Canadian Intelligence Resource Centre Archives

Air India report due in early 2010, lawyer for victims' families hopes for tough measures
RCMP Commissioner expects the Mounties will come under harsh criticism in the report for their handling of the case. He also said that would be "fair and reasonable" given the problems plaguing the Canadian intelligence community at the time.
HTML | Published: 2009-12-16 | Added: 2010-01-09

Canada Reviews Anti-Terrorist Law
Among the items being eyed for change is the national security certificate system used to arrest and deport Canadians considered threats to the country's security.
HTML | Published: 2009-12-14 | Added: 2010-01-09

Canadian 'plot' sparked high alert
The storybook inauguration of Barack Obama played out with Washington on high alert for a major terror plot from Canada. The RCMP confirmed its National Security Criminal Investigations unit worked closely with U.S. counterparts to investigate.
HTML | Published: 2010-01-05 | Added: 2010-01-09

Crackdown is cosmetic, Canada still vulnerable to aviation terrorism, expert says
Pre-emptive security is what you need. You need to be anticipating who's going to be doing what. That's what good intelligence is about. Canada's aviation security system lags far behind many other developed nations.
HTML | Published: 2009-12-26 | Added: 2010-01-09

Did five Torontonians join jihad in Somalia?
The five friends, in their early to mid-20s, grew up and attended schools in Toronto. All five disappeared. RCMP and CSIS officers are investigating the disappearances, canvassing areas in Little Mogadishu and questioning families.
HTML | Published: 2009-12-12 | Added: 2010-01-09

Documents implicating Harkat to stay secret
In a ruling announced yesterday, Justice Simon Noel decided not to release CSIS reports concerning covert human sources to Mr. Harkat or his lawyer, on the grounds that doing so could harm both national security and the individuals involved.
HTML | Published: 2009-12-12 | Added: 2010-01-09

Federal Court quashes security certificate against Hassan Almrei
None of those things justifies branding him a terror suspect, concluded Mosley, who said that CSIS based its assumption on stale evidence and faulty human sources who have turned out to be less than credible.
HTML | Published: 2009-12-14 | Added: 2010-01-09

The thin line of oversight
What was illegal in the 1960s and 1970s might be legal today. Under a law passed not long after Sept. 11, 2001, designated officers have the right to break the law in limited circumstances, for law-enforcement purposes.
HTML | Published: 2009-12-14 | Added: 2010-01-09

Under U.S. pressure, Canada toils in secret on complex air screening system
In sharp contrast to the splashy announcement of see-through airport scanners, officials have been quietly toiling in the shadows on the complex system, which involves input from the Canada Border Services Agency, Transport Canada, CSIS and RCMP.
HTML | Published: 2010-01-08 | Added: 2010-01-09

What Israel can teach us about security
In Israel, a coordinated intelligence gathering operation produces a constantly evolving series of threat analyses and vulnerability studies. There is absolutely no intelligence and threat analysis done in Canada or the United States.
HTML | Published: 2009-12-31 | Added: 2010-01-09

Anti-Terrorism Act deserves to stay dead
Where Canada's laws were inadequate to the threat of international terrorism, the anti-terrorism bill filled in legal gaps. The problem is that with two of these measures, the 2001 legislative initiative went far beyond what was needed or useful.
HTML | Published: 2009-03-13 | Added: 2009-04-11

Alleged Canadian terror plot has worldwide links
Through the work and co-operation of the RCMP, CSIS, local law enforcement and Toronto's Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET), acts of violence by extremist groups may have been prevented.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-04 | Added: 2009-03-07

Canada called on to increase spying on China
The report argues that better counterespionage (from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service), improved eavesdropping (from the Communications Security Establishment), and more rigorous assessments (from the Privy Council Office) could improve  [...]
HTML | Published: 2009-02-27 | Added: 2009-03-07

2010 Olympics may be targeted by foreign spies: CSIS
Canada's intelligence service is warning about an espionage threat to the 2010 Winter Olympics in British Columbia and says foreign spies may try to steal the security plans for the Games.
HTML | Published: 2008-12-10 | Added: 2009-02-22

Back in the saddle?
At the heart of the RCMP reforms is the effort to create a new powerhouse at headquarters in Ottawa – the National Security Criminal Investigations directorate.
HTML | Published: 2009-02-06 | Added: 2009-02-22

Bonding with water and hosers
In an intriguing exchange near the movie's end, Bond asks one lovely: "You're Canadian intelligence, aren't you?" Canadian intelligence? That drew a chuckle at a Vancouver screening.
HTML | Published: 2008-12-11 | Added: 2009-02-22

Canada may join U.S.-led energy, environment security project
Canada may join a new, U.S.-led effort to gather and share intelligence about threats to energy and environmental security, a newly released document shows.
HTML | Published: 2008-11-02 | Added: 2009-02-22

Canada must share intelligence with torturers
The need to exchange information with unpalatable regimes is a significant and troubling aspect of the new reality.
HTML | Published: 2008-11-01 | Added: 2009-02-22

Canada carries out military exercises in Arctic
A record number of civilian agencies, including the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Canadian Border Services Agency, are also participating, Millar said.
HTML | Published: 2008-08-26 | Added: 2009-02-02

Ottawa chooses to ignore its own security watchdog
SIRC has told us that CSIS has committed such an infringement and both the government and CSIS have denied it. If nothing more happens, the public will simply have to do what it was not intended that it have to do: trust the government.
HTML | Published: 2008-07-10 | Added: 2008-07-12

Ottawa fought Khadr's transfer to Gitmo
Mr. Pardy suggests that DFAIT was even surprised to learn that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service - a much more active spy agency - would accompany Mr. Gould on his inaugural February, 2003, trip to Cuba.
HTML | Published: 2008-07-11 | Added: 2008-07-12

'Stand up' for Khadr's rights, lawyer urges Harper
Khadr exhibited "great mood swings" when a Canadian Foreign Affairs Department intelligence official and three members of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) visited him over four days in early 2003.
HTML | Published: 2008-07-10 | Added: 2008-07-12

Canada's secret documents on Khadr's treatment revealed
Jim Gould, a Foreign Affairs intelligence official, was involved in the interviews. DFAIT officials have argued the visit was less to do with intelligence gathering, and was instead more of a proxy consular visit to ascertain Mr. Khadr's condition.
HTML | Published: 2008-07-09 | Added: 2008-07-10

CBSA: Americans' personal guns account for vast majority of border seizures
"Most of the firearms seized by CBSA at the land ports of entry are the personal firearms of legitimate U.S. travellers who neglected - intentionally or not - to declare their personal firearms," says the agency's strategic intelligence analysis  [...]
HTML | Published: 2008-07-06 | Added: 2008-07-07

Intelligence soldiers in Afghanistan since start of mission: commander
Members of the unit, known as the Human Intelligence Company (HUMINT), are trained in collecting and analyzing information gathered from the wide variety of human contacts, or sources, they encounter on missions. "Clearly, we collect human  [...]
HTML | Published: 2008-05-26 | Added: 2008-07-06

Canada high court scolds spy agency in terror case
Canada's highest court scolded the country's spy agency CSIS for destroying evidence about Adil Charkaoui, a man fighting deportation over alleged terror links, in the government's second loss in a high-profile security case.
HTML | Published: 2008-06-26 | Added: 2008-07-04

CSIS wrong to destroy Charkoui evidence: top court
In its latest decision, the high court ruled that agents of CSIS violated Mr. Charkaoui's rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms when they destroyed a variety of evidence in his case, including interview notes.
HTML | Published: 2008-06-26 | Added: 2008-07-04

CSIS employee dies in murder-suicide
One of the two people found dead in what police think was a murder-suicide near Ottawa Saturday was an employee of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
HTML | Published: 2008-06-02 | Added: 2008-07-03

Evidence Prompts Extension of Arar Terror Probe, Official Says
The Department of Homeland Security's top investigator, citing new evidence, is extending his probe into the Bush administration's handling of a Canadian who said he was tortured after U.S. officials turned him over to his native Syria in 2002.
HTML | Published: 2008-06-05 | Added: 2008-07-03

Former CSIS employee killed by husband never feared him, family says
During the course of their 10-year relationship, Alicia Bateman's family never feared Ryan Sawchuk would hurt her. But last Saturday, the CSIS employee was killed by her ex-fiancé after she called off their wedding and ended their relationship.
HTML | Published: 2008-06-07 | Added: 2008-07-03

Hillier regrets intelligence breakdown
The Chief of Canada's Defence Staff says he regrets that intelligence services did not provide information that could have thwarted the well-organized prison break in Kandahar that freed hundreds of Taliban prisoners.
HTML | Published: 2008-06-17 | Added: 2008-07-03

Report: Canada's new military spy unit aims at overseas missions
Canada's military has newly set up a special intelligence unit to do spy work on overseas missions. The intelligence unit can also be tasked with recruiting and overseeing spy networks in foreign countries that are made up of local intelligence  [...]
HTML | Published: 2008-05-27 | Added: 2008-07-03

The necessity of HUMINT
It is absurd to demand a "debate" on whether a fighting force abroad should have a HUMINT apparatus; it would be exactly like debating whether it should carry ammunition.
HTML | Published: 2008-05-30 | Added: 2008-07-03

Listening in on the enemy: Canada's master eavesdroppers
From its headquarters near the Rideau River, the CSE operates a vast electronic eavesdropping system that works with allies in the United States, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand to analyze intelligence on foreign adversaries.
HTML | Published: 2006-04-15 | Added: 2008-07-01

Proposed army spy unit raises worry
Critics are raising concerns about a new unit of the Canadian Forces that is charged with collecting intelligence for overseas missions.
HTML | Published: 2008-05-27 | Added: 2008-07-01

Secretive Canadian spy agency to get $62-million HQ
The money will pay for construction of a new building in Ottawa for the Communications Security Establishment, the most secretive branch of Canada's intelligence community.
HTML | Published: 2008-05-22 | Added: 2008-07-01

Canada beefing up bomb task force
IEDs are considered such a threat that a group made up of a task force, intelligence officials, CSE, and the CF expeditionary and special operations commands, among others, meets every two weeks to review progress and deal with ongoing issues.
HTML | Published: 2008-05-19 | Added: 2008-06-30

Spies on guard for Hezbollah plots in Canada
The news report released yesterday said the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had been working with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency to investigate the chatter.
HTML | Published: 2008-06-20 | Added: 2008-06-20

Border guns for tourists
Internal reports from Canada Border Services Agency's Strategic Intelligence Analysis division record 662 seizures of machine guns, rifles, antique weapons, revolvers and pistols last year -- up from 509 in 2006.
HTML | Published: 2008-05-19 | Added: 2008-06-08

The 'spy' who loved him: Autumn gave up chance of joining Intelligence Service after meeting Peter
Autumn Kelly gave up the chance of becoming a spy after falling in love with Peter Phillips. Months before they met she had been vetted by CSIS in her native Canada and passed a first round of interviews after applying to be a counter-espionage  [...]
HTML | Published: 2008-05-18 | Added: 2008-06-08

Canada needs new breed of spycatchers
CSIS is undergoing a massive recruitment, having added 352 new people to its ranks since 2001. Nearly 15 per cent of the workforce at CSIS is new hires. The percentage will rise to close to 20 per cent by the end of the decade.
HTML | Published: 2008-05-08 | Added: 2008-05-17

Canada 'risk averse' on spies, ex-MI-6 head says
But he says a much broader rethinking is in order, as CSIS's relatively few foreign agents remain legally obliged to operate as passive receptacles of information as opposed to classic foreign operatives who actively gather intelligence.
HTML | Published: 2008-04-30 | Added: 2008-05-17

Canada's secret spy days are over: CSIS chief
As a consequence of the fight against global Islamic terrorism, an increasing number of open-court criminal prosecutions in Canada, the U.S. and Europe have, at their genesis, information collected by shadowy secret agents rather than police  [...]
HTML | Published: 2008-04-29 | Added: 2008-05-17

Canadian on no-fly list stuck in Sudan
CSIS in 2002 and 2003 also scrutinized his alleged ties to Ahmed Ressam, an Al Qaeda operative found guilty of trying to bomb the Los Angeles airport in 1999. The two had met at a mosque in Montreal, where Abdelrazik lived for 13 years.
HTML | Published: 2008-04-29 | Added: 2008-05-17

CSIS developing new model for understanding terrorist financing, documents show
Canada's spy agency has been forced to junk its approach to terrorist financing as clandestine groups both here and abroad learn to skirt the law-enforcement initiatives set up after Sept. 11, 2001.
HTML | Published: 2008-04-20 | Added: 2008-05-17

Homegrown intelligence gap
It says much about the sorry state of Canada's security intelligence infrastructure and the sometimes incestuous relationship between that powerful and largely anonymous apparatus and some compliant members of the media.
HTML | Published: 2008-04-17 | Added: 2008-05-17

RCMP has 843 active national security investigations
A surge in counter-terrorism investigations is stretching RCMP resources to the limit. The Mounties have 848 active national security investigations underway - a 780 per-cent increase since 9/11.
HTML | Published: 2008-05-07 | Added: 2008-05-17

Should we send our spies overseas?
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day has promised to either broaden CSIS's mandate to include espionage abroad, or, less likely, spin off a new foreign spy service.
HTML | Published: 2008-04-09 | Added: 2008-05-17

Doubts raised about accuracy of controversial book on JTF2 commandos
Doubts are being raised about the accuracy of an incendiary first-hand account of Canada's secretive Joint Task Force 2 commando unit, a book whose author was arrested on the eve of its launch last week.
HTML | Published: 2008-04-30 | Added: 2008-05-05

Ex-commando held on eve of book release
Denis Morisset doesn't think it's a coincidence he was arrested this week just before he was to unveil a book about his eight years of service in the elite Joint Task Force 2.
HTML | Published: 2008-05-01 | Added: 2008-05-03

Group demands action on case rebuking CSIS
Since CSIS does not have the power of arrest, SIRC said the intelligence service "arbitrarily detained" Jabarah when he was brought to Toronto in 2002.
HTML | Published: 2008-04-03 | Added: 2008-04-07

Cabinet minister says Canada terrorist target
Day also spoke of changes to CSIS and the legislation on creating a separate agency for foreign intelligence gathering, as well creation of an RCMP Reform Implementation Council.
HTML | Published: 2008-03-27 | Added: 2008-04-06

Canada's national security files discovered in bin
Canadian security officials have been left red-faced after the blueprints for an elite national security unit were found on a pile of rubbish in Ottawa. The blueprints were stamped with the markings of the Department of National Defence.
HTML | Published: 2008-03-21 | Added: 2008-04-06

