-15 | Added: 2008-01-22

Canadian wars over Air India inquiry
The inquiry into the widely criticised investigation of the 1985 Air India bombing is further souring ties between the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIF) and the Royal Canadian Mounting Police (RCMP).
HTML | Published: 2007-12-05 | Added: 2008-01-19

CSIS-RCMP links need new law, inquiry told
While witnesses from both agencies have testified that there is now greater understanding between CSIS and the RCMP, Mr. Major said changing the law could ensure better co-operation.
HTML | Published: 2007-12-05 | Added: 2008-01-19

Former CSIS boss warns against terrorism fight
Canadians should be wary of giving too free a rein to police in the name of fighting terrorism, says the former head of the of the country's spy agency.
HTML | Published: 2007-12-04 | Added: 2008-01-19

Former intelligence chief disputes RCMP testimony
Former CSIS director Reid Morden rejected claims of an almost unworkable relationship between the spy agency and the RCMP, urging the Air India inquiry not to mess with a system that is working well.
HTML | Published: 2007-12-05 | Added: 2008-01-19

RCMP-CSIS feuding ‘almost unworkable,' ex-Mountie Zaccardelli tells Air India probe
Police and spies should be put back on the same team, former RCMP commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli told the Air India inquiry, as he called for a major shakeup of Canada's approach to national security.
HTML | Published: 2007-12-01 | Added: 2008-01-19

RCMP wanted to retain power to probe terrorist threats, inquiry told
The head of the RCMP at the time of the creation of Canada's spy agency wanted the police force to retain some capacity to gather intelligence on terrorists, the Air India inquiry heard.
HTML | Published: 2007-11-08 | Added: 2007-11-25

U.S.-Canada border is a security nightmare
Law enforcement officials say the presence of suspected terrorists in Canada is a worry, and they share intelligence on the threat daily.
HTML | Published: 2007-11-07 | Added: 2007-11-25

Ottawa's invisible inquiry
Copeland has called for the inquiry to look
HTML | Published: 2007-11-06 | Added: 2007-11-08

Critics call for closer eye on CSIS following constitutional violations
Members of Parliament called for closer scrutiny of CSIS following revelations the spy agency violated the constitutional rights of a citizen. Opposition critics demanded fuller assurances from Public Safety Minister that CSIS would respect the  [...]
HTML | Published: 2007-10-31 | Added: 2007-11-03

Spy agency accused of violating terrorist's rights
Canada's intelligence agency overstepped its mandate and violated the constitutional rights of a Canadian al Qaeda operative plotting to bomb U.S. and Israeli embassies in Asia, a federal watchdog said.
HTML | Published: 2007-10-31 | Added: 2007-11-03

Terror report blames CSIS
The Security Intelligence Review Committee says in a report to Parliament that CSIS went too far when it helped Mr. Jabarah surrender to FBI agents five years ago.
HTML | Published: 2007-10-29 | Added: 2007-11-03

Ottawa unveils terror trial 'advocates'
CSIS has long fought to keep its intelligence secret from its targets in court processes for fear of compromising its investigations. Mr. Day rejected any concern that foreign intelligence agencies may be less likely to share information with Canada now  [...]
HTML | Published: 2007-10-23 | Added: 2007-10-27

CSIS slammed for destruction of crucial evidence in Air India bombing
The erasure of key wiretap tapes by Canada's spy agency punched a hole in the evidence later needed to prosecute the Sikh extremists responsible for the Air India bombing.
HTML | Published: 2007-09-18 | Added: 2007-10-05

CSIS keeps low profile in cross-Canada hiring binge
Wanted: Spies. Must have a university degree and full Canadian citizenship. Bilingual applicants preferred. Trigger-happy folks need not apply. Most companies with staff shortages can post a help wanted sign, but that's not the CSIS way.
HTML | Published: 2007-09-09 | Added: 2007-10-03

Feds push for greater access to private info
A consultation document reveals the government is planning to hold talks to "address the challenges faced by police, CSIS and the Competition Bureau when seeking timely access to basic Customer Name Address (CNA) information."
HTML | Published: 2007-09-12 | Added: 2007-10-03

CSIS suspected U.S. would ship Arar to third country for torture: documents
Canada's spy agency suspected, within two days of Maher Arar's deportation from the United States, that the CIA had shipped him somewhere to face possible torture, newly released documents show.
HTML | Published: 2007-08-09 | Added: 2007-08-14

CSIS suspected U.S. would deport Arar to be tortured: documents
"I think the U.S. would like to get Arar to Jordan where they can have their way with him," a CSIS officer based in Washington wrote in a report dated Oct. 10, 2002, according to CSIS documents.
HTML | Published: 2007-08-09 | Added: 2007-08-11

Des espions à la rescousse des soldats canadiens
Le Canada envoie des espions du Service canadien du renseignement de sécurité (SCRS) en Afghanistan depuis quelques mois afin d'aider les soldats canadiens à déjouer les attentats meurtriers des combattants talibans dans la région de Kandahar.
HTML | Published: 2007-08-10 | Added: 2007-08-11

Somali-Canadians joined fight in Horn of Africa: report
An al-Qaeda-backed militant group fighting in Somalia is made up partly of Canadians, says a declassified intelligence report that warns while some of the insurgents may be dead, others could attempt to return to Canada.
HTML | Published: 2007-07-25 | Added: 2007-08-02

CIA's revelations find echo north of the border
The outgoing SIRC chairperson offered this parting advice: "We're going to have to play in the big leagues. It won't always be nice, it won't always be easy, and it won't always be pretty, but that's the real world we live in."
HTML | Published: 2007-07-11 | Added: 2007-07-18

Missing Radioactive Devices in Canada Usable by Terrorists
In a study released last year, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said it is “quite surprising” terrorists haven't already set off dirty bombs, and that Canada was “positively overdue” for an attack.
HTML | Published: 2007-07-09 | Added: 2007-07-16

RCMP confirms complaint about leak
The RCMP confirmed it "has received a complaint" from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service "relating to the disclosure of protected information" in the case of Adil Charkaoui of Montreal.
HTML | Published: 2007-07-06 | Added: 2007-07-16

Alleged terrorist wants inquiry; denies plot to fly plane into foreign target
Alleged terrorist Adil Charkaoui denied a report that said he was involved in a plot to fly a plane into an unspecified foreign target. A Montreal newspaper quoted a report by CSIS as saying Charkaoui was involved in a terrorist plot in 2000.
HTML | Published: 2007-06-22 | Added: 2007-07-04

Dirty bomb would cause panic, cost billions: Study
The federal study's preliminary assessments underscore the potential of a dirty bomb's radioactive material spread using conventional explosives. The findings come mere months after CSIS said a dirty bomb assault was "overdue."
HTML | Published: 2007-07-02 | Added: 2007-07-04

Canada's too spy-shy to avert terrorist attacks: expert
Without more overseas spying capabilities Canada will remain dangerously unaware and vulnerable to terrorist threats such as the Taliban video supposedly showing a graduating class of suicide bombers destined for Canada, says a former adviser to the  [...]
HTML | Published: 2007-06-20 | Added: 2007-06-21

Air India head says reforms may ease CSIS-RCMP relations
The head of the Air India inquiry is suggesting legislative reforms may be needed to promote better co-operation between Canada's national police force and its civilian intelligence agency.
HTML | Published: 2007-06-18 | Added: 2007-06-18

Canada introduces no-fly list amid fear of abuses
Airlines will be obliged to check the names of passengers who appear to be 12 or over against the list, which was compiled using information from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as well as Canada's counter-intelligence agency.
HTML | Published: 2007-06-18 | Added: 2007-06-18

UFO group that offered briefings to GG pleased by pro-forma response
A UFO researcher who offered to brief Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean on the presence of extraterrestrials received a letter from her office saying Viggiani's concerns "would be best addressed by the Canadian Space Agency and CSIS."
HTML | Published: 2007-06-17 | Added: 2007-06-18

Canadian agencies started investigation of Kafeela's murder
Canadian Intelligence Agencies and Islamabad Police on Wednesday started investigation over mysterious death of Canadian national Kafeela Siddiqui.
HTML | Published: 2007-06-14 | Added: 2007-06-17

No lessons learned
Pressured by victims' families, Harper's minority government launched the inquiry last year to find out what had gone wrong. During the trial it emerged that both the RCMP and CSIS had been aware of threats to attack Air India.
HTML | Published: 2007-06-14 | Added: 2007-06-17