The Media and National Security and Intelligence: Mutual Dependence, Mutual Distrust
For its first Ottawa program, the Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) is collaborating with CASIS to host a panel discussion featuring New York Times security and intelligence correspondent Tim Weiner.
HTML | Published: 2008-03-20 | Added: 2008-04-06

Top court tackles Gitmo
Canada sent agents from CSIS and an official with the intelligence division in the foreign affairs department to interrogate Khadr in the two years after his capture. The purpose of the visits was to collect intelligence.
HTML | Published: 2008-03-21 | Added: 2008-04-06

CSIS bolsters ranks, cites continuing threats from extremists and spies
Canada's intelligence agency hired 100 new spies last year and is moving ahead with plans to expand its Ottawa headquarters.
HTML | Published: 2008-03-13 | Added: 2008-03-30

India turns to Canada's spies to avert threat of espionage via BlackBerry
Canadian spies are set to help India's intelligence agencies to intercept BlackBerry messages to prevent the mobile e-mail service being shut down across the sub-continent.
HTML | Published: 2008-03-10 | Added: 2008-03-30

Special advocates for accused terrorists grapple with new national security regime
One big question is whether special advocates will still end up in a battle with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service over access to the evidence and whether it was properly obtained.
HTML | Published: 2008-03-10 | Added: 2008-03-30

Was Omar Khadr coerced?
A Canadian Foreign Affairs intelligence officer and an official of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service met with Mr. Khadr in 2003.
HTML | Published: 2008-03-14 | Added: 2008-03-30

Tainted Evidence
The Canadian government is no longer using evidence gained from CIA interrogations of a top Al Qaeda detainee who was waterboarded.
HTML | Published: 2008-03-05 | Added: 2008-03-09

Accused terrorist denies CSIS allegation he may have been planning airline attack
A Montreal man accused of terrorist ties displayed secretive and violent behaviour and once discussed comandeering a commercial aircraft for "aggressive ends," Canada's spy service alleges.
HTML | Published: 2008-02-23 | Added: 2008-02-24

Canadian intel frets over wiretap law
Justice Edmond Blanchard ruled he lacked jurisdiction to endorse foreign spying operations by CSIS, although he granted the agency rights to domestic wiretaps on the suspects.
HTML | Published: 2008-02-18 | Added: 2008-02-24

Court ruling highlights need to give CSIS more power, expert says
A court decision that stops CSIS from conducting an electronic surveillance operation overseas underlines the need to give Canada's spy agency a broader mandate for foreign operations.
HTML | Published: 2008-02-16 | Added: 2008-02-24

Judge denies CSIS bid to track terror suspects
Attempts by Canada's spy agency to be granted warrants to carry out overseas electronic intercepts against 10 individuals, including Canadians, have failed. CSIS officials have in recent years argued for greater autonomy in spying beyond Canada's  [...]
HTML | Published: 2008-02-15 | Added: 2008-02-24

New security certificates issued
Canadian security agencies, which describe themselves as “net importers” of intelligence from foreign agencies, complain that the information pipeline would be compromised if they divulge sensitive secrets passed along by others.
HTML | Published: 2008-02-22 | Added: 2008-02-24

Spying laws outdated, expert argues
So while the CSE routinely aims its ears outward to hear what foreigners have to say, it effectively blocks its ears whenever a Canadian enters a conversation.
HTML | Published: 2008-02-20 | Added: 2008-02-24

They abuse, we use: Are we creating a market for torture?
"I find that CSIS is concerned with human rights, but nevertheless uses information obtained by torture," Ms. Landry concluded in the public version of her report.
HTML | Published: 2008-02-16 | Added: 2008-02-24

CSIS uses torture information: spy watchdog
An investigation by the watchdog over the Canadian Security Intelligence Service concludes the spy agency "uses information obtained by torture" - perhaps its bluntest assessment of CSIS's intelligence-gathering practices to date.
HTML | Published: 2008-02-12 | Added: 2008-02-23

RCMP's secret files questioned
The so-called "exempt" data banks allow federal institutions, such as the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, to keep information off-limits from public scrutiny and from access-to-information requests.
HTML | Published: 2008-02-14 | Added: 2008-02-23

Rendition to Torture: The Case of Maher Arar
The facts of Mr. Arar's case are profoundly disturbing. Rather than kidnapping someone off the streets in one country and bringing him to another for interrogation, our Government took Mr. Arar into custody at JFK Airport, while on his way home to  [...]
PDF | Published: 2007-10-18 | Added: 2008-02-07

The Canadian Peril
Some Canadian authorities admit the vulnerabilities created by their laws and lax policies on matters like extradition. A June 2007 backgrounder on counterterrorism by CSIS concedes it, under the heading "Canada as a base for terrorist activities."
HTML | Published: 2008-02-03 | Added: 2008-02-03

Sudden appearance of CSIS file fuels Charkaoui claims of smear campaign
The sudden appearance of a damning CSIS report that paints alleged terrorist Adil Charkaoui as a jihadist insider is feeding claims by Charkaoui and his supporters of a smear campaign, while also raising questions about security at Canada's spy  [...]
HTML | Published: 2008-01-27 | Added: 2008-02-01

'Toronto 18' suspect has good point
Were these CSIS (later RCMP) agents simply passive informants? Or did they cross the line and provoke illegal acts? It would be useful to know. However the government, citing national security, is actively fighting disclosure of the CSIS links.
HTML | Published: 2008-01-31 | Added: 2008-02-01

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

FBI wants instant access to British identity data
Allies in the "war against terror" - the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand - have formed a working group, the International Information Consortium, to plan their strategy.
HTML | Published: 2008-01-15 | 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

Navy bomb experts sift through dust, death
With U.S. and British specialists, the Canadian divers are part of a forensic and intelligence-gathering unit called the Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell.
HTML | Published: 2008-01-14 | Added: 2008-01-27

U.S. wants U.K. to help set up int'l biometric security database
Sgt. Sylvie Tremblay, an RCMP spokeswoman, confirmed that Canada's national police force is working with the FBI on the proposal through the International Information Consortium.
HTML | Published: 2008-01-15 | Added: 2008-01-27

Canada Needs to Use Spies to Collect Foreign Intelligence
Unless the Canadian government begins using spies to collect foreign intelligence, Canada will continue to have to rely on its allies for intelligence that may be misleading or biased and is collected by them for their own reasons, not Canada's.
HTML | Published: 2007-12-12 | Added: 2008-01-26

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

Canadian Intelligence during the Cold War
I have just returned from Warsaw, where, among other things, I was conducting archival research at the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). I now have a number of files relating to Canada's so-called intelligence community during the Cold War.
HTML | Published: 2007-12-11 | 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

Part spy, part sniper: UAVs increasingly in use in war
This fall, the Canadian Forces announced plans to buy a new fleet of UAVs for various uses, including intelligence-gathering during the war in Afghanistan and conducting aerial patrols in the Arctic.
HTML | Published: 2008-01-04 | 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

Re: Canadian Intelligence during the Cold War
Canadian intelligence in the early Cold War years was compromised by the likes of Mackenzie King [Canadian PM] who wanted to turn Gouzenko back to the Russian Embassy the moment RCMP gave him sanctuary. King apologized to the Russians.
HTML | Published: 2007-12-12 | 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

Terrorist rhetoric is hate speech, Major says
Rudner also recommended the restructuring of Canada's intelligence-sharing agencies to ensure that critical information is appropriately circulated.
HTML | Published: 2007-12-11 | 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

CFIS - A Foreign Intelligence Service for Canada
Canada needs a Foreign Intelligence Service, CFIS, with a mandate similar to that given CSIS in the area of domestic or security intelligence.
PDF | Published: 2007-11-01 | 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

A Canadian Foreign Intelligence Service - A new necessity or an expensive frill?
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."
PDF | Published: 2006-05-16 | Added: 2007-12-18

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

Lévesque tracked by RCMP spies
RCMP spies eyed René Lévesque from his days as a globetrotting broadcaster in the1940s through his turbulent career as a pillar of the sovereignty movement and his ascension to Quebec premier in the 1970s.
HTML | Published: 2007-11-07 | Added: 2007-11-09

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

Prime Minister announces appointments to the Advisory Council on National Security
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced the appointment of seven new members to the 15-member Advisory Council on National Security (ACNS).
HTML | Published: 2007-11-01 | Added: 2007-11-03

SIRC releases 2006-2007 Annual Report
The Report summarizes - to the extent privacy and national security permit - nine reviews completed by SIRC in 2006-2007 as well as five decisions rendered in complaints cases.
HTML | Published: 2007-10-30 | 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

The spies who went out in the cold
Once Canada established weather and signal intelligence stations in the North, our government discovered that there was a great deal of Soviet radio traffic originating from the drift stations.
HTML | Published: 2007-10-28 | 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

A deadly silence
The public debate on Canada's security is hopelessly limited - we need to understand the threats we face. At a recent meeting in Calgary, an unusual gathering of intelligence officials, academics, students and citizens took part in an unusual  [...]
HTML | Published: 2007-10-06 | Added: 2007-10-21

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

Canadian military tackles Afghan intelligence woes
The Canadian armed forces are tackling a serious inability to quickly provide troops with military intelligence, a problem that has hampered the country's Afghan mission.
HTML | Published: 2007-09-07 | Added: 2007-10-03

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

Military intelligence can't keep up
The military command in charge of running the Afghanistan mission and all other overseas troop deployments is having difficulty providing the needed intelligence to support such operations.
HTML | Published: 2007-09-05 | 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

In intelligence work, foreign spies are kept under cover
The RCMP admitted for the first time that it worked with the CIA during the Maher Arar affair.
HTML | Published: 2007-08-10 | Added: 2007-08-14

34-year terrorist specialist allegedly misused classified information
A Toronto immigration intelligence officer has been fired for allegedly misusing classified government information. An internal investigation and audit have been launched into the alleged conflict of interest within the intelligence unit of CBSA.
HTML | Published: 2007-08-08 | Added: 2007-08-12

Judge orders release of Maher Arar information
A Federal Court judge has ordered the government to release portions of the Maher Arar report that were censored to the public.
HTML | Published: 2007-07-25 | Added: 2007-08-12

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

Mountie spies monitored John Lennon's peace festival plans: new documents
Spies from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police kept close watch on Beatle John Lennon's ill -starred plans for a massive peace festival near Toronto, newly declassified records show.
HTML | Published: 2007-07-22 | Added: 2007-08-02

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

Forces looking to fuse crucial military info
The Canadian Forces is looking to build a centre to house some of its new commands as well as a high-tech system that will allow senior officers to access as-it-happens video imagery and other information from combat zones such as Afghanistan.
HTML | Published: 2007-06-29 | 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

RCMP tightens intelligence standard
The RCMP is assuring Parliament that it has officially entered a post-Arar world. Senators asked a top Mountie whether dubious intelligence from Canada could ever again be used by the United States to deport a suspect to a third country to face  [...]
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

No-fly list comes into play
Anyone denied a boarding pass under the program will be able to apply to Transport Canada's Office of Reconsideration. Failing that, appeals can be made to SIRC, the RCMP Public Complaints Commission or the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
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

Spy agency's watchdog wants more info on wiretaps
CSE, Canada's ultra-secret electronic spy agency, is not providing sufficient information when it seeks government approval to eavesdrop on private telephone calls, says the agency's watchdog.
HTML | Published: 2007-06-13 | 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

Intelligence and National Security Cluster
The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs has added a new, seventh cluster to its program. The Intelligence and National Security will be available to students who are applying to the School for the 2007-2008 academic year.
HTML | Published: 2007-05-03 | Added: 2007-06-09

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

Psychologist
Experience in assessing personality and psychopathology.
HTML | Published: 2007-05-13 | 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

Intelligence experts warn Defence to act quickly on fixing screening process
There is always a possibility of a Canadian Forces penetration by foreign intelligence services or by terrorist organizations, which, these days, we simply cannot afford.
HTML | Published: 2007-04-12 | Added: 2007-05-03

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

Canadian Forces Patrol to Confirm Arctic Sovereignty
Both teams will end their patrols at Canadian Forces Station Alert, at the northern tip of Ellesmere Island. Alert is the world's most northerly permanently settled community and conducts signals intelligence gathering.
HTML | Published: 2007-03-22 | 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

China Analyst PM - 04
Experience in researching a wide range of primary sources of information on developments concerning China. Experience in preparing, presenting and effectively defending analyses on issues related to China, both orally and in writing.
HTML | Published: 2007-04-16 | Added: 2007-04-16

China Analyst PM - 05
Specialised experience in researching a wide range of primary sources of information on developments concerning China. Specialised experience in preparing, presenting and defending effectively oral and written analysis on issues related to China.
HTML | Published: 2007-04-16 | Added: 2007-04-16

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

Intelligence Operator
You will collect, process, analyze and provide military intelligence in support of operations, planning and decision-making at all levels of command within the CF and the Department of National Defence.
HTML | Published: 2007-03-03 | Added: 2007-03-03

Gathering Intelligence: The challenges of the Communications Security Establishment
The Communications Security Establishment mandate is to provide foreign intelligence in accordance with government priorities. We are very much focused on security issues, such as terrorism, nuclear proliferation and cyber threats.
HTML | Published: 2007-02-24 | Added: 2007-02-24

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

Fmr CIA official wants to give Arar case higher profile in U.S.
A former top CIA official wants to raise the profile of Maher Arar in the United States, where he hopes the story of Arar's deportation and torture will help end the American practice of extraordinary rendition.
HTML | Published: 2007-01-29 | Added: 2007-02-06

Canada to pay Arar $10.5 million
Canada apologized on Friday to software engineer Maher Arar, who was deported to Syria by U.S. agents after Canadian police mistakenly labeled him an Islamic extremist, and paid him $10.5 million in compensation.
HTML | Published: 2007-01-28 | Added: 2007-01-28

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

Démission du chef de la police fédérale canadienne suite à l'affaire Arar
Le chef de la police fédérale canadienne Giuliano Zaccardelli a été contraint à démissionner mercredi à cause de son rôle dans l'affaire d'un Canadien expulsé en Syrie par les Etats-Unis après avoir été suspecté à tort de liens avec le terrorisme.
HTML | Published: 2006-12-06 | Added: 2006-12-10

Mending the Mounties
Thirty years after the McDonald Commission, the RCMP finds itself at another crossroads. O'Connor points to a need for a more coherent connection between Canadian agencies when dealing with terrorism investigations.
HTML | Published: 2006-12-08 | Added: 2006-12-10