State agents say inquests causing 'judicial terrorism'
CSIS is struggling to comply with the judicial inquiries atop of processes already laden with overseers. While hindsight may always be 20/20, those who investigate cases in real time find it difficult to connect the dots when the whole page is  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-06-09 | Added: 2007-06-11

17 arrests part of bigger plot: investigators
The 17 suspects arrested in Toronto one year ago today for allegedly belonging to an al- Qaeda-inspired terrorist cell were part of a larger group of almost 50 that were under investigation, sources say.
HTML | Published: 2007-06-02 | Added: 2007-06-03

CSIS: Confucius used in China's quest for power
Canada's spy service believes China has enlisted Confucius in its drive for global dominance. A newly declassified CSIS report says Beijing is out to win the world's hearts and minds, not just its economic markets, as a means of cementing power.
HTML | Published: 2007-05-29 | Added: 2007-06-03

National plan to protect us from terrorists
The government plans to roll out a national strategy to protect critical infrastructure from terrorist attacks and other threats. Support could be provided by the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre, an around-the-clock operation headquartered at  [...]
HTML | Published: 2007-05-26 | Added: 2007-06-03

No new agency for foreign intelligence, top spy says
The head of Canada's spy service says it would take time to teach his agents the art of gathering human intelligence overseas but the process would be faster and cheaper than creating an entirely new agency to do the work.
HTML | Published: 2007-05-29 | Added: 2007-06-03

Sikh issue flared quickly, former CSIS agent testifies
The 1984 storming of a Sikh temple by the Indian army forced Canada's spy agency to recognize the extent of Sikh extremism in the country, a former CSIS agent told the Air India inquiry.
HTML | Published: 2007-05-22 | Added: 2007-06-03

CSIS knew of looming Air India attack: witnesses
Former justice department lawyer Graham Pinos says he was told by a senior intelligence officer that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) feared that Sikh extremists would likely blow up a plane at some point.
HTML | Published: 2007-05-17 | Added: 2007-05-20

Day seeks security powers
The government also says it will expand the ability of Canada's spy agency -- the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) -- to do covert foreign intelligence gathering abroad.
HTML | Published: 2007-05-16 | Added: 2007-05-20

Snooper blooper
Among the numerous Conservative initiatives that make far better election promises than sound public policy, we can apparently scratch the plan to create a separate Canadian intelligence agency to spy on other countries.
HTML | Published: 2007-05-17 | Added: 2007-05-20

CSIS keen to polish image
Eager to burnish its image in the age of 24-hour news and probing public inquiries, CSIS has launched an aggressive outreach strategy to educate key stakeholders about the service's role, and even influence public debate on national security.
HTML | Published: 2007-05-14 | Added: 2007-05-19

Canada to launch no-fly list in June
A Canadian no-fly list of people to be barred from boarding domestic and international airline flights is set to take effect June 18. The no-fly list will be drawn up by Transport Canada, with input from the RCMP and CSIS.
HTML | Published: 2007-05-12 | Added: 2007-05-13

Canadians lining up to join spy agency
More and more Canadians are lining up to become spies, the agency says. Last year, more than 14,500 people submitted applications for jobs in CSIS. Of that number, CSIS hired 100 as intelligence officers -- or spies.
HTML | Published: 2007-05-12 | Added: 2007-05-13

No 'specific' threat before bombing
Canada's spy agency hardly ever collected enough details to categorize any terrorist threat as a specific one in the months leading up to the 1985 Air India bombing, says a former security officer.
HTML | Published: 2007-05-09 | Added: 2007-05-13

Ottawa may still boost Canada's foreign intelligence abilities
Jim Judd, CSIS Director, acknowledged Canada cannot fully meet its intelligence requirements without beefing up its overseas operations. But the government is still debating how to plug that gap.
HTML | Published: 2007-04-30 | Added: 2007-05-13

Tiger's Collecting Funds in Canada : Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers use pressure to raise funds, Canadian police say
The Tamil Tigers terrorist group has been aggressively fundraising in Montreal using a sophisticated pre-authorized payment scheme and other methods to collect money from the city's 25,000-strong Tamil community, according to Canadian intelligence.
HTML | Published: 2007-05-11 | Added: 2007-05-13

CSIS Chief says Spies from 15 Nations Working in Canada
Testifying before the Senate's defence and national security committee, which is studying how Canada's security and intelligence services operate and are monitored, Jim Judd said at any given time, about 15 countries will have spies on Canadian  [...]
HTML | Published: 2007-05-02 | Added: 2007-05-09

Convicted terrorist recants testimony against Montreal man
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service claims Ressam identified Charkaoui as someone he met at an Al-Qa'ida training camp in Afghanistan - an allegation Charkaoui denies.
HTML | Published: 2007-04-21 | Added: 2007-05-06

Spies at work
CSIS is conducting regular interviews and interrogations with hundreds of Arabs and Muslims across Canada at their work places, homes and in the vicinity of local mosques, say national and Montreal-based Arab and Muslim community groups.
HTML | Published: 2007-04-14 | Added: 2007-05-03

Canada needs counterterrorism chief, says former CSIS boss
Canada should appoint a politically independent intelligence czar who would co-ordinate the operations of security and intelligence agencies such as the RCMP and CSIS, the former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said.
HTML | Published: 2007-03-27 | Added: 2007-04-22

CSIS alters description of terrorists
CSIS has changed the way it describes such terrorists as Osama bin Laden, dropping the word Islamic in favour of Islamist. CSIS had been calling al-Qaeda types Sunni Islamic extremists, but they are now to be labelled Islamist extremists.
HTML | Published: 2007-03-25 | Added: 2007-04-22

Tory vow to launch spy agency has fizzled, source says
The Conservative campaign promise to launch a foreign intelligence service has quietly vanished from sight, government sources say. The plan, announced during the last election as part of the party's ambitious security agenda, is not entirely dead.
HTML | Published: 2007-03-27 | Added: 2007-04-22

Watchdog complains of secrecy
Plunkett also expresses concern to Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day about CSIS's troubling information handling practices and the lack of adequate policy for the spy service's overseas operations.
HTML | Published: 2007-03-22 | Added: 2007-04-22

Homegrown extremism on rise
Canada needs to do more to fight homegrown Islamist terrorism, says a classified intelligence report that puts part of the blame on parents. The briefing says Canada is increasingly threatened by radicalized members of the Muslim community.
HTML | Published: 2007-03-20 | Added: 2007-03-27

Radicalization and Jihad in the West
As a follow-up to the arrest of 17 terrorist suspects in the Toronto area earlier this month, CSIS has prepared an analysis of the phenomenon of radicalization.
PDF | Published: 2006-06-07 | Added: 2007-03-27

Spy agency watchdog says secrecy rules keep her in dark
The federal watchdog over Canada's spy agency warns that cabinet secrecy is hampering her ability to keep an eye on what CSIS is doing.
HTML | Published: 2007-03-21 | Added: 2007-03-27

National spy agency holds recruiting drive at UVic
Hoag, a senior CSIS intelligence officer, visited the UVic campus as part of a recruiting drive. The agency is looking for new intelligence officers, surveillants, information analysts, communications specialists and other technical and field staff.
HTML | Published: 2007-03-14 | Added: 2007-03-18

Creation of CSIS made Canada less safe: ex-Mountie
Stripping the RCMP of responsibility for intelligence-gathering and handing the job over to CSIS made Canada a more dangerous place, not a safer one, a former senior Mountie says.
HTML | Published: 2007-03-07 | Added: 2007-03-13

National security 'failed Air India'
The newly minted Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), created a year earlier and made up mostly of former RCMP intelligence officers, had been tracking and wiretapping alleged Air India terrorist mastermind Talwinder Singh Parmar.
HTML | Published: 2007-03-06 | Added: 2007-03-10

Integrating terrorism intelligence resources
Nine departments are represented in ITAC: the Privy Council Office, Foreign Affairs Canada, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada, National Defence, Canada Border Services Agency, Transport Canada, CSE, CSIS and the RCMP.
HTML | Published: 2007-02-24 | Added: 2007-02-24

Harper moves to resolve dispute threatening Air India probe
The question of national security has been raised by government agencies - CSIS, the RCMP, Foreign Affairs and others - that the public interest would be jeopardized in this era of violent world-wide terrorism if many of these documents were made  [...]
HTML | Published: 2007-02-20 | Added: 2007-02-22

Al-Qaeda calls for attacks on Canadian oil facilities
An online message, posted by The Al-Qaeda Organization in the Arabian Peninsula, declares we should strike petroleum interests in all areas which supply the United States like Canada. CSIS said it was aware of the posting.
HTML | Published: 2007-02-14 | Added: 2007-02-19

Conservative's foreign spy agency promise in limbo
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's election promise to create a foreign-intelligence agency appears to be on the backburner, despite calls from Canada's spy agency to increase activity abroad.
HTML | Published: 2007-02-13 | Added: 2007-02-19

CSIS defends watching Somali mosques
Canadian intelligence officers have been questioning Muslim youths who worship at Toronto's Somali mosques, according to a Canadian Arab Federation leader.
HTML | Published: 2007-02-17 | Added: 2007-02-19

Story of Israeli spy in Toronto 'nonsense,' Israel says
Israeli officials are denying a report of an Israeli spy operating in Toronto. DFAIT said it has been in contact with the Canadian Embassy in Cairo and is investigating the report of el-Attar's arrest. CSIS will not comment on the issue.
HTML | Published: 2007-02-06 | Added: 2007-02-19

CSIS, RCMP probe threatening 'FLQ' letter
The RCMP is taking very seriously a recent threatening letter signed by a group claiming to be a new cell of the FLQ, a Quebec terrorist group active in the 1960s and 1970s.
HTML | Published: 2007-01-18 | Added: 2007-02-12

Canada boosts intelligence
As universities struggle to meet the growing post-9-11 demand for courses in security and intelligence, Canada's spy agency has revved up recruiting efforts to fill positions soon to be vacated by retiring baby boomers.
HTML | Published: 2007-02-04 | Added: 2007-02-08

Ex-KGB to be deported from Canada
Mikhail Alexander Lennikov, 46, was a Communist youth league leader who spied on Soviet university students and Japanese business men on behalf of the KGB. He was employed by the KGB from 1981 to 1988.
HTML | Published: 2007-02-01 | Added: 2007-02-08

Canada's spy master warns of excessive security measures
Canada's spy master is warning that excessive government secrecy and draconian counter-terrorism measures will only play into the hands of terrorists.
HTML | Published: 2007-01-27 | Added: 2007-01-28

Canadians to face more pre-flight scrutiny
The RCMP and CSIS will be able to examine up to 34 pieces of information about everyone who flies in Canada under a comprehensive passenger screening program being developed by Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada.
HTML | Published: 2007-01-24 | Added: 2007-01-24

Alleged Canada terror leader was "time-bomb" -mole
A CSIS mole who infiltrated a group accused of plotting terror attacks on Canadian targets, including Parliament, says the alleged leader of the gang was a time bomb, who hoped to build an insurgent army in Canada's north.
HTML | Published: 2007-01-18 | Added: 2007-01-21

Canada's spy agency eager to fill positions
As universities struggle to meet the growing post-9-11 demand for courses in security and intelligence, Canada's spy agency has revved up recruiting efforts to fill positions soon to be vacated by retiring baby boomers.
HTML | Published: 2007-01-11 | Added: 2007-01-11

Canada throws out 'Russian spy'
Canada has deported a man accused of assuming a false identity over a 10-year period to spy for Russia. Canada's intelligence agency said in court papers it believed the man to be part of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, the successor to the  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-12-27 | Added: 2007-01-05

The hottest postsecondary field? Intelligence
Academic specialists in security and intelligence studies say their courses have never been so popular, but Canada's universities have been unable to get the faculty and other resources to meet the demand.
HTML | Published: 2007-01-01 | Added: 2007-01-05

Arar inquiry urges more scrutiny of Canada's intelligence activities
The Maher Arar inquiry has unfurled blueprints for a stronger, more co-ordinated family of watchdogs to keep an eye on the RCMP and other federal security organizations. Justice Dennis O'Connor suggests better scrutiny of the intelligence community.
HTML | Published: 2006-12-12 | Added: 2007-01-03

Can we trust MPs to oversee the overseers?
Mr. Justice Dennis O'Connor's second report on the Arar affair proposes the creation of one powerful new agency and the expansion of another with broad mandates and real powers to watch over the national security apparatus.
HTML | Published: 2006-12-13 | Added: 2007-01-03

CSIS fears terrorist 'dirty bomb'
Canada's spy agency says it is quite surprising that terrorists have not detonated a crude radioactive bomb, given the availability of materials and ease with which they could be made into a weapon.
HTML | Published: 2006-12-13 | Added: 2007-01-03

Hezbollah still operating in Canada
The Toronto-based National Post newspaper, which used the Access to Information Act to attain copies of several secret intelligence assessments, reported that they were generated in response to last summer's war between Israel and Hezbollah.
HTML | Published: 2006-12-22 | Added: 2007-01-03

O'Connor recommends more oversight of RCMP, CSIS
The report stopped short of recommending a review super agency, as some experts expected, instead opting for a pair of bodies that will monitor the RCMP, CSIS and five other agencies involved with national security.
HTML | Published: 2006-12-13 | Added: 2007-01-03

Spies pillage our economy
In the past year alone CSIS has been conducting counter-intelligence against 25 countries, a similar number of organizations and about 150 individuals. Canada needs new laws dealing with those who steal our secrets, as well as a widened mandate for  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-12-10 | Added: 2006-12-13

Spymasters gather in New Zealand
The world's top spy chiefs - including the heads of the CIA and British, Australian and Canadian agencies - have been meeting in secret this week in New Zealand. The elite Anglo-Saxon group is known as Echelon.
HTML | Published: 2006-11-29 | Added: 2006-12-10

Super-watchdog over Mounties could emerge from bungled Arar case
A super-watchdog to help keep tabs on the RCMP and other players in the intelligence world could emerge from the bungling that marked the Maher Arar affair.
HTML | Published: 2006-12-08 | Added: 2006-12-10

Canadians to deport 'Russian spy'
The intelligence agency said the man had spied on Canada for 10 years and worked for a successor to the Soviet KGB, the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), which deals with foreign operations and intelligence-gathering.
HTML | Published: 2006-12-05 | Added: 2006-12-05

Alleged spy on the radar for awhile: Day
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day hinted yesterday that Canadian intelligence officers were watching a suspected Russian spy long before he was arrested in Montreal two weeks ago.
HTML | Published: 2006-11-28 | Added: 2006-12-03

Canada detainee 'is Russian spy'
Canadian intelligence services say a man arrested trying to leave the country last week is a Russian spy with forged identity papers. The man, who used the false name Paul William Hampel, will appear in court in Montreal facing calls for his  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-11-22 | Added: 2006-11-30

Canada says suspected foreign spy is Russian
Canada believes a suspected foreign spy arrested in Montreal last week was a Russian agent who had pretended to be Canadian for more than a decade. CSIS has complained that foreign governments are mounting increasingly sophisticated spying  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-11-21 | Added: 2006-11-30

I spy... a Russian
The arrest of an alleged Russia spy on Canadian soil has brought espionage out of the shadows. Will it also boost support for one of Ottawa's most controversial post-9/11 policies?
HTML | Published: 2006-11-23 | Added: 2006-11-30

Canada sends Chinese official home over snooping charges: Epoch Times report
The government recently refused to extend the diplomatic visa of Wang Pengfei, a second secretary at the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa suspected of spying on Falun Gong practitioners while posted in Ottawa.
HTML | Published: 2006-11-17 | Added: 2006-11-19

Cold war spying never really ended
In Canada, the government remains the primary target of foreign spies who constantly attempt to infiltrate key federal departments to gain access to political and military secrets, according to CSIS.
HTML | Published: 2006-11-16 | Added: 2006-11-19

Intelligence in Canada: A look under the hood
1984: Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is created to guard against activities that constitute threats to the security of Canada.
HTML | Published: 2006-11-17 | Added: 2006-11-19

Ottawa moves to deport alleged Russian spy
According to unconfirmed reports, an alleged Russian spy was about to leave the country when he was nabbed. If true, former CSIS agent Michel Juneau Katsuya said that would be a significant success for Canada's intelligence agency.
HTML | Published: 2006-11-16 | Added: 2006-11-18