Mounties' top cop resigns
Zaccardelli testified he knew the RCMP was trying to correct the record with their US counterparts while Arar was being detained in Syria. But at a speech on Monday and at his second appearance at the committee Tuesday, he told a different version.
HTML | Published: 2006-12-06 | Added: 2006-12-10

RCMP head faces MPs' grilling over Arar affair
RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli, already under fire for the force's handling of the Maher Arar affair, will have more explaining to do when he faces yet another grilling by MPs.
HTML | Published: 2006-12-03 | Added: 2006-12-10

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

Elite troops quit for fat pay
Some of Canada's most elite and best-trained soldiers have abandoned the secretive Joint Task Force 2 unit for the promise of fat paycheques offered by private security firms working in Iraq and other hotspots, a top commander has confirmed.
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

Informatics Centre Network Manager at the Foreign Intelligence Division
Experience in working in a high security communications centre in a department or agency that is part of the Canadian intelligence community. Experience in maintaining equipment in high-end secure communications systems.
HTML | Published: 2006-11-22 | Added: 2006-11-22

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

Diplomat's wife gathered intelligence for Canada in Soviet Union
Janice Cowan spent several years in the Soviet Union as a Canadian spy while the Cold War peaked and the superpower splintered into different nations.
HTML | Published: 2006-11-13 | Added: 2006-11-13

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

Nothing is secret
Although the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) never talks about its operations publicly, Leitrim - a Canadian Forces base - is long believed to have monitored Russian submarine and shipping activities in the Arctic.
HTML | Published: 2006-10-29 | 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

Arar demands apology, wants disciplinary action
Maher Arar said he wants to see disciplinary steps taken against the RCMP agents who played a role in his deportation to a Syrian torture chamber.
HTML | Published: 2006-10-05 | Added: 2006-10-05

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

Arar inquiry blasts RCMP for triggering deportation, torture
False information given to American authorities by an inexperienced RCMP anti-terrorism team, which tagged Maher Arar as an Islamic extremist, very likely set off a chain of events that led to his deportation and torture in Syria.
HTML | Published: 2006-09-18 | Added: 2006-10-02

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

Keeping tabs on the world of terrorism
Martin Rudner heads to the tiny book-filled, box-stacked office where he serves as director of the Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies and as professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs.
HTML | Published: 2006-09-11 | 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

RCMP faulted; Arar cleared
In the first of two reports, O'Connor loads the RCMP with almost all blame for Arar's misery. It wrongly identified him as an Islamic extremist, fingered him to the U.S., and then slowed Foreign Affairs efforts to rescue him from a filthy Syrian  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-09-19 | 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

Airport screeners may focus on passenger behaviour
The federal agency that searches airline passengers and carry-on luggage for potentially dangerous articles is now looking at scrutinizing people's actions more closely.
HTML | Published: 2006-09-03 | Added: 2006-09-25

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

Canada and Peru unite intelligence in fight against terrorism
FINTRAC has entered into an agreement with its counterpart agency in Peru for the sharing of financial intelligence on suspected money laundering and terrorist activity financing and the protection of personal information.
HTML | Published: 2006-08-29 | Added: 2006-08-30

Elite troops get more pay to stay
Special forces units ranging from Canada's Joint Task Force 2 to the British Special Air Service are hiking pay in an effort to stem the flow of skilled personnel to private military firms.
HTML | Published: 2006-08-26 | 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

Organized crime reach extending into remote and rural Canada, report says
Nearly 800 organized crime groups now operate in the country, up from 600 several years ago, with a makeup as diverse as the country's cultural mosaic, RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli said.
HTML | Published: 2006-08-19 | Added: 2006-08-20

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

Canadian army to deploy tiny, unmanned aircraft in southern Afghanistan
As the conflict in Afghanistan has escalated, so too has the army's dependence on unmanned aircraft for intelligence gathering. Weighing less than 5 kilograms and able to fold into a backpack, the reconnaissance drone will be deployed next month.
HTML | Published: 2006-08-03 | Added: 2006-08-07

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

Toronto to be home of top intelligence group
Ottawa is spending $5 million over five years to make Toronto the permanent headquarters of an organization made up of 101 financial intelligence units around the world.
HTML | Published: 2006-07-08 | 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

Ottawa to put $650M into spy gear upgrades
The upgrade will allow the continued exchange of sensitive information between allies and will better protect such data from prying eyes. The Canadian Forces and the Department of National Defence operate about 80% of the equipment to be modernized.
HTML | Published: 2006-07-05 | 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

Seventeen Arrested on Anti-Terrorism Charges
On Friday, June 2, 2006, members of the RCMP and partners of the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team arrested 17 individuals who took steps to acquire three tonnes of ammonium nitrate and other components necessary to create explosive  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-06-03 | 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

Inside Canadian Intelligence
For the first time in history, a concise exposé of every government organization in the Canadian national security sector is available to the general public.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-10 | Added: 2006-06-10

Plans for oversight under fire
Creating a committee of MPs and senators to oversee Canada's national security agencies would be a waste of time if it is attached to the Prime Minister's Office, says Liberal Colin Kenny, who chairs the Senate's national security committee.
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

Canadian newspaper says Royal Canadian Mounted Police supplied ammonium nitrate in terror sting
The group acquired three tons of ammonium nitrate from undercover Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers in a sting operation, the Toronto Star has reported. The fertilizer can be mixed with fuel oil or other ingredients to make a bomb.
HTML | Published: 2006-06-07 | Added: 2006-06-07

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

BCIT Launches Crime and Intelligence Analysis Program; New Bachelor of Technology Option is the First in Canada
The new option, Crime and Intelligence Analysis (CIA), is the first of its kind in Canada and seeks to meet increasing demand for crime and intelligence analysts in the fields of law enforcement, business and security.
HTML | Published: 2006-04-27 | Added: 2006-05-17

Canadian UAV Proving Useful Against Taliban
The machine is useful for immobilizing the Taliban as it also transmits data to intelligence-gathering agents, can carry out reconnaissance, and give precise coordinates of a target.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-12 | 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

Our phone calls not being tracked, spy agency says
Canada's electronic spy agency says citizens need not worry their phone calls are secretly being tracked by the government. Although the CSE is allowed to intercept telephone calls involving Canadians, it can only do so under very specific  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-05-13 | 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

Big planes mean big security headaches
According to several Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) intelligence reports, high-capacity planes running complicated routes are making it easier for dangerous people to sneak into the country illegally.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-08 | Added: 2006-05-08

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

Military downsizes Arctic spy outpost
The military plans to replace half of its personnel with contract workers at Canadian Forces Station Alert, a secretive spying outpost at the top of the world, by November.
HTML | Published: 2006-05-05 | 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

A Glimpse Inside the Spy Scandal That Rocked Ottawa
Drawing on interviews, Russian sources and newly released archival material, Amy Knight provides the most complete account to date of an event that shook western governments, provoked gross violations of civil liberties and helped spark the Cold  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-04-23 | Added: 2006-04-25

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

Canadian Politicians Travel to Haiti on Eve of Elections
The United Nations MINUSTAH forces include at least 100 RCMP, of which at least five are devoted to intelligence gathering and surveillance.
HTML | Published: 2006-04-22 | Added: 2006-04-23

In book, Morin defends his role as informant
Claude Morin defends his honour and describes why he collaborated with Canadian secret service agents in the 1970s, attacking those he said "falsely" extrapolated from his encounters an attempt to sabotage the Parti Québécois.
HTML | Published: 2006-04-03 | Added: 2006-04-20

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

Police raid Montreal offices of Tamil group
The Tamil Tigers have been collecting money in Canada since the 1980s, primarily through front organizations, according to intelligence reports. Police and intelligence reports have referred to the World Tamil Movement as a "front organization."
HTML | Published: 2006-04-17 | Added: 2006-04-18

Security, intelligence community held accountable
Canada's national security and intelligence community is indeed accountable under law and serves to protect all of our civil liberties against the avowed adversaries.
HTML | Published: 2006-04-04 | 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

We need answers on domestic spying
While the CSE used to be restricted to spying on communications outside of Canada, the new act allows it to spy on domestic communication, as long as it involves someone outside of Canada.
HTML | Published: 2006-03-31 | Added: 2006-04-18

Where do the Conservatives stand on national security?
The back pages of the Conservative Party's election platform included the creation of a foreign intelligence service, the establishment of a national security commissioner and the launching of a judicial inquiry into the 20-year-old Air-India  [...]
HTML | Published: 2006-03-28 | Added: 2006-04-18

Intelligence Analyst
Significant experience in criminal or security intelligence analysis. Intermediate experience in research, analysis and reporting of national security threats.
HTML | Published: 2006-04-11 | Added: 2006-04-11

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

Canada's air force to establish first all pilotless formation in Afghanistan
An entire flight of Sperwer tactical uninhabited aerial vehicles will soon be fully operational for reconnaissance missions over the windswept desert and craggy mountains passes in the vicinity of Kandahar.
HTML | Published: 2006-03-18 | Added: 2006-03-20

Plane that ferried Arar to Middle East prison touches down in Canada
The mysterious American jet that set Maher Arar en route to a grim Syrian prison visited Canada this week, prompting new questions about landings by aircraft linked to U.S. intelligence.
HTML | Published: 2006-03-15 | Added: 2006-03-17

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

Foreign Affairs, International Trade and CIDA: One Big Happy Family, Maybe
The departments of Foreign Affairs and International Trade have been reunited, or in the government's own words,
HTML | Published: 2006-02-08 | Added: 2006-02-18

Security Intelligence Advisor
Experience in researching and writing discussion papers on strategic policy issues and their implications for the security and intelligence community, and presenting options to senior officials.
HTML | Published: 2006-02-08 | Added: 2006-02-08

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

Canadian Forces Counter-Intelligence
DND and the CF are committed to ensure that, to the extent possible, all threats to the security of DND or the CF, in Canada or during foreign deployments, by hostile intelligence services, organizations or individuals involved in espionage, sabotage,  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-03-28 | Added: 2006-01-28

Canadian Forces National Counter-Intelligence Program
CI investigations are designed to identify and exploit information regarding the extent and nature of threats to the security of DND and the CF, which may include special or sensitive debriefing initiatives.
LINK | Published: 2003-03-28 | Added: 2006-01-28

Canadian Forces Security Intelligence Liaison Program
If a clearly defined threat to the security of DND and the CF is established, the CFNCIU conducts liaison with police and security intelligence agencies under the auspices of the Security Intelligence Liaison Program to identify the nature of such  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-03-28 | Added: 2006-01-28

Unit Portrait: The Canadian Forces National Counter-Intelligence Unit
Stood up in 1997, CFNCIU comprises mostly Military Police personnel. Its function is to identify and counter threats to the security of DND/CF property and personnel that may arise from activities such as espionage and sabotage.
LINK | Published: 2002-02-06 | Added: 2006-01-28

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

Spies, Lies and a Commission: A Case Study in the Mobilization of the Canadian Civil Liberties Movement
The commission embarked on one of the most thorough abuses of individual rights ever conducted in Canada and was armed with extensive powers to determine the extent of the Soviet spy ring in Canada revealed by the defection of Igor Gouzenko.
PDF | Published: 2001-09-01 | Added: 2006-01-22

The Royal Commission on Espionage
Detailed history of the Royal Commission on Espionage (Canada,1946) and useful links and information on the first generation rights movement in Canada (1930s to 1950s).
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2006-01-22

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

Russia entrusted with Canada's top satellite secrets
One of Canada's most sophisticated satellites, designed to keep watch over the country's coasts and the Arctic, will now be launched by a Russian rocket instead of an American one. "This is a post-New Year's gift to Russian military intelligence."
HTML | Published: 2006-01-18 | 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

How do we keep Big Beaver at bay?
The stark reality is that Canada took the lead, post-9/11, in extending to the CSE the authority to intercept the communications of Canadians without a warrant.
HTML | Published: 2005-12-22 | Added: 2006-01-14

Stand up for Security
A Conservative government will expand the Canadian Foreign Intelligence Agency to effectively gather intelligence overseas, independently counter threats before they reach Canada, and increase allied intelligence operations.
HTML | Published: 2006-01-05 | Added: 2006-01-14

The Story of Maher Arar: Unfolding US-Canada Police State
The following is a chronology of events as told by Maher Arar, beginning with his arrival at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on September 26, 2002, and ending with his October 5, 2003 release from Syrian prison.
HTML | Published: 2005-12-29 | Added: 2006-01-14

Canada also allows spying on citizens
There was pathetically little attention paid when the federal government moved unilaterally four years ago to lift the ban on the CSE to intercept the e-mail and cellphone traffic of persons living in Canada.
HTML | Published: 2005-12-20 | Added: 2005-12-22

Listening In
ECHELON is a net that snags from the millions of phone, fax, and modem signals traversing the globe selected communications of interest to a five-nation intelligence alliance made of American, British, Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand agencies.
HTML | Published: 1998-08-18 | Added: 2005-12-22

Ottawa can eavesdrop on Canadians under law
Canada's anti-terrorism law opened the door to secret eavesdropping on Canadians and others inside Canada, the same kind of activity that is causing a furor in the United States, intelligence and legal experts say.
HTML | Published: 2005-12-19 | Added: 2005-12-22

Canadian commando seriously hurt in Afghanistan firefight
One member of the Ottawa-based Joint Task Force 2 is in hospital while two other members from the unit who were injured have returned to duty. It is thought to be the first time a JTF2 soldier has been injured in combat.
HTML | Published: 2005-12-08 | Added: 2005-12-17

3 Canadian special forces troops wounded in Afghan operations
Three Canadian special forces soldiers have been wounded on operations in southern Afghanistan, the first known casualties within the highly secretive Joint Task Force 2 in the troubled southeast Asian country.
HTML | Published: 2005-12-07 | Added: 2005-12-14

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

Investigator, Preventative Security & Intelligence, XO3
Reporting to the Manager of the Preventative Security and Intelligence Unit, the incumbent is responsible for the collection, evaluation, analysis and distribution of preventive security intelligence information for the Corrections Division; conducts  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-11-30 | Added: 2005-11-30

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

Canada Introduces Eavesdropping Bill
Canada's Liberal government introduced a bill that would allow police and intelligence officials to demand personal information about telephone and Internet subscribers, including name, address, telephone or cell phone number, or IP address.
HTML | Published: 2005-11-15 | Added: 2005-11-22

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

RCMP open to idea of police watchdog
RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli told the Maher Arar inquiry he is now
HTML | Published: 2005-11-18 | 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

Canada urged to investigate its alleged role in torture
The United Nations Human Rights Committee noted that Canada is holding a public inquiry into the case of Maher Arar to determine whether the RCMP or any other federal agencies were involved in his deportation from the US to Syria, where he was  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-11-03 | Added: 2005-11-06

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

Who is Abdullah Almalki?
Syrian-born Canadian Abdullah Almalki, of Ottawa, was at the centre of an RCMP national security investigation that cast suspicion on Maher Arar. Like Mr. Arar, Mr. Almalki was tortured in a Syrian jail. He believes Canadian officials were  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-10-30 | Added: 2005-11-01

Affaire Arar: la Syrie sommée d'enquêter
Le ministre des Affaires étrangères du Canada demande à la Syrie d'enquêter sur l'affaire Maher Arar. L'enquêteur Stephen Toope estime que le citoyen canadien y a bel et bien été torturé pendant une longue période.
HTML | Published: 2005-10-27 | Added: 2005-10-28

Fact-finder concludes Arar was tortured in Syria
In a report released Thursday, a fact-finder appointed by the Arar Commission concludes that Ottawa engineer Maher Arar was tortured while detained in Syrian custody three years ago.
HTML | Published: 2005-10-27 | Added: 2005-10-28

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

Bomb found in van at border
Windsor police have launched a criminal investigation into the discovery of an apparent homemade bomb under the hood of a van driven by a Canada Border Services Agency intelligence officer.
HTML | Published: 2005-10-22 | Added: 2005-10-24

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

RCMP's public complaints commission gets new boss
Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan has appointed Paul Kennedy, until recently a senior bureaucrat in the Justice Department, to head the RCMP's public complaints commission.
HTML | Published: 2005-10-22 | Added: 2005-10-24

Communications researcher - military
Communicator Research Operators serve in all three Environmental Commands (Army, Navy and Air) and they use a wide variety of sophisticated electronic equipment to intercept and analyze electronic transmissions, including foreign communications.
HTML | Published: 2005-10-20 | Added: 2005-10-20

Monitor says Mounties block oversight
The director of the complaints commission for Canada`s national police says the force has been using national security to avoid scrutiny.
HTML | Published: 2005-10-02 | Added: 2005-10-06

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

Arar report to be delayed until next March
A public report on the Maher Arar affair will be delayed until next March, largely because of haggling over how much of the evidence ought to remain secret on national security grounds.
HTML | Published: 2005-09-15 | Added: 2005-09-19

Senior appointments for the Canadian Forces
Captain (Navy) Andrea Siew, a Reservist, will be promoted Commodore AWSE (Acting While So Employed) and appointed Director General Military Signals Intelligence at the Communications Security Establishment.
HTML | Published: 2005-09-14 | Added: 2005-09-19

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

Canadian spies secretly studied Soviet movies
Canadian spies secretly analyzed Soviet movies during the Cold War in the hope of gleaning useful intelligence. A little-known Ottawa agency played the role of film critic in what may have been a unique intelligence-gathering project among its  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-08-14 | Added: 2005-08-17

Intelligence Analyst - Western Hemisphere
Support for the Canadian intelligence community, through coordination of inter-departmental assessment activities in support of the Intelligence Assessment Committee (IAC) and through coordination with allied intelligence assessment agencies.
HTML | Published: 2005-08-17 | Added: 2005-08-17

Marine Intelligence Analyst
Represents Transport Canada within the regional Marine Security Operations Centre (MSOC) intelligence department providing detailed marine transportation security analysis and production of intelligence and specialized advice of the maritime environment  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-08-12 | Added: 2005-08-12

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

Letter from USCIB to CRC allegedly finalizing the CANUSA Agreement
This declassified letter from the Chairman of the U.S. Communications Intelligence Board to the Chairman of the Communications Research Committee (Canadian SIGINT policy), dated 29 June 1949, may be the actual document that finalized the CANUSA  [...]
JPG | Published: 2005-06-29 | Added: 2005-08-07

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

Ottawa aware of torture in Syria, probe told
Franco Pillarella opened the door for RCMP officers to meet with a Syrian intelligence officer, believed to be General Hassan Khalil, to help them in their investigation of Mr. El-Maati.
HTML | Published: 2005-07-30 | Added: 2005-07-31

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

Czar is a non-starter
Taking a break from the backyard grills of the nation, Harper announced that a Conservative government would create the office of a commissioner of national security to co-ordinate Canada's security agencies.
HTML | Published: 2005-07-20 | Added: 2005-07-28

Tories would create security czar post
Canada needs an arm's-length security czar to fend off terrorist threats. The commissioner would draw on resources of police and intelligence agencies to develop "overarching" plans to strengthen and better integrate Canada's security network.
HTML | Published: 2005-07-20 | Added: 2005-07-28

Canada's JTF-2 to hunt al Qaeda in Afghanistan
It is the first time that the Government confirms that members of Joint Task Force 2 -- Canada's elite and secretive commando unit -- will be involved in combat missions against al Qaeda supporters and remnants of the former Taliban regime.
HTML | Published: 2005-07-15 | Added: 2005-07-16

Senior Intelligence Analyst
Extensive experience in researching, analyzing and synthesizing information on international security and defence issues. Extensive experience in providing strategic advice and analysis to decision-makers and senior management.
HTML | Published: 2005-07-11 | Added: 2005-07-11

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

RCMP shared intelligence with Syria, Arar inquiry told
RCMP Supt. Mike Cabana who headed up the investigation in the Ottawa area said Canadian officials were concerned Arar was being abused early in his captivity in Syria, but they exchanged intelligence anyway.
HTML | Published: 2005-06-30 | Added: 2005-07-02

Senior Investigator
Security investigation and security intelligence services involving criminal allegations/incidents and breaches of federal and departmental security regulations and policies; personal security and emergency response services for the manager and senior  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-06-29 | Added: 2005-06-29

Ex-Manitoba premier named to security committee
Prime Minister Paul Martin has named former Manitoba premier Gary Filmon head of the Security Intelligence Review Committee, a watchdog panel for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
HTML | Published: 2005-06-24 | Added: 2005-06-27

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

Expanded electronic snooping agency assumes prominent anti-terror role
Undergoing its biggest expansion in decades, the clandestine Communications Security Establishment, a wing of the Defence Department that snoops on foreign conversations and messages, has made its primary mission the countering of dangerous  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-06-12 | Added: 2005-06-13

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

Roundup was routine
Jurors listening to a transcript of evidence from a Canadian intelligence officer who was serving with UN peacekeepers in Yugoslavia in 1995 heard that UN military observers passed information about the warring groups to intelligence officers.
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

Prime Minister announces the appointment of his National Security Advisor
Prime Minister Paul Martin announced the appointment of William J.S. Elliott as his National Security Advisor.
LINK | Published: 2005-04-07 | Added: 2005-06-01

Canada Plans To Improve Light Infantry Units
Improving the capability of the light infantry by creating Tier 2 forces will give the JTF2 the added muscle it needs. The Army also plans to spend around $630 million on its intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance project.
HTML | Published: 2005-05-23 | Added: 2005-05-26

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

Camp X Historical Society
The Society's primary mandate is conducting research for the purpose of documenting the Camp's history, the conservation of artifacts, and community education.
LINK | Published: 2002-01-01 | Added: 2005-05-21

Lux Ex Umbra
Canadian signals intelligence blog aimed at collecting, compiling, analysing, and discussing publicly available information about the Communications Security Establishment and SIGINT activities in general.
LINK | Published: 2005-05-04 | Added: 2005-05-21

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

Prime Minister announces changes in the senior ranks of the Public Service
John L. Adams becomes Associate Deputy Minister of National Defence, where his role will be to serve as Chief of the Communications Security Establishment, effective July 1, 2005.
LINK | Published: 2005-05-18 | Added: 2005-05-21

A former Saudi Prince Turki bodyguard sues Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and describes bizarre private spy ring
Evidence indicates that a high ranking Canadian diplomat was involved as a middleman in a bizarre inner-family Saudi spy ring and a possible assassination attempt on a Saudi princess for financial gain.
PDF | Published: 2005-05-15 | Added: 2005-05-20

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.
HTML | Published: 2005-05-15 | Added: 2005-05-17

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

Deputy Prime Minister releases progress report on implementation of National Security Policy
Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Anne McLellan today tabled in Parliament Securing an Open Society: One Year Later, a progress report on the implementation of the National Security Policy.
HTML | Published: 2005-05-11 | 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

Securing an Open Society: One Year Later
This report describes progress in implementing a number of initiatives identified in the National Security Policy, as well as several other national security enhancements.
PDF | Published: 2005-04-01 | Added: 2005-05-12

Expert warns 'culture of secrecy' may block truth about Arar case
A government-sponsored "culture of secrecy" surrounding the Arar inquiry has become so pervasive that it may block the truth about Maher Arar's yearlong detention in Syria from ever becoming public.
HTML | Published: 2005-05-04 | Added: 2005-05-05

Human-smugglers prefer Canada, study finds
Almost 12 per cent of people who arrived in Canada without proper documents during a six-year period were directly linked to a smuggler or escort, a federal intelligence study reveals.
HTML | Published: 2005-05-01 | Added: 2005-05-03

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

A defence plan likely to withstand any attack
A special operations group will expand Canada's commando unit, JTF2, and give it its own tactical helicopter, amphibious sea transport, intelligence, logistics and other support elements.
HTML | Published: 2005-04-21 | Added: 2005-04-24

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

Government of Canada Announces CBRN Strategy
The aim of the Government of Canada's CBRN Strategy is to protect Canada and Canadians by taking all possible measures to prevent, mitigate and respond effectively to a CBRN terrorist incident.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-31 | Added: 2005-04-24

MPS May Oversee CSIS
Veteran Ontario Liberal MP Derek Lee has strongly hinted that Prime Minister Paul Martin will follow through on a 15-month-old promise to create a parliamentary committee to oversee the country's security and intelligence services.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-31 | Added: 2005-04-24

New York Times Confirms Maher Arar's Account of Rendition from the United States
A front page story in the New York Times today reported the discovery of flight records which corroborate the story of Canadian citizen Maher Arar.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-30 | 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

JTF2 soldier missing since 2003 surfaces in Thailand
An explosives expert with Canada's elite commando JTF2 unit who disappeared after a two-week leave in August 2003 is now in military custody in Canada after showing up in Thailand; questions remain about what he did while he was missing.
HTML | Published: 2005-04-15 | Added: 2005-04-17

CSIS admits sharing info
Canada's spy agency admits it shared information it obtained from a Canadian teen being held as an enemy combatant at Guantanamo Bay with American intelligence services.
HTML | Published: 2005-04-09 | Added: 2005-04-10

Investigational Support Analyst
Providing operational support to the regular members of the Interpol operations unit; researching and analyzing information and intelligence from a multitude of information systems; receiving, evaluating and responding to requests for international  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-04-07 | Added: 2005-04-07

Parliament needs access to classified info: AG
A day after exposing "serious weaknesses" in Canada's air-transport safety and passport system, Auditor General Sheila Fraser told Canada AM that Parliament needs better access to important classified security information.
HTML | Published: 2005-04-06 | Added: 2005-04-07

Security and intelligence activities pose a new challenge for Parliament
The Auditor General suggests that Parliament needs to find a way to receive reports containing classified information from security and intelligence agencies and from organizations like SIRC and the Office of the Auditor General.
HTML | Published: 2005-04-05 | Added: 2005-04-06

Deputy Prime Minister Details Proposed Model for National Security Committee of Parliamentarians
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness the Honourable Anne McLellan tabled in Parliament details of a proposed National Security Committee of Parliamentarians.
HTML | Published: 2005-04-04 | Added: 2005-04-05

CSIS ill-prepared in Air-India crisis
Ill-equipped, ill-prepared and looking for the wrong target. In 1985, Canada's fledgling security agency — the Canadian Security Intelligence Service — was preoccupied with sniffing out Soviet spies and rooting out subversion.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-18 | Added: 2005-03-28

Le SCRS intimiderait les personnes fournissant les cautions de détenus
Le Service canadien du renseignement de sécurité intimiderait délibérément les gens qui offrent de verser les cautions de personnes soupçonnées de constituer une menace à la sécurité nationale.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-15 | Added: 2005-03-28

U.S. laments lack of information from Canada on suspected terrorist dealings
Canadian laws are dogging efforts to catch terrorists and other criminals trying to sneak large sums of money across the U.S. border, a new report says. The laws hamper the flow of information "that may be critical" to terrorist-financing  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-03-16 | Added: 2005-03-28

After 20 years, Air-India families despair of justice
The Air-India bombing also showed how difficult it can be for Canadian police and intelligence agents to penetrate close-knit communities.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-21 | Added: 2005-03-21

Criminal Intelligence Analyst
Provide expert advice on complex issues, assess intelligence and provide strategic analysis focused on national, and international criminal activities for the entire Canadian criminal intelligence community.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-21 | Added: 2005-03-21

CSIS agents intimidating bail-sureties for security detainees, lawyer says
Canada's intelligence service is deliberately intimidating people who offer to put up bail for those the government deems a risk to national security, a Federal Court heard.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-15 | Added: 2005-03-21

Military intelligence warns that avian flu could be used as weapon: report
The military's intelligence arm has warned the federal government that avian influenza could be used as a weapon of bioterrorism, a heavily censored report suggests.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-10 | Added: 2005-03-10

Building terror-watch system slow work, CSIS chief says
The federal government is having difficulty determining the criteria for who should be considered a security risk and pulled out of line before boarding a plane, the new director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-08 | Added: 2005-03-09

Canadian intelligence still considering LTTE ban in Canada
The Canadian intelligence agency yesterday said it is considering whether to recommend that the LTTE be banned as a terrorist group in Canada.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-08 | Added: 2005-03-09

CSIS chief links immigrant to Al Qaeda
A Canadian landed immigrant is a key commander affiliated with Al Qaeda in Iraq, and the ranks of trained terrorist fighters in Iraq are bolstered by individuals from around the world, including from Europe and Canada.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-08 | Added: 2005-03-09

CSIS eyes mosques suspected in terror
Canada's spy agency is monitoring certain mosques in the country that it suspects are raising funds for terrorist activities and recruiting terrorist sympathizers, a senior CSIS official says.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-08 | Added: 2005-03-09

RCMP: Scrutiny could put them at risk
In a submission to the Maher Arar inquiry, the RCMP expresses serious reservations about the federal government's plan to more closely monitor security and intelligence activities of the force.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-02 | Added: 2005-03-04

Mountie secrets hinder rights monitor
Canada needs a brand-new watchdog powerful enough to make the Mounties and spy agencies answerable to the public. In the wake of the Maher Arar affair, action must be taken to compel co-operation from investigators in national security cases.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-02 | Added: 2005-03-03