Spy in Canada?
Counter-intelligence officers at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had been working to identify the man, who slipped illicitly into the country several years ago and maintained a low profile while developing a Canadian legend, or false  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-11-15 | Added: 2006-11-18

Mounties brace for bark from a new watchdog
Two months after his first report ripped the RCMP for putting an innocent Canadian in harm's way, O'Connor is adding finishing touches on recommendations to make the famous — sometimes infamous — force publicly accountable.
HTML | Published: 2006-11-09 | Added: 2006-11-12

They're watching you
Canadians should know the same powder keg likely as in the US won't blow here, according to Martin Rudner. First and foremost, it's illegal. And the CSE is subject to considerable oversight.
HTML | Published: 2006-10-30 | Added: 2006-11-05

Watchdog: RCMP failed to give CSIS key Arar info
It's obvious something went awry when the RCMP failed to share key information about the Maher Arar affair with the rest of the Canadian intelligence establishment, says the head of a federal watchdog group.
HTML | Published: 2006-11-01 | Added: 2006-11-05

CSIS kept tabs on 274 terror suspects last year
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service had 274 individual terrorist suspects in its sights last year, according to a new government report that identifies Islamic extremism as the biggest terrorist threat facing Canada.
HTML | Published: 2006-10-27 | Added: 2006-10-30

CSIS boss wants bigger foreign spying role; former MI6 chief seconds call
The head of Canada's spy agency says CSIS must expand its ability to work abroad in an era when Canadians increasingly turn up in hotspots as soldiers, hostages and refugees.
HTML | Published: 2006-10-28 | Added: 2006-10-29

Harper promet une CIA canadienne
Sous un éventuel gouvernement conservateur, le Canada se lancerait dans l'espionnage international. C'est ce qu'a promis Stephen Harper en reprenant une idée soulevée plusieurs fois par les libéraux depuis les attentats terroristes du 11 septembre  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-10-29 | Added: 2006-10-29

Intelligence watchdog raps CSIS over policy on human rights abuses
The watchdog over CSIS recommends the spy agency make it official policy to consider a country's human rights record and possible security abuses before handing over information.
HTML | Published: 2006-10-27 | Added: 2006-10-29

Le SCRS veut élargir son mandat
Le directeur du SCRS souhaite que le ministre de la Sécurité publique aille de l'avant avec son projet d'élargir le mandat de l'agence afin que des espions puissent intervenir dans les points chauds du monde où le Canada est de plus en plus  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-10-28 | Added: 2006-10-29

Spy chief reveals extent of foreign missions
CSIS agents have operated in Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon, its head revealed at a conference. While CSIS has acknowledged its foreign activities in recent years, this is the first time it identified what it was doing in specific countries.
HTML | Published: 2006-10-28 | Added: 2006-10-29

Mole Reportedly Helped Police Thwart Alleged Ont. Terror Plot
A young agricultural engineer was a key part of the investigation to foil the alleged plot to blow up targets around the GTA and the province. The man became a mole for Canadian authorities because he wanted to prevent a tragedy involving civilians.
HTML | Published: 2006-10-14 | Added: 2006-10-15

Reopen probe, Arar asks CSIS watchdog
Maher Arar wants CSIS's watchdog to reopen its investigation into the intelligence agency's failure to recognize that he was being tortured in Syria.
HTML | Published: 2006-10-11 | Added: 2006-10-13

Jaballah dangerous, CSIS warns
A Canadian spy told a judge that he believes Mahmoud Jaballah is a member of the Egyptian Islamic terrorist group Al Jihad and will reconnect with terrorists if released to his family in Scarborough, even under strict bail conditions.
HTML | Published: 2006-10-06 | Added: 2006-10-08

Case casts shadow on Canadian intelligence, US
The Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the RCMP were dragging their feet on the matter, while the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade pursued his release more actively.
HTML | Published: 2006-09-20 | Added: 2006-10-05

Day sees role for MPs in holding RCMP, CSIS to account on security issues
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day suggested an all-party committee of Parliament could keep tabs on both the RCMP and CSIS, and said that a watchdog group of MPs could help ensure the Mounties and CSIS don't go off the rails.
HTML | Published: 2006-10-02 | Added: 2006-10-05

CSIS didn't want Arar returned to Canada
Liberal Public Safety critic Irwin Cotler said he has concerns about Justice Dennis O'Connor's report on Maher Arar which documents CSIS' resistance to bringing Mr. Arar home in 2003, when the government intended to pressure Syria to release him.
HTML | Published: 2006-10-02 | Added: 2006-10-02

CSIS is lost in translations
Insiders say CSIS reports written in French have been ignored or delayed, sometimes by weeks, by the need to translate them so unilingual English-speaking senior officers can understand them.
HTML | Published: 2006-09-12 | Added: 2006-10-02

Defence challenges CSIS intelligence in security certificate case
Defence lawyer Barbara Jackman, arguing for Mahmoud Jaballah, detained on a national security certificate for the second time, categorized the research by CSIS as sloppy and that its officers are susceptible to tunnel vision.
HTML | Published: 2006-09-12 | Added: 2006-10-02

L'existence de la cellule Alliance Base confirmée
En tout 6 pays avec des Canadiens, des Britanniques, des Australiens, des Allemands et des Français sont réunis au sein de cette cellule sous commandement français et dont le but est de traquer les terroristes d'Al Qaïda.
HTML | Published: 2006-09-08 | Added: 2006-10-02

Minister Day favours role for Parliament in overseeing security operations
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said he thinks MPs have a role to play in monitoring both the RCMP and CSIS. But he says the members of any oversight committee would have to be sworn to secrecy on the operational details of security matters.
HTML | Published: 2006-10-01 | Added: 2006-10-02

Report of the Events Relating to Maher Arar: Analysis and Recommendations
Official report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar.
PDF | Published: 2006-09-18 | Added: 2006-10-02

Terrorisme : une base secrète DGSE-CIA à Paris
Cette base antiterroriste est coordonnée par un général français, ancien chef de poste de la DGSE à Washington. Quatre autres pays collaboreraient au dispositif : la Grande-Bretagne, l'Allemagne, le Canada et l'Australie.
HTML | Published: 2005-07-04 | Added: 2006-10-02

CSIS 'ignored' terror threats
Terrorism and other national security reports from Montreal CSIS agents were ignored or delayed in translation because of anti-French prejudices and language incompetence within the spy agency's senior Ottawa ranks.
HTML | Published: 2006-09-09 | Added: 2006-10-01

Spies working in Canada
Foreign spies are plying their trade on Canadian soil, according to a CSIS report. Some countries send their James Bonds to Canada to lead strong-arm espionage, destabilization or intimidation operations in the hearts of local immigrant communities.
HTML | Published: 2006-09-09 | Added: 2006-10-01

As far as shopping for terror, Canada seems to be the place
The FBI-intercepted conversations alluded to in the case bear a striking resemblance to similar ones involving Hezbollah that Canadian spies picked up years ago. Those conversations were overheard and chronicled at length by CSIS.
HTML | Published: 2006-08-28 | Added: 2006-08-30

Ottawa warned economic spying will ramp up in Canada
Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents obtained by CanWest News Service say that while economic spying is often thought of as a Cold War relic, rapid globalization since then is actually making it worse.
HTML | Published: 2006-08-29 | Added: 2006-08-30

The new agenda for Canada's intelligence service
The scale of Canadian security interest in the London plot will have everything to do with the new reality of terrorist organizations, the closeness of alliance relationships in the secret world, and the barb of past criticism of Canadian  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-08-12 | Added: 2006-08-19

CSIS spy networks in mosques not meant to target Islam, experts say
Places of worship are only investigated if suspicious individuals are known to frequent them, former employees of the spy agency and the RCMP said Monday in response to media reports that said CSIS has infiltrated virtually every mosque in Toronto.
HTML | Published: 2006-08-01 | Added: 2006-08-07

Alleged Toronto terrorist cell included Canadian Security Intelligence Service mole
The revelation that CSIS had a mole planted within the group arrested in Toronto in early June for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks is being used by Canadian authorities and the corporate media to continue their campaign to create a climate of  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-07-28 | Added: 2006-07-30

ASEAN To Enter Counterterrorism Declaration With Canada
The declaration details the commitment to exchange intelligence on terrorist organizations, their attack methods, weapons, financing and movement along with sharing of counter terrorism measures and experiences in each country, according to a draft of  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-07-25 | Added: 2006-07-30