Arar Inquiry To Cost $23-million
Investigating the Maher Arar affair is costing Canadian taxpayers more than $23-million. That's the price tag government officials are attaching to the public inquiry into the case.
HTML | Published: 2005-03-01 | Added: 2005-03-01

CSIS keeps Concordia grad from Harvard
Kaabour, a Concordia University graduate and Lebanese-born Muslim, might not be able to attend the screening of his film. He hasn't received security clearance from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in his application for permanent  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-02-27 | Added: 2005-03-01

Terrorist suspect set up by CSIS?
A suspected terrorist suggested yesterday he's being set up by Canadian intelligence agents working behind the scenes with Moroccan authorities.
HTML | Published: 2005-02-23 | Added: 2005-02-26

CSIS says Khadr Guantanamo grilling necessary
Canada's spy agency argues it needs to be able to interrogate a Canadian teenager held as an enemy combatant by American authorities at Guantanamo Bay as part of its fight against terrorism, documents show.
HTML | Published: 2005-02-21 | Added: 2005-02-25

Wary spy watchdog to closely eye secret CSIS missions overseas
CSIS Inspector General Eva Plunkett has quietly advised Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan she'll be keeping a close eye on clandestine CSIS activities abroad to ensure the intelligence service doesn't cross legal lines.
HTML | Published: 2005-02-21 | Added: 2005-02-25

CSIS watchdog hampered by delays
The federal watchdog over the Canadian Security Intelligence Service warns her effectiveness could be hindered by the spy agency's delays in handing over crucial information.
HTML | Published: 2005-02-20 | Added: 2005-02-24

McLellan defends reach, scope of anti-terror law
Canada's anti-terror law needs only "fine-tuning" because it strikes "the right balance" between protecting national security and civil liberties, says Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan.
HTML | Published: 2005-02-15 | Added: 2005-02-16

Canada's JTF2 captives vanish at Guantanamo
Individuals captured in Afghanistan by Canadian special forces were transported to the controversial U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, but American officials have been reluctant to provide the government with information on what has happened to the  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-02-14 | Added: 2005-02-15

Review Officer
Experience in providing advice, preparing briefing materials and in making oral presentations directly related to security intelligence or foreign intelligence.
HTML | Published: 2005-02-08 | Added: 2005-02-09

Spend more on spies, soldiers, Cellucci urges
The U.S. would like Canada to beef up its elite JTF2 special forces and would also like Canada's security agencies, such as the ultra-secret Communications Security Establishment, to help collect and interpret intelligence for its allies.
HTML | Published: 2005-02-04 | Added: 2005-02-07

Very private aspects of the Arar public inquiry
Last month when O'Connor attempted to release his first summary, of evidence given privately by CSIS witnesses, government lawyers demanded the document be censored first.
HTML | Published: 2005-01-29 | Added: 2005-01-31

In Canada spies are us
Sidewinder was a controversial report put together by a small but hard-working team of RCMP and CSIS officials that sounded the first alarm bells that China is one of the greatest ongoing threats to Canada's national security and Canadian industry.
HTML | Published: 2005-01-26 | Added: 2005-01-29

Arar lawsuit threatens national security: U.S.
The U.S. government filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Maher Arar, claiming information released on his deportation would threaten national security.
HTML | Published: 2005-01-23 | Added: 2005-01-26

Overarching intelligence committee urged in report
The federal government should establish a permanent, U.S.-style investigative committee to oversee all Canadian intelligence gathering, and that of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in particular, a soon-to-be-released parliamentary report  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-01-13 | Added: 2005-01-19

Privy Council Office - Analyst
Support for senior government decision makers, including the Prime Minister, Ministers and officials of PCO, FAC and other departments, through policy-neutral assessments of foreign political, economic, strategic and security issues concerning Iraq and  [...]
HTML | Published: 2005-01-19 | Added: 2005-01-19

Secret data-sharing network to be developed to deal with crises
The network would build on existing systems to allow agencies to trade briefs about terrorist and criminal threats, and would prove particularly useful for the "quick and secure transfer of data" during an actual catastrophe.
HTML | Published: 2005-01-13 | Added: 2005-01-19

Lawyers contend CSIS killed evidence
Lawyers for alleged terrorist Adil Charkaoui moved yesterday to have the case against him dropped, saying Canada's spy agency tainted the evidence by destroying notes from two interviews with him.
HTML | Published: 2005-01-12 | Added: 2005-01-17

Chinese spies infiltrate high-tech sector
In its annual report to Parliament, CSIS warns that foreign spies are seeking to acquire "Canada's scientific and technological developments, critical economic and information infrastructure, military and other classified information.
HTML | Published: 2004-12-29 | Added: 2004-12-29

Parliamentary Review of The Anti-Terrorism Act
One safeguard is the requirement for the Parliament of Canada to begin a review of both the provisions and the operation of the legislation within three years after its having received Royal Assent.
HTML | Published: 2004-12-14 | Added: 2004-12-29

Ottawa lashed over Arar secrets
The federal government was slammed Monday for blocking the release of new details on the role of Canada's spy service in the deportation of Maher Arar, including information that could help to clear the name of the Ottawa-based engineer.
HTML | Published: 2004-12-21 | Added: 2004-12-23

Le gouvernement fédéral envisage d'augmenter le nombre d'espions
Le gouvernement fédéral envisage d'augmenter le nombre d'espions qui oeuvrent à l'extérieur du pays.
TEXT | Published: 2004-12-20 | Added: 2004-12-21

Role of CSIS could expand, McLellan says
The federal government is considering changes to its spy agency's role in the world with an eye toward giving it wider powers in collecting overseas intelligence.
HTML | Published: 2004-12-20 | Added: 2004-12-21

Canada needs more spies abroad, McLellan says
McLellan told Sun Media that she and Prime Minister Paul Martin believe Canada should be collecting more intelligence overseas to defend itself from potential terrorist threats.
HTML | Published: 2004-12-19 | Added: 2004-12-20

Canada short on spies
While not convinced of the need for a separate spy agency to operate overseas, McLellan said she and Prime Minister Paul Martin agree there's a pressing need for Canada to collect more foreign intelligence.
HTML | Published: 2004-12-19 | Added: 2004-12-20

Police track children of mobsters
A secret cross-Canada intelligence project concludes the offspring of some key mobsters are waiting in the wings, will add modern innovations to traditional criminal schemes and will be harder to arrest because of the lessons learned by their  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-12-16 | Added: 2004-12-17

A question of balance
The government has refashioned the mandate of the RCMP and returned it to a central place on the national security stage, despite its long, inglorious record in intelligence gathering, without new oversight measures.
HTML | Published: 2004-12-11 | Added: 2004-12-15

Crime Infiltration Could Lead to Major Losses for Canada
In a secret report released in July, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service warned that eastern European crime groups might try to smuggle conflict diamonds into the country and offer them as Canadian mined stones.
TEXT | Published: 2004-12-13 | Added: 2004-12-15

Criminal influence could cost diamond trade millions: RCMP
The classified report details the findings of Project Shimmer, an effort by the RCMP's criminal intelligence directorate to assess the vulnerabilities of the diamond trade.
HTML | Published: 2004-12-15 | Added: 2004-12-15

Officials frustratedby secrecy in Arar probe
Officials at the Arar commission spoke out about their growing disappointment and frustration with the federal government, which has moved to block the release of intelligence information that could shed light on how Maher Arar ended up jailed in  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-12-15 | Added: 2004-12-15

CSIS selects facts to match its theories, Harkat hearing told
The federal court case against Mohamed Harkat heard from a surprise witness Monday who accused the Canadian spy agency of routinely ignoring intelligence information, only accepting information that supports a preconceived argument.
HTML | Published: 2004-12-07 | Added: 2004-12-12

Government lax in response to security threats: report
Intelligence agencies still do not have enough staff and scope to thwart threats to the security of Canadians and Canada's allies. The Canadian intelligence community is understaffed for the post 9/11 security environment. It needs more people.
HTML | Published: 2004-12-08 | Added: 2004-12-12

Spy agency investigates Libyan interest in WMDs
The latest report of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan says the activities of "certain foreign governments, such as Iran, Libya and Syria," came under scrutiny of the agency's counter-proliferation  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-12-05 | Added: 2004-12-12

Canada May Seal Details of Arar Torture
The circumstances surrounding the treatment of Maher Arar is the subject of a federal commission of inquiry that since the summer has been held in closed-door hearings, where Canadian security and intelligence officials have been secretly  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-12-02 | Added: 2004-12-09

Why CSIS agents couldn't chase their tails
Canada's spy agency could not pick out radical Sikh priest Talwinder Singh Parmar from a group of similarly dressed Sikhs months after the agency fingered the activist as a man worth watching.
HTML | Published: 2004-11-29 | Added: 2004-12-07

Mounties left in dark by U.S. on deportation of Syrian-born Canadian
The Mounties provided information on Maher Arar to American authorities but were left in the dark when the U.S. deported the Canadian citizen to Syria.
HTML | Published: 2004-11-28 | Added: 2004-12-04

Canada on alert for Bush visit
The Sun story quoted unnamed airport officials as saying that the alert resulted from increased "intelligence chatter" and that the bulletin ordered immigration agents to "refer all holders of Saudi passports for further inspection."
HTML | Published: 2004-11-23 | Added: 2004-11-28

Government of Canada Introduces Legislation to Establish the Canada Border Services Agency
The CBSA brings together key border security and intelligence functions previously carried out by three Government of Canada organizations.
HTML | Published: 2004-11-23 | Added: 2004-11-28

RCMP Criminal Intelligence Analyst
The position is responsible for: collecting, researching, evaluating and analyzing intelligence information to identify criminal trends and patterns and to develop analytical intelligence products; preparing reports identifying or illustrating criminal  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-11-28 | Added: 2004-11-28

Canada called a terror target
A new Canadian intelligence report says terrorists might attack Canada in retaliation for the arrests of suspected Al-Qa'ida associates who are being deported for reasons of national security.
HTML | Published: 2004-11-22 | Added: 2004-11-23

Le Canada dans la mire d'Al-Qaïda
Selon le Centre intégré d'évaluation de la sécurité nationale (CIESN), les efforts du Canada pour expulser de présumés membres d'Al-Qaïda pourraient entraîner une réponse violente du groupe terroriste.
HTML | Published: 2004-11-22 | Added: 2004-11-23

Senior bureaucrat named head of CSIS
Prime Minister Paul Martin named a new director of the country's spy agency yesterday as concerns over possible terrorist strikes continue to haunt the Canadian and U.S. governments.
HTML | Published: 2004-11-17 | Added: 2004-11-20

CSIS spy-warrant requests meet with little opposition, documents reveal
Records show that Federal Court judges almost never disagree with CSIS agents who ask for permission to take extraordinary steps so they can discover more about suspected terrorists or foreign spies.
HTML | Published: 2004-11-15 | Added: 2004-11-16

Instructor
Experience in strategic imagery exploitation in support of Intelligence operations.
HTML | Published: 2004-11-16 | Added: 2004-11-16

La traque des terroristes passe par le Pôle Nord
Dans la capitale canadienne, les hauts responsables de la Défense n'aiment guerre évoquer l'intérêt de cette petite base qui est partie intégrante du NORAD, l'organisation chargée de défendre l'espace aérien de l'Amérique du Nord.
TEXT | Published: 2004-11-13 | Added: 2004-11-13

Arar freed after appeal from Chrétien
Newly obtained documents shed light on how Maher Arar was freed from Syria only after direct communications between former prime minister Jean Chrétien and the President of Syria.
HTML | Published: 2004-11-10 | Added: 2004-11-11

Ben Laden possède-t-il des armes nucléaires?
Un rapport préparé par le Centre intégré d'évaluation de la sécurité nationale, une agence fédérale installée dans les locaux du SRCS, porte le titre: «Al-Qaeda possédant les mallettes nucléaires russes: fiction ou réalité?».
HTML | Published: 2004-11-03 | Added: 2004-11-04

Bin Laden wants nukes: Canadian intelligence
Canadian spies have been pondering one of the more chilling questions of the post-9/11 era: Does Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida have briefcase-sized nuclear weapons?
HTML | Published: 2004-11-03 | Added: 2004-11-04

Judge assailed at Zundel hearing
CSIS alleges that Mr. Zundel has advised and encouraged about 25 figures on the far right who espouse violence -- including a U.S. writer whose book was found among the possessions of Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh.
HTML | Published: 2004-11-03 | Added: 2004-11-04

Canadian Spy Agency Warns of Al-Qaeda Terror Threat, Post Says
Canada's spy agency is warning that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups may stage attacks in the country as the federal government prepares to review expanded anti-terrorism laws.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-29 | Added: 2004-11-01

There's no safety in these numbers
This week it was announced that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) - which is responsible for customs and border security - would also be subject to the 5% cuts.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-30 | Added: 2004-11-01

Harkat denies al-Qaeda links
CSIS watched Harkat for 5 years before his arrest. CSIS says he supports al-Qaeda, Afghan, Pakistani and Chechen extremists. CSIS says that Abu Zubaydah, one of bin Laden's lieutenants, identified Harkat as the operator of a guest house in Pakistan.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-27 | Added: 2004-10-29

Une agence fédérale peu connue intercepte les communications privées de Canadiens à leur insu
Une loi pour lutter contre le terrorisme permet aux tribunaux de laisser au CST le soin d'enregistrer toutes les conservations téléphoniques de Canadiens à destination de certains pays. Sept pays sont visés depuis l'an dernier.
TEXT | Published: 2004-10-26 | Added: 2004-10-29

Alleged Canadian al-Qaeda 'sleeper' agent set to testify
CSIS says Abu Zubaydah, a senior al-Qaeda member, helped train Harkat in Afghanistan. CSIS thinks Harkat was sent to Canada as a "sleeper" agent, meaning an operative prepared to carry out attacks who does not become active until a later date.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-25 | Added: 2004-10-28

Canada and the United States strengthen partnerships to tackle cross-border crime
Canada and U.S. law enforcement intelligence officers from Integrated Border Enforcement Teams (IBETs) will now be co-located at two locations in Canada and two locations in the United States to share intelligence on a daily basis.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-22 | Added: 2004-10-24

Top job at CSIS about to be filled
Now secretary of the quietly powerful federal Treasury Board, Jim Judd is everyone's first choice for a post that bears the weight of national security and Ottawa's pivotal relationship with Washington.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-23 | Added: 2004-10-24