Muslims say CSIS has spies in many mosques
Canada's police and intelligence agencies, through their use of paid Muslim informants, effectively have spies in virtually every major mosque in Toronto.
HTML | Published: 2006-07-28 | Added: 2006-07-30

U.S. gets lesson on fighting terror
Four members of the House homeland security subcommittee on intelligence met with CSIS, the RCMP and the Ontario Provincial Police for briefings on the operation that led to the June 2 arrest of 17 suspects in an alleged homegrown terrorist cell.
HTML | Published: 2006-07-18 | Added: 2006-07-21

Canadian Muslim says he infiltrated "terror" gang
Mubin Shaikh told CBC television and two major newspapers that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) spy service had asked him last year to try to infiltrate the group of 17 men, who were arrested in early June.
HTML | Published: 2006-07-18 | Added: 2006-07-18

U.S. to study security lessons
Four U.S. lawmakers arrive in Toronto tomorrow to learn how Canadian authorities thwarted an alleged terrorist plot last month. The members of Congress will likely meet with local law enforcement officials, the RCMP, CSIS as well as local Muslim  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-07-15 | Added: 2006-07-18

Is using informants in terror cases entrapment?
The Toronto Star reports that sources say the man first worked for Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS), and then became a paid RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] agent once a criminal investigation was launched.
HTML | Published: 2006-07-13 | Added: 2006-07-14

Mole infiltrated alleged terror group: report
A new report says a prominent member of Toronto's Muslim community infiltrated an alleged terror cell in Ontario as a mole for CSIS and the RCMP.
HTML | Published: 2006-07-14 | Added: 2006-07-14

Air India inquiry gets under way
Families of the victims were furious when they saw the alleged B.C. plotters walk last year. It didn't help to hear the investigation had been compromised by bungling, the destruction of wiretaps and rivalry between the RCMP and CSIS.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-21 | Added: 2006-07-06

Arar inquiry moves closer to report, but some evidence may stay secret
RCMP investigators acknowledged they had Arar under surveillance and shared information about him with U.S. officials. But the Mounties denied any role in the decision to send him to Syria. So did CSIS, although they discussed the case with the  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-06-27 | Added: 2006-07-06

Canada could escape attack, CSIS says
CSIS Director Jim Judd said it's possible Canada will be spared major terrorist attacks like those that have hit other Western countries in recent years.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-20 | Added: 2006-07-06

CSIS spy school curriculum too secret to talk about
Every summer for the past seven years, espionage specialists from around the world have gathered in Ottawa for spy school. The teacher is the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. The pupils are a state secret.
HTML | Published: 2006-07-04 | Added: 2006-07-06

FBI probes Toronto tie to foreign terror cells
However, I can say that both the RCMP and CSIS co-operate closely with U.S. law-enforcement agencies on investigations of mutual interest. We are in contact with the U.S. with respect to [the Toronto] arrests.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-23 | Added: 2006-07-06

Foreign spies target Canada's natural resource sector, CSIS says
In its latest annual report, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service warns scientific and technological developments in Canada's natural resource sector are also a prime target.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-22 | Added: 2006-07-06

Montreal man accused of being trained Sikh assassin closer to deportation
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says there are reasonable grounds to believe Sogi, 45, is actually Gurnam Singh, alias Piare Singh, a member of the Sikh extremist organization Babbar Khalsa International.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-29 | Added: 2006-07-06

Homegrown terror: It's not over
For years, police and CSIS spooks have kept a close eye on the Salaheddin Islamic Centre, a former warehouse in east-end Toronto. From the comfort of their cars, anonymous agents watched Ahmed Said Khadr -- Osama bin Laden's senior man in Canada.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-19 | Added: 2006-06-23

Le SCRS a-t-il provoqué Toronto?
M. Galati se demande si l'importance de ce réseau n'a pas été sciemment gonflée par le SCRS pour monter un spectacle à des fins politiques.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-20 | Added: 2006-06-22

Canada no haven for terrorists, CSIS head tells U.S.
The head of Canada's spy agency dismissed American suggestions that Canada is a haven for terrorists and a nation of lax immigration laws.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-15 | Added: 2006-06-17

CSIS asked suspects' parents for help
Months before police moved in to arrest 17 terror suspects alleged to have planned bombings against targets in Southern Ontario, Canadian spies asked some of the suspects' parents to keep an eye on their children.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-15 | Added: 2006-06-17

Canada to send more spies abroad, Day says
The next front in Canada's war on terrorism will involve sending more spies abroad, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day says. Mr. Day said Canada needs to increase its ability to collect foreign intelligence abroad.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-08 | Added: 2006-06-10

Foreign spies mulled
Facing questions about Canada's intelligence-gathering capacity at home and abroad, Day said he wants MPs to study whether it's best to expand CSIS' operations abroad or to establish a new independent, CIA-like foreign spy agency.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-08 | Added: 2006-06-10

Terror in Toronto or Tempest in a Teapot?
The arrest in Toronto of seventeen men, mostly quite young, for conspiracy to bomb places in Southern Ontario has raised a storm of comment. Unfortunately, much of it has been either premature or wrong.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-10 | Added: 2006-06-10

Wake-up call for Canada
A Toronto author says his just released book -- Inside Canadian Intelligence -- was written as a wake-up call. One day after Dwight Hamilton released his book Torontonians found out there may have been a homegrown terror ring in their midst.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-09 | Added: 2006-06-10

Nevermind foreign terrorists, why is Canada growing its own extremists?
"Increasingly, we are learning of more and more extremists that are homegrown," says a declassified CSIS report obtained by the National Post. "The implications of this shift are important."
HTML | Published: 2006-06-03 | Added: 2006-06-09

Nine lessons from CSIS's war on terror
Canadians need to wake up, homegrown phenomenon, homegrowns have struck before, the web is the new Afghanistan, Afghan mission's increased threat, CSIS sees hundreds of targets, CSIS active abroad, Khadr treated with kid gloves, CSIS spies can't  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-06-06 | Added: 2006-06-07

Terror in Toronto
According to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (Canada's CIA), the group intended to blow up government buildings, including the CSIS and RCMP headquarters in Toronto, in retaliation for Canada's support of America in the War on Terror.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-05 | Added: 2006-06-07

Canada Arrests 17 in Al-Qaeda Inspired Bomb Plot
Canadian police arrested 12 men and five youths, saying they were members of a terrorist ring that plotted to build bombs to set off in southern Ontario, including the downtown Toronto office of Canada's spy agency.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-03 | Added: 2006-06-06

Terror suspects plotted two separate attacks
The young men charged with plotting terrorist attacks against Canadian targets were allegedly planning two separate strikes one to detonate a truck bomb to destroy a significant building and the other to open fire on a crowd in a public place.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-06 | Added: 2006-06-06

17 Suspected Terrorists Arrested in Canada
Canadian police and intelligence agents say they foiled a
HTML | Published: 2006-06-03 | Added: 2006-06-04

Terrorism threat becomes reality for Canadians as cops allege homegrown plot
The lingering threat of global terrorism became a concrete reality for Canadians on Saturday following allegations that 17 people plotted an imminent attack with three times the explosive material used in the devastating Oklahoma City bombing.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-04 | Added: 2006-06-04

Twelve held in Canada terror raid
The RCMP and other government security agencies, including intelligence and border security, have been conducting a lengthy investigation involving 400 people - the largest of its kind in Canada.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-03 | Added: 2006-06-03

Canada spy warns of home-grown terror
A Canadian intelligence official has warned lawmakers that the country faces a threat of home-grown terrorists and could see itself the victim of an attack similar to the 7 July bombings of London's transport network.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-31 | Added: 2006-06-01

Counterterror tool time
The evidence usually takes the form of raw intelligence which couldn't be entered in a court of law anyway. The fact that security certificates have a much lower burden of proof probably explains why Ottawa prefers them to criminal charges under  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-05-31 | Added: 2006-06-01

CSIS concedes nine of 10 immigration applicants not screened
About 90 per cent of immigration applicants from Pakistan and Afghanistan hotbeds for Islamic fundamentalism and central in the fight against terrorism haven't been adequately screened for security concerns over the past five years, CSIS said.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-30 | Added: 2006-05-30

CSIS implements a new operational structure
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) implemented a new operational structure on May 1st, 2006.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-01 | Added: 2006-05-30