Un réseau Al-Canada?
Les agents du SCRS connaissaient bien Ressam. «Nous l'avions à l'oeil, mais c'était évident qu'il n'était pas un personnage important», disait un ancien officier du Service du renseignement.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-10 | Added: 2004-10-24

Watchdog wants transcripts of refugee interviews
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service should make transcripts of the interviews it conducts with refugee claimants to prevent future conflicts, says SIRC, the watchdog over the spy agency.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-21 | Added: 2004-10-24

Canadian's death in Chechnya still not confirmed
Investigators for the Canadian Security Intelligence Services have visited the Abubaker and Elbahja families, as well as Tagiev's former employer, Visa Connection.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-20 | Added: 2004-10-22

CASIS Conference Sparks Debate
Addressing delegates on Oct. 14 at one of the opening sessions of the CASIS conference, Mr. Wark said the government was duty-bound three years ago to put more resources and brain power behind its national security agenda.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-20 | Added: 2004-10-22

Six facing charges after CSIS protest
Six people face charges after staging a sit-in at the lobby of the Toronto offices of CSIS. The group, sponsored by the Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada, was protesting the detention of five Muslim men.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-21 | Added: 2004-10-22

U.S. ambassador seeks closer security relationship with Canada
Working together with the RCMP and CSIS and other law-enforcement and intelligence agencies here in Canada is quite critical to the protection of the people in the United States, the ambassador said, and also to the protection of the people of  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-10-21 | Added: 2004-10-22

Averting our own 9/11
Speaking on Thursday at the opening of the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Security and Intelligence Studies, Robert Wright quite correctly stated that it is "absurd" to believe that terrorist attacks could not happen on our own  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-10-16 | Added: 2004-10-19

Canada pressed over Qaeda suspect
After four days of interrogation by agents of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Jabarah was transferred to the United States in April 2002 and is still in custody.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-15 | Added: 2004-10-19

Canadians' ties with Chechen insurgents probed
CSIS and other intelligence services are to trying to piece together whether Canadians are joining insurgents fighting against Russia, after several Canadian men have turned up dead, captured or missing in Chechnya or Azerbaijan.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-16 | Added: 2004-10-19

CSIS probes case of B.C. man killed in Chechnya
Canada's spy agency is investigating the mysterious death of a Vancouver man in the mountains of Chechnya and seeking information about the fate of two of his friends.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-17 | Added: 2004-10-19

Dangers for Canada are real
The Prime Minister's national security advisor told a major security and intelligence conference yesterday it would be
TEXT | Published: 2004-10-15 | Added: 2004-10-19

Experts push for security review
The federal government and the public should be engaged in the very debates conducted at the conference concerning methods of intelligence gathering and Canada's role in international operations.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-17 | Added: 2004-10-19

G8 protesters face travel ban
Security experts and intelligence officers from the eight countries represented at the summit are to meet at a secret location in Scotland early next year to draw up a list of troublemakers.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-17 | Added: 2004-10-19

Task force to study threat of cyber strike
A national task force will be set up to bolster Canada's defences against cyber-attacks by terrorists, a key security official has announced. Communications Security Establishment chief Keith Coulter made the announcement yesterday.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-16 | Added: 2004-10-19

Advisory Council on National Security
Official site of the Advisory Council on National Security.
LINK | Published: 2004-09-30 | Added: 2004-10-11

Legislation to establish Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness introduced
Today, in the House of Commons, legislation was introduced to establish the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-08 | Added: 2004-10-11

Media Advisory for the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies
The Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies is holding its 2004 international conference October 14-16 in Ottawa at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
HTML | Published: 2004-09-27 | Added: 2004-10-11

We don't need subs, expert says
Many argue that submarines are effective intelligence-gatherers, particularly when crammed full of the latest electronic gear and parked in a strategically vital spot to collect intelligence or monitor movement in a region of interest to Canada.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-08 | Added: 2004-10-11

The HMCS Chicoutimi, Canada's rebaptized British submarine
The Canadian navy has hailed the stealth and silence of the 70-meter (230-foot), 2,150-tonne submarine, saying it is difficult to detect and useful for conducting surveillance and intelligence-gathering.
HTML | Published: 2004-10-05 | Added: 2004-10-08

Government of Canada Invites Applications for Advisory Council on National Security
The membership of the Council will reflect a diversity of individuals, expertise and experience; and include demonstrated expertise relevant to national security issues among the following areas: intelligence, law and policy, human rights and civil  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-09-29 | Added: 2004-09-30

A gaffe waiting to happen
Less than a year after Ottawa responded to the attacks on New York and Washington with omnibus legislation, the RCMP improperly leaked information about a Canadian citizen to U.S. officials who shipped him to a country known to use torture to get  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-09-28 | Added: 2004-09-29

Canadian intelligence used by U.S. officials in Arar's deportation hearing
Information the RCMP passed to U.S. officials in sloppy fashion was used in a hearing that resulted in Ottawa engineer Maher Arar's deportation to Syria, where he was imprisoned for months as a terrorism suspect.
HTML | Published: 2004-09-25 | Added: 2004-09-27

RCMP admits rules broken in Arar case
A censored report, tabled during in-camera proceedings inquiry examining the case of Mr. Arar, acknowledges that the force broke its own rules by giving information to U.S. intelligence officials without always insisting on strict conditions for its  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-09-24 | Added: 2004-09-25

Why Did American Airlines 587 Crash?
But now comes a wisp of evidence to suggest that AA 587's demise was in fact not an accident but an operation carried out by Al-Qaeda: it is recounted in a top secret CSIS report written in May 2002.
HTML | Published: 2004-08-30 | Added: 2004-09-24

Canadians in Asia face terror risk
The report, Islamic Extremism in Southeast Asia, was completed in April by Canada's national security assessment centre, a federal body based in Ottawa that includes representatives of various intelligence agencies, including CSIS.
HTML | Published: 2004-08-26 | Added: 2004-09-22

Judge lauds 'novel' evidence in Air India trial
The documents included Canadian Security Intelligence Service surveillance reports of suspected bombing mastermind Talwinder Singh Parmar in the months before two bombs killed 331 people on June 23, 1985.
HTML | Published: 2004-08-24 | Added: 2004-09-22

CSIS intercepted Zundel's mail, ex-agent says
Canadian Security Intelligence Service officials intercepted Ernst Zundel's mail and used commercial flights to send packages they were worried could have contained bombs to Ottawa for analysis, a former CSIS agent testified yesterday.
HTML | Published: 2004-09-17 | Added: 2004-09-20

Les confessions forcées de Maher Arar ont été transmises par l'ambassadeur
Le Service canadien du renseignement de sécurité (SCRS) a pu obtenir la transcription des confessions qu'a faites l'ingénieur d'Ottawa Maher Arar pendant sa détention en Syrie grâce à l'ambassadeur du Canada à Damas.
HTML | Published: 2004-09-13 | Added: 2004-09-20

Arar inquiry set to hear secret evidence; family has concerns about witnesses
The Maher Arar inquiry is set to go behind closed doors to examine the role Canada's spy service may have played in the Ottawa man's deportation and imprisonment.
HTML | Published: 2004-09-08 | Added: 2004-09-17

Canadian ambassador passed Syrian intelligence report on Arar to CSIS
During a verbal briefing by Syrian military intelligence officials, Pillarella requested "a written report" on the Arar investigation, a copy of which was translated to English from Arabic and subsequently forwarded to CSIS.
HTML | Published: 2004-09-17 | Added: 2004-09-17

Report clears CSIS in Arar deportation
But in a heavily censored report, the watchdog also criticizes CSIS for not being careful enough about how it passes intelligence on to the Mounties, especially ones chatting with U.S. law-enforcement agencies.
HTML | Published: 2004-09-14 | Added: 2004-09-17

The Arar Commission releases a new version of the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC) report on the Arar case
At the public hearing held in Ottawa on June 23, 2004, Lead Commission Counsel Paul Cavalluzzo showed the report which had all 89 pages blacked-out. The version released today is still 70% redacted.
HTML | Published: 2004-09-13 | Added: 2004-09-17

Zundel subpoenas former CSIS operative
They intend to question him about allegations that CSIS was aware that Mr. Zundel was the target of a bomb plot in the 1980s, but that the agency purposely failed to warn him.
HTML | Published: 2004-09-15 | Added: 2004-09-17

Nineteen years after the tragedy, historic Air India trial enters final stage
Bagri's team also won a key ruling that the controversial erasure by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service of hundreds of intercepted phone calls by alleged conspirators violated his Charter rights.
HTML | Published: 2004-09-07 | Added: 2004-09-16

EU's Quantum Leap
There may be more incentive to secure communication in an age of trans-Atlantic acrimony. The United States' Echelon also coordinates with intelligence agencies in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
TEXT | Published: 2004-09-01 | Added: 2004-09-15

Mahjoub faces hearing on deportation Tuesday
Mahjoub has been detained since June 2000, when he was accused of being involved with the Vanguards of Conquest. He is one of five Canadians taken into custody by CSIS under a security certificate and tried on secret evidence.
HTML | Published: 2004-09-06 | Added: 2004-09-15

Suspicion of CSIS and RCMP evidence
In an opening submission to the Maher Arar inquiry, the Law Union of Ontario has asked that all material offered by CSIS and the RCMP be viewed with “...a healthy dose of suspicion”.
HTML | Published: 2004-09-15 | Added: 2004-09-15

Canada draws up no-fly list
Canada is compiling a no-fly list to keep potential terrorists off domestic flights. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service will compile the list, which Transport Canada has assured the airline industry will be small.
HTML | Published: 2004-09-03 | Added: 2004-09-04

Asian-based crime threatens Canada: report
The 2004 annual report was published by the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC). It says Asian-based organized crime (AOC) has a presence all over Canada, and that groups are currently active in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and the Toronto  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-08-21 | Added: 2004-08-30

Important Canadian Forces UAV Trial
During the last week of August, the Canadian Forces will conduct a major experiment on Baffin Island and in the Atlantic region involving uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs) and integrated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR)  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-08-19 | Added: 2004-08-30

MDA expects $3M in defence orders for satellite data
The Vancouver-area company holds the exclusive international marketing rights to data from Radarsat-1, a Canadian developed satellite used to monitor environmental change, map natural resources, detect targets and for other intelligence surveying.
HTML | Published: 2004-08-30 | Added: 2004-08-30

Organized crime growing in Canada: report
The 2004 annual report was produced by the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada and released in Vancouver by RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli and Toronto Police Chief Julian Fantino.
HTML | Published: 2004-08-20 | Added: 2004-08-30

RCMP Says Canada to Become Magnet for Smuggled People
Canada may become a significant destination for smuggled people because of a looming shortage of low-wage workers, the Vancouver Sun reported, citing an intelligence study by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
HTML | Published: 2004-08-23 | Added: 2004-08-30

Montreal man downed U.S. Plane, CSIS told
Canadian Security Intelligence Service agents were told during five days of interviews with the source that Abderraouf Jdey, a Canadian citizen also known as Farouk the Tunisian, had downed the plane with explosives on Nov. 12, 2001.
TEXT | Published: 2004-08-27 | Added: 2004-08-27

Anti-terror allies set to mount biggest exercise
London will be the centre for the British part of the exercise, which will also test transatlantic liaison on intelligence and coordinated reaction to attacks in large cities.
TEXT | Published: 2004-08-23 | Added: 2004-08-23

'A lot' of Canadians in al-Qaeda track between words
Mr. Jaballah is an Egyptian being detained by Canadian authorities following his arrest in Toronto. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) alleges he is a member of the Al Jihad terrorist group.
HTML | Published: 2004-08-17 | Added: 2004-08-19

Nos espions canadiens démasqués
La Division du renseignement, une branche ultrasecrète de la Défense, a contourné une série de règles pour donner des contrats à des proches et des amis.
HTML | Published: 2004-08-17 | Added: 2004-08-19

Parliament may become spy watchdog
An unprecedented unofficial committee of senators and MPs is travelling the globe in an inquiry that could dramatically increase Parliament's ability to act as a watchdog over spying and domestic operations by Canada's security intelligence  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-08-18 | Added: 2004-08-19

Forces to test unmanned patrol craft
Unmanned aircraft will be launched from Newfoundland this month as the Canadian Forces and other groups hold trials for vehicles meant to eventually increase maritime security.
HTML | Published: 2004-08-15 | Added: 2004-08-17

Agencies with Security and Intelligence Roles (2004)
2004 chart of Canadian agencies with security and intelligence roles.
PDF | Published: 2004-06-14 | Added: 2004-08-16

CSIS mole defends work with white supremacists
Mr. Bristow's comments mark the first time he has publicly discussed his controversial role as an undercover operative for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service since being exposed in the press 10 years ago.
HTML | Published: 2004-08-11 | Added: 2004-08-16

Hackers a growing threat to security, CSIS warns
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Canada'a central security agency, has issued a warning against global terrorism, citing hackers and crackers who penetrate secure computer systems as a growing threat.
HTML | Published: 1999-08-27 | Added: 2004-08-14

CSIS mole breaks silence
Grant Bristow, who infiltrated the white supremacist movement as a paid informant for Canada's spy service, has broken his long silence, saying he took on the unsavoury task because it was
HTML | Published: 2004-08-11 | Added: 2004-08-13

YTV launches high-tech reality show for youngsters
Spy Academy: it's not a school, it's a TV show, set to premiere on YTV next month. Each Saturday, black-clad youngsters race against the clock to complete a mission that's not quite impossible and win a cool prize.
HTML | Published: 2004-08-12 | Added: 2004-08-12

2,000 troops head home from Kabul
As the main contingent leaves the country, another 700 Canadian troops are arriving to provide reconnaissance and intelligence support for the entire NATO group.
HTML | Published: 2004-08-06 | Added: 2004-08-09

Ex-CSIS chief named deputy defence minister
Ward Elcock, who led the country's spy agency for a decade, has been named the top bureaucrat in the Defence Department.
HTML | Published: 2004-08-05 | Added: 2004-08-09

Mounties, CSIS agents grilled over Arar leak
In the internal probes, questions were put to members of the RCMP, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Foreign Affairs and the Solicitor General's Department (since renamed Public Safety) in response to Privy Council Office requests.
HTML | Published: 2004-08-01 | Added: 2004-08-03

Arar probe evidence to be screened
After O'Connor has privately heard the testimony from RCMP and CSIS and reviewed the government's claims for confidentiality in private hearings slated to begin Sept. 13, he will rule on what can be released.
HTML | Published: 2004-07-30 | Added: 2004-07-31