CSIS stretched too far
Canada's stretched spy agency can vet a mere fraction of immigrants and refugees coming from the fertile terrorist breeding grounds of Pakistan and Afghanistan, says a top CSIS official.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-29 | Added: 2006-05-30

CSIS to be investigated
The watchdog over CSIS has been asked to probe the prickly question of whether the spy agency relies on information extracted through torture.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-28 | Added: 2006-05-30

Home-grown terrorists living in Canada: CSIS
CSIS is warning of an increasing threat from home-grown terrorists already living in communities across the country. Young Canadians from immigrant backgrounds are becoming radicalized through the internet and are looking for targets at home, not  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-05-29 | Added: 2006-05-30

International and National Terrorist Threats to Surface Transportation
CSIS conducted classified studies on the terrorist threat to Canadian transportation systems. Two of those classified studies have now been declassified and released in redacted form.
PDF | Published: 2003-03-04 | Added: 2006-05-30

National security organizations open up on racial profiling, 'secret police'
Fears about racial profiling, secret evidence and abuse of power were at the forefront of a discussion between Edmontonians and Canadian security organizations. Representatives from CSIS, the RCMP and CBSA met with about 50 members of the public.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-29 | Added: 2006-05-30

New CSIS organisational chart
The Service's new structure is geographically-based, with each branch being responsible for investigating all threats emanating from their respective geographic areas.
JPG | Published: 2006-05-01 | Added: 2006-05-30

Senate grills witnesses on Afghan mission
RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli and CSIS Director Jim Judd were expected to answer questions about whether Canada faces a greater threat to security within its own borders because of what its troops are doing to help rebuild Afghanistan.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-29 | Added: 2006-05-30

The International Terrorist Threat to Maritime Transportation
CSIS conducted classified studies on the terrorist threat to Canadian transportation systems. Two of those classified studies have now been declassified and released in redacted form.
PDF | Published: 2003-05-15 | Added: 2006-05-30

Assessing the terror threat in Canada
The annual CSIS Report by its director Jim Judd states that it is now probable an Islamic extremist group will try to launch an attack on Canadian soil. It's a sobering statement, but not surprising.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-16 | Added: 2006-05-21

Even James Bond had to start someplace
Canada's spy agency is undertaking a major recruitment drive for the first time in almost two decades. And in an unusual move for a top-secret organization, CSIS launched a year-long ad campaign in the career sections of leading Canadian newspapers.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-17 | Added: 2006-05-21

Canada needs to do more spying: Day
Canada's public safety minister says the country needs a more robust foreign spying capability to counter terrorists out to attack the civilized world. Stockwell Day said the government would either create a new spy agency or expand CSIS' mandate.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-10 | Added: 2006-05-18

Surveillant
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service is seeking applications for a career in Surveillance in the cities of Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-16 | Added: 2006-05-18

Al Qaida assault on Canada 'probable,' warns CSIS
While the threat from al-Qaida remains strongest overseas, a terrorist attack on Canadian soil is "now probable,'' the head of Canada's spy agency has quietly advised the government.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-09 | Added: 2006-05-17

CSIS agent's tip called 'strange'
An agent from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, known only as "Rocky from Windsor," told the OPP that Stoney Point Indians had weapons weeks before native activist Anthony (Dudley) George was killed in a massive police operation.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-09 | Added: 2006-05-17

Keeping Canada safe
Canada has been accused of "freeloading" off other western intelligence services. This winter's election campaign saw the Conservatives promise to expand Canada's ability to collect foreign intelligence.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-15 | Added: 2006-05-17

Super-spies: New agency or CSIS?
The Conservative government, he said, is still considering whether to create a separate new service to gather foreign intelligence and conduct overseas activities, or simply to expand the legal mandate for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-11 | Added: 2006-05-17

La menace terroriste ne doit pas faire oublier les risques d'espionnage
Malgré l'obsession actuelle des services secrets envers la menace terroriste, des puissances étrangères se livrent toujours à l'espionnage classique et la cueillette de renseignements a certainement augmenté au cours des dernières années au Canada.
HTML | Published: 2006-04-09 | Added: 2006-05-16

Canada urged to build foreign spying agency
Whether Canada should create a foreign spy service, along the lines of the CIA or MI6, has been an on-again, off-again debate for decades. The new government has vowed to create a foreign intelligence agency, although it has yet to reveal plans.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-04 | Added: 2006-05-08

Canada pinches Tamil Tigers' pocketbooks
The United States, Britain, and India have already banned the Tamil Tigers as a terrorist organization. And CSIS recommended that Canada ban the group in accordance with the Anti-Terrorism Act on three separate occasions, most recently a year ago.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-03 | Added: 2006-05-03

Harper launches Air India inquiry
Bob Rae recommended the inquiry focus on whether the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service co-operated adequately in the investigation.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-01 | Added: 2006-05-01

Israel denies passport claims
Israel is denying allegations its secret service is using Canadian passports and the Canadian government is downplaying the claims, but a former Canadian spy expert says it would be naive to think this kind of trade in documentation isn't  [...]
HTML | Published: 1998-11-05 | Added: 2006-04-29

Secret agent blues
With the Mounties who have filled our spy ranks since 1984 slowly ending their careers, CSIS is hunting for a large number of intelligence officers, and watchers, for surveillance work.
HTML | Published: 2006-04-28 | Added: 2006-04-29

Islamic group's lawsuit against former CSIS official is dismissed
The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations has issued a press release purporting to report the outcome of a defamation lawsuit in which David B. Harris, INSIGNIS Director, was a defendant.
HTML | Published: 2006-04-24 | Added: 2006-04-27

Chinese ambassador rejects espionage claims
CSIS intelligence files reportedly suggest that an estimated 1,000 Chinese agents and informants operate in Canada. Many of them are visiting students, scientists and business people, told to steal cutting-edge technology.
HTML | Published: 2006-04-20 | Added: 2006-04-25

Shocking Autobiography Published "Canada's Spies Attacked Me: A True Story of CSIS Terrorizing a Canadian Abroad"
Canada's Spies Attacked Me: A True Story of CSIS Terrorizing a Canadian Abroad is a autobiography about how the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) attacked the author, Mark Garzone, in America.
HTML | Published: 2006-04-23 | Added: 2006-04-25

Anatomy of the Baghdad hostage rescue
The mission, led by Britain's secretive Task Force Black, involved the work of several Canadian agencies, including the RCMP, Department of Defence, CSIS and soldiers from the elite counterterrorism unit JTF 2.
HTML | Published: 2006-03-27 | Added: 2006-04-18

Espionage still a danger to Canada: CSIS watchdog
The federal watchdog over Canada's spy agency is warning that the current obsession with terrorism shouldn't blind CSIS to another danger: good old-fashioned espionage.
HTML | Published: 2006-04-09 | Added: 2006-04-18

Government 'concerned' about Chinese espionage
As the opposition leader, Harper himself pressured Martin to confront the Chinese government, quoting estimates by former Canadian Security Intelligence Service agent Michel Juneau-Katsuya on the number of spies operating in Canada.
HTML | Published: 2006-04-14 | Added: 2006-04-18

Internal CSIS report maps out new plan for foreign spy operations
A secret CSIS task force has called for a fresh injection of resources to bolster the spy agency's work overseas against terrorism. The internal blueprint is expected to chart the course for CSIS efforts to gather intelligence in foreign countries.
HTML | Published: 2006-04-03 | Added: 2006-04-18

Tamil Tigers outlawed
Although the Tigers are one of the most active terrorist groups in Canada, the Liberals had refused to outlaw their activities, frustrating the RCMP, CSIS and local police forces, which have long been investigating the Tigers' Canadian networks.
HTML | Published: 2006-04-08 | Added: 2006-04-18

How 200 soldiers saved 3 pacifists
Agents with Canada's spy service, Mounties and analysts with CSE, rotated through Baghdad's Green Zone during the four months the hostages were held captive. Members of the Defence Department's elite JTF-2 were also on the ground.
HTML | Published: 2006-03-25 | Added: 2006-03-26

Canadian spies believe a U.S. pullout from Iraq could hearten insurgents
A secret study by Canada's spy agency says insurgents wreaking havoc in Iraq would see a U.S. withdrawal of troops as a significant victory unless Baghdad first has a stable government. CSIS paints a bleak picture of dire proportions.
HTML | Published: 2006-03-13 | Added: 2006-03-14