Organized crime boom prompts immigration rejections
An internal government memo, prepared by the Immigration Department's intelligence branch, reveals that more than 800 people with ties to organized crime were booted out of Canada or denied entry to the country during a recent three-year period.
HTML | Published: 2004-07-29 | Added: 2004-07-29

Opening statement of the Attorney General of Canada to the Commission of Inquiry Into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar
The statement addresses the nature of Commissioner O'Connor's inquiry, offer some general observations on the actions of Canadian officials in relation to Maher Arar, and identify some of the unique challenges the Commissioner will face.
LINK | Published: 2004-07-23 | Added: 2004-07-26

'Assassin' beats CSIS in court
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) said it had corroborated reports that Mr. Sogi was a trained explosives and weapons expert who was planning to assassinate Prakash Singh Badal, Chief Minister of Punjab, and his son Sikhbir Singh  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-07-24 | Added: 2004-07-24

Canada needs to heed findings of 9/11 report, victims' families say
Ms. Basnicki, a 24-year-old student at Ryerson University in Toronto, said she would like to see the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service work more closely together to prevent terrorist attacks on Canadian soil.
HTML | Published: 2004-07-23 | Added: 2004-07-24

Stanley Ho's house of cards
Ho by then was named or listed in several Canadian intelligence databanks including the National Security Register of CSIS and a RCMP document called the Asian Organized Crime Roster has him listed as Triad leader.
HTML | Published: 2004-07-22 | Added: 2004-07-24

Canada must use its spies
Now that CSIS is faced with serious terrorism, "The service is increasingly engaged in covert foreign operations." This involves recruiting of foreign sources, sending Canadian-cultivated agents abroad and meeting sources in third countries.
HTML | Published: 2004-07-20 | Added: 2004-07-22

Canadian Industry Faces Threat From Organised Crime
According to a CSIS report, eastern European crime groups could jeopardize the North's emerging diamond industry by slipping foreign stones tainted through bloody conflicts onto the market.
HTML | Published: 2004-07-19 | Added: 2004-07-22

Cdn. pot supply in U.S. overstated: RCMP report
According to an annual assessment of the drug situation conducted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Criminal Intelligence Directorate, only a small fraction of pot sold in America has crossed the border from Canada.
HTML | Published: 2004-07-20 | Added: 2004-07-22

Guerrillas claim links to Canada
"The MEK has also evolved into a form of cult, strongly devoted to its chief, [Massoud] Rajavi," says a CSIS report, adding, "The MEK's 29-year record of behaviour does not substantiate its capability or intention to be democratic."
HTML | Published: 2004-07-19 | Added: 2004-07-22

Mounties cast wide security net
RCMP Deputy Commissioner Garry Loeppky testified how officers with the Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams are able to share information without approval from supervising authorities, but do so only after careful consideration.
TEXT | Published: 2004-07-01 | Added: 2004-07-22

Syria rejects request to assist Arar inquiry
McIsaac admitted yesterday the government had made a mistake in blacking out every page of a Security Intelligence Review Committee report on the actions of CSIS officials in the Arar case. A new public report is being prepared.
TEXT | Published: 2004-07-06 | Added: 2004-07-22

Hackers breached Defence Department computers: report on security lapses
Determined computer hackers broke through federal firewalls several times last year, gaining access to Defence Department networks. Several of the documents released by Defence were prepared by the Communications Security Establishment.
HTML | Published: 2004-07-15 | Added: 2004-07-15

Canada open to polio terror
Bioterrorists using commercially available technology and materials could, with relative ease, make a synthesized version of the polio virus. "There are concerns that terrorists can now create viruses," says a military intelligence assessment.
HTML | Published: 2004-07-11 | Added: 2004-07-14

Non-Canadian Rough Might Slip Into Country Agency Warns
A Canadian Intelligence agency has warned in a secret report that eastern European crime groups might try to smuggle rough diamonds into the country and offer them as Canadian mined stones.
TEXT | Published: 2004-07-11 | Added: 2004-07-14

RCMP broke own rule in passing Arar intelligence to U.S., says internal probe
The RCMP broke one of its own policies when passing some information to U.S. officials about Ottawa resident Maher Arar, an internal probe by the Mounties reveals.
HTML | Published: 2004-07-08 | Added: 2004-07-14

National security is on trial in the Arar inquiry
On trial is Canadian national security in a post-Sept. 11 world. We haven't had such a scene for a quarter of a century, not since the McDonald Commission raised the lid on the RCMP Security Service's secret practices.
HTML | Published: 2004-07-05 | Added: 2004-07-12

Ottawa pressed to make Arar files public
Leaks and media reports have established that RCMP officers were investigating the possibility of an al-Qaeda cell in Ottawa, that these Mounties became suspicious of Mr. Arar before the U.S. sent him to Syria.
HTML | Published: 2004-07-05 | Added: 2004-07-12

Intelligence Analyst - Space Systems
The Department of National Defence and the Director General, Operational Research are presently recruiting a defence scientist (DS) to work in the Directorate of Strategic Intelligence, as a Space Systems intelligence analyst.
HTML | Published: 2004-07-04 | Added: 2004-07-04

Les soldats qui protègent certaines ambassades devraient être décorés
Les membres des forces spéciales en Afghanistan reçoivent tous les bénéfices d'un soldat envoyé en mission de combat, incluant décorations et honneurs militaires.
TEXT | Published: 2004-06-27 | Added: 2004-06-28

Canada's role in Arar's ordeal
As Ward Elcock, who recently completed 10 years at the helm of CSIS, the civilian spy agency, explained, he was obliged to check out any tips about threats to Canada, whether received directly from countries that use torture or from intermediaries.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-26 | Added: 2004-06-27

Canadian Terror: A Tragedy Of Ignorance
Canadian intelligence services are using the logic of power, whereas, in democratic Canada, people would prefer an argument based on the power of logic and facts.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-26 | Added: 2004-06-27

Arar inquiry told Canada may deal with nations that use torture
The former director of Canada's intelligence agency admitted Monday that Canada might have information-sharing relationships with other agencies in countries that engage in torture.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-22 | Added: 2004-06-25

Canada court upholds terror law
Canada's Supreme Court has ruled that people can be forced to testify in cases related to national security. It is the first test of the country's new anti-terrorism laws, passed in the wake of the attacks on the United States in 2001.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-24 | Added: 2004-06-25

Canadian spies deal with countries suspected of torture: former CSIS chief
The former head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says the agency deals with foreign spy services suspected of using torture.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-21 | Added: 2004-06-25

Harper could be called before Arar inquiry
Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper could be called as a witness at the inquiry into the deportation of Maher Arar to Syria. Harper revealed Tuesday evening that he had received a secret briefing on Arar's case.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-23 | Added: 2004-06-25

Security watchdog censors Arar report
A report with all 89 pages blacked out is what the federal government has released to the public concerning the involvement of Canadian intelligence officials in the deportation and detention of a Canadian citizen.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-24 | Added: 2004-06-25

Supreme Court rules witness can be forced to testify in terror hearings
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that reluctant witnesses can be forced to testify in hearings in the fight against terrorism. In a 6-3 ruling Wednesday, the high court said the hearings do not contravene the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-23 | Added: 2004-06-25

L'ex-chef savait que les États-Unis extradaient des suspects
L'ancien directeur du Service canadien du renseignement de sécurité a admis qu'il était au courant de la pratique controversée des Américains consistant à envoyer des suspects d'actes terroristes à l'étranger, pour interrogatoire.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-22 | Added: 2004-06-22

Arar for dummies
The Maher Arar controversy has raised many troubling questions, and a federal public inquiry led by Ontario's associate chief justice will begin to root out answers.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-19 | Added: 2004-06-21

Arar inquiry asks for Syrian, U.S. co-operation
Syria, Jordan and the United States are being asked by the Maher Arar inquiry to help determine what happened to the Ottawa man.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-18 | Added: 2004-06-21

Arar inquiry hears from former CSIS boss
The former head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said in testimony on the inquiry's first day that the spy agency is subject to stringent reviews, perhaps the toughest of any such organization in the world.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-21 | Added: 2004-06-21

Fewer refugees seeking asylum inside Canada
That gap was widest in January and February, when claims were down by nearly 40%, according to a recent intelligence digest prepared by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
HTML | Published: 2004-06-18 | Added: 2004-06-21

Former CSIS boss to lead oil-for-food probe
Reid Morden, the former head of Canada's spy agency will lead an investigation into the billions of dollars allegedly skimmed from the United Nations' oil-for-food program in Iraq.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-16 | Added: 2004-06-21

Russia warns Canada is a target of terrorists
Russian government officials have warned Canada's top spy about possible terrorist threats to Canadian troops now serving in Afghanistan. Trubnikov, who is also Moscow's former chief of intelligence, offered Elcock his country's latest intelligence.
HTML | Published: 2004-05-18 | Added: 2004-06-14

Canadian spy plane crashes in Kabul
One of Canada's unmanned spy planes crashed Saturday, damaging the remote-controlled aircraft so badly it will likely have to be returned to its manufacturers in France for repair.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-12 | Added: 2004-06-13

Al Qaeda WMD attack 'feasible,' Cdn report warns
Al Qaeda may have acquired weapons of mass destruction and the possibility of terrorists using them to strike within Canada "cannot be ruled out," according to a Canadian intelligence report.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-08 | Added: 2004-06-12

Al-Qaeda WMD attack in Canada possible: report
The Al-Qaeda network may have acquired weapons of mass destruction and the possibility of terrorists using them to strike within Canada cannot be ruled out, according to a Canadian intelligence report.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-08 | Added: 2004-06-12

CSIS went to Syria for confession: Arar rep
Agents from Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada's spy agency, secretly visited Syria in late 2002 and obtained copies of Maher Arar's confessions under torture, according to Arar's lawyers.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-12 | Added: 2004-06-12

Global force to 'patrol' chatrooms
The Virtual Global Taskforce, which includes the NCS, the FBI, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Australian Federal Police, and Interpol, will nominate officers to monitor the net round the clock.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-10 | Added: 2004-06-12

Intelligence Officer (Anticipatory Staffing)
Provides intelligence analysis on operational, tactical and strategic enforcement issues within the national office. Produces intelligence analysis from the operational, tactical and strategic information obtained from regional intelligence  [...]
TEXT | Published: 2004-05-27 | Added: 2004-06-12

Le Canada, refuge pour les terroristes
Le directeur du SCRS, Ward Elcock, estime que le Canada représente un refuge sûr pour les terroristes qui veulent mener des opérations à l'étranger.
HTML | Published: 1998-10-14 | Added: 2004-06-12

Military admits it can't detect Arctic intruders
Despite repeated assurance that it will assert Canada's sovereignty in the Artic, the military is incapable of collecting or analyzing intelligence in the North to detect foreign trespassers.
TEXT | Published: 2001-03-17 | Added: 2004-06-12

Military cash pledge no panacea
Meanwhile, Stephen Staples of the Polaris Institute in Ottawa argued that the Canadian government also needs to inject cash into intelligence operations to protect against a possible terrorist attack in Canada.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-07 | Added: 2004-06-12

Tories to create new security bodies: document
An internal party document obtained by the French-language service of CBC suggests the Conservatives want to set up a U.S.-style national intelligence agency to manage information from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the RCMP.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-12 | Added: 2004-06-12

UN slams Canada over assassin
Ahani came to Canada in 1991 and made a refugee claim, but he was arrested in 1993 after an investigation by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) found he was working for Iran's intelligence service, MOIS.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-09 | Added: 2004-06-12

Arar lambastes federal moves to limit disclosure of documents at inquiry
Government lawyers argued late last month that disclosure of investigative methods used by the RCMP and CSIS could make them pariahs of the global intelligence community or even provide terrorists with valuable information.
HTML | Published: 2004-06-04 | Added: 2004-06-05

Canadian spies mounting more overseas operations to counter terror threat
Canada's spy agency is embarking on a growing number of undercover foreign missions in response to the rise in terrorism. Providing a rare glimpse into its strategic planning, a report by CSIS reveals an increasing reliance on secret operations  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-06-01 | Added: 2004-06-05

Canada adopts sweeping homeland security law
The Canadian government has passed extensive legislation to prevent terrorist attacks and increase public safety. The Public Safety Act amends 11 legislative provisions across the energy, health care, banking, transportation, and defence  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-05-18 | Added: 2004-06-02

Ottawa plays down U.S. warning
McLellan said there is no reason to believe that al-Qaeda has a cell of operatives in Canada after the United States issued a warning about an apparent plot to attack U.S. targets this summer by a group of suspected terrorists that includes two  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-05-27 | Added: 2004-06-01

Terrorist attack intended to disrupt Canadian election unlikely: experts
Canada may well be a terrorist target, but experts say it's unlikely that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida would time a strike in an effort to influence the federal election.
HTML | Published: 2004-05-28 | Added: 2004-06-01

Appointment of Acting Director, Canadian Security Intelligence Service
McLellan announced the appointment of Dale Neufeld as Acting Director of CSIS, effective May 31, 2004. Mr. Neufeld has been Deputy Director Operations of CSIS since April 2001.
LINK | Published: 2004-05-22 | Added: 2004-05-31

Further Action Against Terrorism
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Anne McLellan announces further action against terrorism.
LINK | Published: 2004-05-17 | Added: 2004-05-31

Operations Abroad
CSIS will continue to consider the use of covert intelligence operations outside of Canada if it will assist in investigating and better informing the government about the threats that we face to our national security.
LINK | Published: 2004-05-27 | Added: 2004-05-31

Arar inquiry called 'whitewash' by El-Maati
Next month's inquiry into the detention of Maher Arar is shaping up to be a "whitewash" and "cover-up," according to Ahmad Abou-El-Maati, another Arab Canadian formerly jailed in Syria.
HTML | Published: 2004-05-22 | Added: 2004-05-25

Canada gets new head spy
Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan said that Dale Neufeld has been appointed acting director of CSIS. He will take over his new duties at the end of May. He'd been deputy director of operations of CSIS since April 2001.
HTML | Published: 2004-05-22 | Added: 2004-05-25

Canadian spy plane grounded by mechanical troubles
Canada's pilot-less spy plane has been grounded for more than a week due to mechanical problems with its launcher, the latest in a series of growing pains facing troops since the project was launched in November.
HTML | Published: 2004-05-16 | Added: 2004-05-25

Neufeld to head national security service
Dale Neufeld, a 20-year veteran of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, has been appointed acting director of the agency. Neufeld, who had been deputy director of operations for CSIS since April 2001, succeeds Ward Elcock, CSIS director since  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-05-22 | Added: 2004-05-25