Canadian intelligence approved CIA flights
CIA planes have landed in Canada 74 times since the 2001 terror attacks. Internal government briefing notes revealed that senior intelligence officials from six government agencies, including CSIS, met in late November to discuss the flights.
HTML | Published: 2006-02-24 | Added: 2006-03-11

Made-in-Canada threat worries CSIS
Jim Judd, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told the Toronto Star in an interview last year the spy agency was aware of Canadians who had gone to Iraq to join the insurgency and was concerned about their eventual return to  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-02-11 | Added: 2006-02-22

Security experts back foreign spy agency
National security experts are praising prime minister-designate Stephen Harper's proposal to create a foreign spy service. The idea for a Canadian-style CIA was announced in the Conservative election platform, but received scant attention.
HTML | Published: 2006-01-30 | Added: 2006-02-04

CSIS probes Durham hijacking
Canada's spy agency is looking at the hijacking of a truck loaded with $500,000 worth of nickel pellets.
HTML | Published: 2006-01-21 | Added: 2006-01-25

Conservatives would beef up Canada's overseas spying capabilities
Conservatives would beef up Canada's overseas spying capabilities. Perhaps the Tories would simply expand CSIS's overseas activities but the cost of boosting Canada's foreign intelligence capabilities would depend largely on which option they  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-01-11 | Added: 2006-01-21

Canada's Conservatives to Set up New Anti-Terror Spy Agency
Stephen Harper said his government would set up a separate foreign spy agency to independently counter threats before they reach Canada. Harper said that the Canadian Foreign Intelligence Agency would fall under the guise of a new security czar.
HTML | Published: 2006-01-07 | Added: 2006-01-14

Harper to create Canadian CIA
Stephen Harper will create a Canadian spy organization like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to collect information on threats to Canadian security, counter threats overseas and add to allied intelligence capabilities.
HTML | Published: 2006-01-06 | Added: 2006-01-14

At last, an inquiry
Given the serious issues raised by former Ontario premier Bob Rae in his report on the 1985 terrorist bombing of an Air India jetliner, the federal government is wisely, though belatedly, calling for an inquiry.
HTML | Published: 2005-12-01 | Added: 2005-12-03

Citizens to foot the bill for CSIS
The federal government has introduced a bill to make it easier for police and Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to monitor private cell phone conversations and communication over the internet.
HTML | Published: 2005-11-30 | Added: 2005-12-03

CSIS goes to Hollywood
A new American pilot, Underfunded, will feature a Canuck spy who outwits his CIA counterpart.
HTML | Published: 2005-11-24 | Added: 2005-11-28

Jihadists born here pose new threat
Counter-terrorism investigators are finding an increasing number of
HTML | Published: 2005-11-19 | Added: 2005-11-28

Canada bomb inquiry to go ahead
Canada's government has ordered a public inquiry into how the 1985 bombing of an Air India jet with the loss of 329 lives was investigated. The case was mired in controversy after it transpired evidence was destroyed by Canada's spy agency.
HTML | Published: 2005-11-23 | Added: 2005-11-24

CIA's joint intelligence centers showing results
The CIA has operated the joint intelligence centers in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and the multinational center in Paris, codenamed Alliance Base, includes representatives from Britain, France, Germany, Canada and Australia.
HTML | Published: 2005-11-20 | Added: 2005-11-22

Security oversight too diffuse, SIRC chief says
Many complaints about the conduct of national security investigations cannot be fully and properly investigated because of divisions of authority even within the federal government, said Gary Filmon, chairman of the Security Intelligence Review  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-11-18 | Added: 2005-11-22

Legislation For Lawful Interception of Communications Introduced
The Modernization of Investigative Techniques Act will make subscriber contact information from telecommunications service providers available on request to designated law enforcement and CSIS officials.
HTML | Published: 2005-11-15 | Added: 2005-11-15

Watching the watchers
CSIS is still a relatively young organization requiring serious oversight. Such oversight could be provided by the proposed nine-person national security committee but their involvement will have to be more comprehensive than a night or two at a  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-11-07 | Added: 2005-11-08

Harkat still a terror threat
A senior analyst with Canada's national security service says Ottawa's Mohamed Harkat continues to pose a terrorist threat, even though he has been jailed for 34 months and his picture has been featured in newspapers across the country.
HTML | Published: 2005-11-03 | Added: 2005-11-06

Canada spy agency says it disrupted suspected terror cell
Canadian intelligence officials confirmed that authorities busted up a small suspected terrorist cell in Toronto, including an Algerian man they allege is an explosives expert trained by al Qaeda.
HTML | Published: 2005-11-03 | Added: 2005-11-03

CSIS head says Iraq war serious concern for Canada's safety
Jim Judd, the director of Canada's spy agency, says the main terror threat facing Canada comes from radicalized Canadians. And he says CSIS has seen Iraq cause that radicalization in real cases.
HTML | Published: 2005-10-31 | Added: 2005-11-02

CSIS promises on torture baseless, watchdog says
CSIS has been giving false assurances to the government that it can guarantee the intelligence it receives from foreign agencies is not obtained by torture, SIRC said in its report to Parliament.
HTML | Published: 2005-11-01 | Added: 2005-11-02

La politique canadienne de sécurité nationale, une conséquence de la transformation des institutions publiques de sécurité depuis la fin de la Guerre froide?
The Canadian Forces, Law Enforcement Agencies, Public Safety Ministries and Intelligence Services are some of the State institutions that should adjust to security and threat changes, in line with the newly proposed Canada's National Security  [...]
PDF | Published: 2004-10-30 | Added: 2005-11-01

Liddar probe is an example of how CSIS destroys lives
A former CSIS member says the spy agency's recent slipshod investigation of Bhupinder Liddar whom CSIS mistakenly declared a security threat is
HTML | Published: 2005-09-19 | Added: 2005-10-26

McLellan contradicts CSIS on torture policy
CSIS does not want intelligence from foreign agencies if the information may have been obtained by torture, Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan says, contradicting testimony from senior CSIS officials last year at the Arar inquiry.
HTML | Published: 2005-09-16 | Added: 2005-10-26

Iraq is University of Terror
Iraq has become a
HTML | Published: 2005-10-21 | Added: 2005-10-24

Iraq now a terror training center-Canada spy boss
Jim Judd, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told the Toronto Star newspaper that a new generation of militants was using the war in Iraq to get first-hand experience.
HTML | Published: 2005-10-20 | Added: 2005-10-24

Report lashes Canadian spies' gross incompetence
Canada's spy service was guilty of gross incompetence in the case of a diplomat who was wrongly denied a security clearance, according to an official report. The 23-page document is a deep embarrassment for the Canadian Security Intelligence  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-09-14 | Added: 2005-10-05

Terrorism war is fought by the book
The book is a terrorist trade craft manual, scooped up in a raid on a suspected al-Qaida cell in Manchester. CSIS, the Mounties and the Foreign Office intelligence people are probably familiar with such instructions but what do they plan to counter  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-09-06 | Added: 2005-09-18

Terrorists are perpetual threat, CSIS says
Individuals who attended terrorist training camps or have opted for radical Islam must be considered threats to public safety for the indefinite future. It is highly unlikely that they will cast off their views on jihad and justification for  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-09-10 | Added: 2005-09-18

CSIS didn't suggest Arar stay in Syria: official
The No. 2 man at Canada's spy service is vigorously denying claims that his agency wanted Maher Arar to remain in Syria rather than be freed from prison and return home.
HTML | Published: 2005-08-25 | Added: 2005-08-31

Telus and the sordid past of Canada Post and CSIS
The shady links between Canada Post and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), especially those aimed at unionized postal workers, date back decades. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that such activities may occur elsewhere in the  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-08-31 | Added: 2005-08-31

CSIS rapped over envoy fracas
Canada's spy agency received a rebuke yesterday from its civilian watchdog, which concluded that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was wrong to block a diplomatic appointment to India over national security concerns.
HTML | Published: 2005-08-04 | Added: 2005-08-10

CSIS stymied by tech-savvy terrorists
Canada's spy agency is having trouble keeping tabs on technologically knowledgeable terrorists and criminals, an internal document suggests, and outdated laws are to blame.
HTML | Published: 2005-08-08 | Added: 2005-08-10

Security review committee clears diplomatic nominee, lawyer says
Bhupinder Liddar's lawyer Janice Payne said SIRC veteran Paule Gauthier was categorical in her findings that there was no basis for the conclusion drawn by CSIS that Liddar was a security risk.
HTML | Published: 2005-08-03 | Added: 2005-08-04

Hunting al-Qaeda: Inside the RCMP's search for a terror cell
In the months following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, Canadian police and intelligence officials fanned out across Ontario and Quebec in search of an alleged homegrown al-Qaeda "sleeper" cell.
HTML | Published: 2005-08-02 | Added: 2005-08-03

Le SCRS mène une rare bataille publique contre un imam de Toronto
Le service canadien d'espionnage mène une rare bataille publique contre un imam torontois qui affirme que les agents fédéraux terrorisent les musulmans canadiens au lieu de lutter contre le terrorisme.
HTML | Published: 2005-07-27 | Added: 2005-07-30

50 Terror Groups Believed Operating in Canada
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service said terrorist representatives are actively raising money, procuring weapons, "manipulating immigrant communities" and facilitating travel to and from the United States and other countries.
HTML | Published: 2005-07-04 | Added: 2005-07-29

Alliance Base: Michèle Alliot-Marie évoque une coopération très poussée avec les Etats-Unis
Alliance Base, financée en majeure partie par la CIA, a pour objectif de lutter contre le terrorisme islamiste et notamment Al-Qaïda, et regrouperait des agents français, britanniques, allemands, canadiens, australiens et américains.
HTML | Published: 2005-07-04 | Added: 2005-07-29

Une structure antiterroriste unit Paris et Washington
Utilisant les services d'agents canadiens, allemands, britanniques et australiens, Alliance Base choisit méticuleusement ses cas, détermine un pays comme théâtre d'opération et remet entre les mains des agents de ce pays la tâche d'exécuter  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-07-04 | Added: 2005-07-29

CSIS angered by imam's campaign
Canada's spy service is waging a rare public battle against an outspoken Scarborough imam who claims agents who are supposed to fight terrorism are instead terrorizing Canadian Muslims.
HTML | Published: 2005-07-27 | Added: 2005-07-28

Help from France key in covert operations
The Alliance Base organisation is unique in the world because it is multinational and actually plans operations instead of sharing information among countries. It has case officers from Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Australia and the United  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-07-02 | Added: 2005-07-03

Interview: Former CSIS Agent Michel Juneau-Katsuya Responds
Former CSIS agent Michel Juneau-Katsuya answers questions on the work of Canadian intelligence and of its agents.
HTML | Published: 2005-06-24 | Added: 2005-06-27

Al Qaida recruterait en Afrique
Le continent africain pourrait être une terre fertile pour le réseau terroriste al-Qaida d'Osama ben Laden, selon le SCRS. Les organisations extrémistes étrangères comme al-Qaida ont exploité l'environnement permissif de ce continent.
HTML | Published: 2005-05-09 | Added: 2005-06-19

Des extrémistes islamistes de retour au Canada
Des combattants de mouvements extrémistes islamistes seraient de retour au Canada après des séjours dans des camps d'entraînement dans d'autres pays, selon un rapport des Service canadien du renseignement de sécurité (SCRS).
HTML | Published: 2005-05-09 | Added: 2005-06-19

Le Canada, réservoir de recrutement pour le réseau Al-Qaïda
Le Canada est devenu un réservoir de recrutement pour le réseau terroriste Al-Qaïda, selon un rapport du SCRS. Les recrues sont hautement appréciées par les groupes terroristes en raison de leur connaissance de l'Occident.
TEXT | Published: 2005-05-15 | Added: 2005-06-19

Syrians offered to allow CSIS to attend Maher Arar interrogation
A top diplomat says Syria offered to let a Canadian security officer attend the interrogation of Maher Arar to see that everything was being done above board. In the end nobody from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service sat in on the  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-06-15 | Added: 2005-06-19

How CSIS botched Arar file
CSIS was not in the Middle East to extract information from Arar or even sift through the results of the interrogation but to strike a secret deal to exchange information related to Sept. 11, the Iraq war and the Afghanistan Al Qaeda camps.
HTML | Published: 2005-06-09 | Added: 2005-06-10

CSIS wanted gov't to leave Arar in Syria: memo
A draft Foreign Affairs memo says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service "made it clear to the department that they would prefer to have him remain in Syria, rather than return to Canada."
HTML | Published: 2005-06-03 | Added: 2005-06-05

Graham denies knowing of Arar torture
The RCMP and CSIS balked at efforts by Foreign Affairs to draft a letter to the Syrian government saying Arar had been cleared of any suspicion of terrorist activity in Canada.
HTML | Published: 2005-05-31 | Added: 2005-06-03

CSIS visited Syria during Arar's detention
Canada's spy agency paid a mysterious visit to Syria in the fall of 2002 while Maher Arar was in detention there on suspicion of terrorist activity.
HTML | Published: 2005-05-25 | Added: 2005-05-26

CSIS visited Syria during Arar's imprisonment
A government official at the inquiry into the imprisonment of Maher Arar in Syria has revealed that Canadian intelligence agents paid a visit to that country while Arar was detained there.
HTML | Published: 2005-05-25 | Added: 2005-05-26

Analysis: W. Africa may be terror hotbed
A newly declassified Canadian intelligence report warns that West Africa is breeding a militant Islamist threat with "significant potential" for growth for groups such as Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.
HTML | Published: 2005-05-20 | Added: 2005-05-23

Presentation by Jim Judd, CSIS Director, to the Senate Committee on Anti-terrorism Act
I'm here to give you an overview of the terrorist threats facing Canada. This is, of course, in the context of your review of C-36, the anti-terrorism legislation adopted several years ago.
LINK | Published: 2005-03-07 | Added: 2005-05-21

Presentation by the CSIS Director to the Subcommittee on Public Safety and National Security
I am pleased to be here to provide a security threat assessment to assist the Committee in its consideration of C-36.
LINK | Published: 2005-02-22 | Added: 2005-05-21

Canadian converts to Islam being recruited by al Qaeda: Report
Canadian intelligence experts believe that converts to Islam in the country are becoming a major source of Al-Qaeda combatants and pose a risk to security.
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Al-Qaeda's Canadian recruits 'highly prized': report
The majority of al-Qaeda recruits in Canada are being trained at home, not abroad, making the terror network a direct threat to Canada, and the homegrown recruits are highly prized for their familiarity with Western societies, says a CSIS report.
HTML | Published: 2005-05-15 | Added: 2005-05-16

Canada fears new generation of terrorists
"The presence of young, committed jihadists in Canada is a matter of grave concern," states one Canadian intelligence report, titled "Sons of the Father: The next generation of Islamic extremists in Canada."
HTML | Published: 2005-05-12 | Added: 2005-05-16

Terrorists building base in Canada: report
A generation of young jehadis with Canadian nationality or residency who have been through terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and elsewhere pose a threat to Canada and its allies, two Canadian intelligence reports have warned.
HTML | Published: 2005-05-13 | Added: 2005-05-16

CSIS warns Africa ripe for al-Quaida
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service warns much of Africa could be fertile soil for Osama bin Laden's terrorist network to cultivate new recruits.
HTML | Published: 2005-05-08 | Added: 2005-05-12

Overview of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Speaking Points for Jim Judd, CSIS Director, at the Inaugural Meeting of the Cross-cultural Roundtable on Security.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-08 | Added: 2005-05-12

Droege's death won't slow down extremists, ex-CSIS mole says
The shooting death of Wolfgang Droege will do little to slow the growth of a new generation of potentially violent white supremacists in Canada, warns a former CSIS mole who helped discredit the neo-Nazi leader.
HTML | Published: 2005-04-25 | Added: 2005-04-26

Academic contradicts McLellan's claim
Stuart Farson said that Parliament can invoke a privilege dating back hundreds of years in British common law to demand access to persons, papers, and records in a public inquiry.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-24 | Added: 2005-04-24

CSIS credibility in question
This week CSIS earned many critics when a judge determined that the spy agency destroyed critical evidence rather than turn it over to the RCMP which was also investigating the Air India bombing.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-21 | Added: 2005-04-24

Why does CSIS destroy its wiretap tapes?
Two decades after the Canadian Security Intelligence Service erased wiretap recordings that might have been key evidence in the Air-India case, CSIS's standard procedure is still to destroy what it calls "intercepted" conversations.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-22 | Added: 2005-04-24