Watchdog links Canadians to 2 Afghan deaths
According to journalists, a tribal leader in his 80s was shot dead in a mosque and a 3-year-old girl drowned after she fell into a well trying to run away from U.S. forces. The organization alleged that the Canadian Joint Task Force 2 was involved.
HTML | Published: 2004-05-17 | Added: 2004-05-25

Atkey to help Arar inquiry fight secrecy
A former spy-agency watchdog has been given the job of fighting Ottawa's attempts to shield its secrets from public view once the Arar commission begins its fact-finding mission next month.
HTML | Published: 2004-05-20 | Added: 2004-05-21

La Russie avertit le SCRS de possibles attaques en Afghanistan
La Russie a averti le Service Canadien de Renseignement de Sécurité sur de possibles attaques terroristes qui pourraient être menées contre les troupes canadiennes en Afghanistan.
TEXT | Published: 2004-05-18 | Added: 2004-05-21

Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar
The Inquiry was established to investigate and report on the actions of Canadian officials in relation to Maher Arar and to recommend an arm's length review mechanism for the activities of the RCMP with respect to national security.
LINK | Published: 2004-05-10 | Added: 2004-05-11

Health Canada wins 4th annual Code of Silence Award
This year's other nominees included the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, for their efforts to stifle the use of confidential sources by journalists in Canada.
HTML | Published: 2004-05-09 | Added: 2004-05-11

La menace terroriste reste bien réelle, selon le chef du SCRS
Ward Elcock a averti la population que la menace terroriste était toujours bien présente. Même si la guerre au terrorisme a connu «quelques succès», «les leçons des dernières années nous montrent qu'ils ne disparaîtront pas du jour au lendemain».
HTML | Published: 2003-10-18 | Added: 2004-05-11

Ruling on standing and funding at the Arar Inquiry
Mr. Justice Dennis R. O'Connor released his decision concerning the requests for standing presented to him in the course of public hearings held on the 29th and 30th of April last.
HTML | Published: 2004-05-10 | Added: 2004-05-11

Bombings in Athens heighten concerns
Mark Lowry, the Canadian Olympic Committee's executive director of sport, said security measures are being drawn up by the RCMP, CSIS and Department of National Defence to guard the Canadian team, expected to number 275 athletes and 200 support  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-05-05 | Added: 2004-05-10

Canadian security head says attack by al-Qaeda inevitable
Ward Elcock, head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, also said CSIS had already prevented terror attacks in Canada and revealed his operatives were mounting an increasing number of spying missions abroad.
HTML | Published: 2004-05-08 | Added: 2004-05-10

CSIS chief warns of Al Qaeda attack
It's just a matter of time before Al Qaeda tries to attack Canadian targets, the head of Canada's spy agency said Thursday as he warned against complacency. He also explained that many more Canadian agents are involved in covert operations overseas.
HTML | Published: 2004-05-06 | Added: 2004-05-10

Marine Security Contribution Program announced
An additional investment of $25 million will be provided for increased DFO air surveillance. Augmenting the existing air program is an efficient and cost-effective way to obtain intelligence on marine vessel activities.
LINK | Published: 2004-05-07 | Added: 2004-05-10

Top Canadian spy: Attack probable
Canada's top spy, Ward Elcock, said a terrorist attack on Canada is almost inevitable given that the country appears on Osama bin Laden's blacklist.
HTML | Published: 2004-05-07 | Added: 2004-05-10

Canadian Forces purchases mini UAV system
The Canadian Forces, through the Canadian Forces Experimentation Centre has been investigating the use of UAVs to address a recognized capability deficiency in the areas of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, and Command and Control.
HTML | Published: 2004-05-04 | Added: 2004-05-09

Quash that subpoena!
In the book, Mitrovica concludes: 'CSIS is riddled by waste, incompetence, nepotism and law breaking.' He seems to be quoting CSIS employees. Making public that kind of information is against the law. He cares more about selling books.
HTML | Published: 2004-05-05 | Added: 2004-05-09

Writer fights Zundel subpoena
Justice Blais said that author Andrew Mitrovica should be prepared to account for splashy allegations of wrongdoing in his recent book on CSIS. "He seems to not care about national security," Judge Blais said. "He seems to care more about selling  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-05-06 | Added: 2004-05-09

Public Safety Act Receives Royal Assent
The Act is designed to improve Canada's capacity to prevent terrorist attacks, protect citizens and respond quickly should a threat be identified.
HTML | Published: 2004-05-06 | Added: 2004-05-08

$690M security plan unveiled
The federal government will do more spying, tighten port security, introduce digital chips in passports to thwart forgeries, and crack down on bogus refugees as part of a new comprehensive national security policy.
HTML | Published: 2004-04-28 | Added: 2004-05-02

Canada eyes spies abroad
Canada is leaving the door open to creating its own foreign intelligence agency -- a bigger version of the national intelligence security service known as CSIS.
HTML | Published: 2004-04-28 | Added: 2004-05-02

Canada weak link in global terror communications
Right now, CSIS, the RCMP and local police rely on a patchwork of laws - including the Criminal Code, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act and the Competition Act - for powers to intercept communications, and to search and seize  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-04-27 | Added: 2004-05-02

Canada's Armed Forces 'atrophied'
Clarke also said Canada might want to consider creating its own foreign intelligence service. "There are ways in which the United States could co-operate with Canada, if Canada had a more robust intelligence capability."
HTML | Published: 2004-04-27 | Added: 2004-05-02

Government trying to hold back documents from Arar inquiry
Lawyers for the federal government are objecting to Arar's involvement in hearings to decide whether some documents remain secret.
HTML | Published: 2004-04-30 | Added: 2004-05-02

Is Canada a haven for terrorists?
In Cold Terror, author Stewart Bell documents how Canada's top leaders long have denied or ignored the presence of hundreds of terrorist operatives in Canada, despite repeated warnings from CSIS, the nation's security and intelligence service.
HTML | Published: 2004-04-29 | Added: 2004-05-02

New choice for CSIS head security litmus test for Martin
Naming a new director of Canada's spy agency will be seen as a test by the United States and other western security agencies of Martin's commitment to combat terrorism.
HTML | Published: 2004-04-27 | Added: 2004-05-02

The Dirty Work of Canadian Intelligence
Former solicitor general Wayne Easter acknowledged the possibility that "rogue" elements of the RCMP may have played a role in Arar's rendition to Syria ­ essentially torture by proxy.
HTML | Published: 2004-04-28 | Added: 2004-05-02

Untangling tale of tortured Canadian
It's here, through the gates of military intelligence's Far Falasteen (Palestine Branch), that Arar was brought on Oct. 9, 2002. He was interrogated there, at the request of Canadian and U.S. intelligence agencies.
HTML | Published: 2004-05-01 | Added: 2004-05-02

Canada gets a military 'free ride': Clarke
"I think there's always been a perception for the last several years in the United States that Canada, while it is well-meaning, has not given the resources necessary to its law enforcement and intelligence agencies," he said.
HTML | Published: 2004-04-27 | Added: 2004-05-01

Canada Revenue Agency - Name Change
On December 12, 2003, the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) became the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). The customs program is now part of the new Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
LINK | Published: 2004-01-30 | Added: 2004-05-01

Government of Canada releases comprehensive National Security Policy
McLellan today tabled in Parliament Canada's first comprehensive statement on national security. Securing An Open Society: Canada's National Security Policy, sets out an integrated strategy and action plan designed to address current and future  [...]
LINK | Published: 2004-04-27 | Added: 2004-05-01

New funding initiatives
The Government of Canada will invest $137 million to support intelligence enhancement as part of the National Security Policy.
LINK | Published: 2004-04-27 | Added: 2004-05-01

Securing An Open Society: Canada's National Security Policy
Further investments to enhance Canada's intelligence collection capacity, with a focus on Security Intelligence.
LINK | Published: 2004-04-27 | Added: 2004-05-01

Al Qaeda website urges attacks on Canada
Canada has been named again in a chilling new call to arms from al Qaeda. A posting found this week on an al Qaeda website places Canada fifth on a target list. Public Security Minister Anne McLellan downplayed any threat.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-31 | Added: 2004-04-29

Counsel
Preference will be given to candidates with experience working with a quasi-judicial tribunal and with experience with the Access to Information Act and Privacy Act.
TEXT | Published: 2004-04-06 | Added: 2004-04-27

Le Canada affirme être prêt à faire face à des attaques terroristes maritimes
Le Canada affirme être prêt à faire face à des attaques terroristes sur l'eau. Le JTF-2, une unité antiterroriste canadienne d'élite, s'entraîne depuis au moins un an à faire face à une telle attaque.
TEXT | Published: 2004-03-18 | Added: 2004-04-27

Libération de deux canadiens des prisons syriennes
Abdullah Almalki et Ahmad Abou El-Maati avaient été arrêtés en 2001 et 2002, et l'enquête portait sur l'existence possible d'une cellule terroriste, à laquelle aurait aussi appartenu Maher Arar, ce résidant d'Ottawa libéré récemment d'une prison  [...]
TEXT | Published: 2004-03-21 | Added: 2004-04-27

Securing An Open Society: Canada's National Security Policy
Further investments will be made to enhance Canada's intelligence collection capacity, with a focus on Security Intelligence.
PDF | Published: 2004-04-27 | Added: 2004-04-27

Feds tighten reins on RCMP's security probes
In a bid to keep a tighter rein on the RCMP's national security probes, the federal government has quietly ordered the Mounties to obtain ministerial approval before co-operating with a foreign spy service.
HTML | Published: 2004-04-23 | Added: 2004-04-26

Maher Arar suing Canadian officials
The Canadian who was deported from the U.S. to Syria, where he says he was tortured as a suspected terrorist, is looking for compensation. Maher Arar and his family have filed a lawsuit against the Canadian government, CSIS, and the RCMP, claiming they  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-04-22 | Added: 2004-04-26

Martin to roll out ambitious national security policy
The policy will canvass six areas: improving intelligence gathering capacity, emergency planning, public health, transportation (marine) security, border security and international security.
HTML | Published: 2004-04-24 | Added: 2004-04-26

Muslims given handbook on dealing with CSIS
An Islamic group is distributing a pocket guide to Canadian Muslims advising them what to do if CSIS or the RCMP tries to interrogate them about terrorism.
HTML | Published: 2004-04-25 | Added: 2004-04-26

Ottawa plans $500m security fix
The Liberal government will spend $500-million on a new national security policy to close significant gaps in Canada's intelligence and security apparatus.
HTML | Published: 2004-04-22 | Added: 2004-04-26

Ottawa veut davantage de contrôle sur les enquêtes menées par la GRC
Dans le but d'avoir davantage de contrôle sur les enquêtes menées par la GRC en matière de sécurité, le gouvernement a ordonné aux policiers fédéraux de demander une autorisation ministérielle avant de collaborer avec un service d'espionnage  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-04-22 | Added: 2004-04-23

Afghanistan effort could make Canada a terrorist target: federal official
Robert Wright, national security adviser to Prime Minister Paul Martin, told a security conference that raids by Canadian troops could have a direct effect on the security of Canadian interests.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-26 | Added: 2004-04-22

Cash transfers to terrorists
Should the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre have reasonable grounds to suspect financial transactions are linked to terrorism, the agency discloses the case information to the RCMP and, if there is a threat to national security, to  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-03-28 | Added: 2004-04-22

Huge gaps in security
Canada's spending watchdog slammed the Liberal government for falling short of protecting Canadians from terrorists by leaving "significant gaps" in basic anti-terrorism measures.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-31 | Added: 2004-04-22

Ottawa devising system to protect sensitive data
The Liberals are creating a government-wide secret communications system to protect sensitive terrorism information from hackers. "Intelligence gathering is key if you're going to deal with issues around terrorism, if you're going to prevent various  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-03-26 | Added: 2004-04-22

Ottawa to set up secure communication system safe from hackers
A government-wide secret communication system is in the works to ensure federal officials can talk to each other without hackers or terrorists snooping on them.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-25 | Added: 2004-04-22

A National Security Committee of Parliamentarians
Consultation Paper to Help Inform the Creation of a Committee of Parliamentarians to Review National Security
LINK | Published: 2004-04-07 | Added: 2004-04-21

Biometrics: Ready for prime time?
In Canada, the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority is piloting the use of biometric smart cards by airport workers to improve airport security.
HTML | Published: 2004-04-14 | Added: 2004-04-21

Confronting the "Enemy Within": Security Intelligence, the Police and Counterterrorism in Four Democracies
Understanding the experience of domestic intelligence bureaus in the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and Australia can help inform the debate on a new domestic intelligence service in the United States.
PDF | Published: 2004-04-07 | Added: 2004-04-21

Criminal Code - Terrorism
Every Canadian shall disclose forthwith to the RCMP and to CSIS (a) the existence of property in their possession or control that they know is owned or controlled by or on behalf of a terrorist group; and (b) information about a transaction or proposed  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-12-31 | Added: 2004-04-21

CSIS Wants to Talk to Khadr's
24-hour after returning to Canada, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service wants to speak to two members of a family linked to al-Qaida.
HTML | Published: 2004-04-11 | Added: 2004-04-21

Deputy Prime Minister tables consultation paper on National Security Committee of Parliamentarians
The Committee's creation is part of the Government's Action Plan on Democratic Reform, announced by the Prime Minister on December 12. It will provide a broader role for Parliament in guiding and reviewing Canada's national security activities.
LINK | Published: 2004-03-31 | Added: 2004-04-21

National Defence Act - Communications Security Establishment
The part of the public service of Canada known as the Communications Security Establishment is hereby continued.
LINK | Published: 2003-12-31 | Added: 2004-04-21

PSEPC Departmental Organizational Change
PSEPC is a fundamental component of the Government's efforts to integrate federal activities under strong leadership, maximize the effectiveness of interagency cooperation, and increase accountability to all Canadians.
LINK | Published: 2004-04-16 | Added: 2004-04-21

Supporters of alleged Moroccan terrorist accuse Ottawa of hiding a key report
The Canada Border Services Agency rejected claims the government tried to cover up the existence of the report which says that Adil Charkaoui faces "a probability of torture, threats to his life and cruel and unusual punishment" if he's deported.
HTML | Published: 2004-04-06 | Added: 2004-04-21

Budget 2004 - The Importance of Canada's Relationship to the World
To continue to meet current needs and provide for new security priorities, Budget 2004 provides an additional $605 million over five years to the security contingency reserve. These funds will be used to address security priorities such as intelligence,  [...]
LINK | Published: 2004-03-23 | Added: 2004-04-16

Canada to honour defector Igor Gouzenko
A bronze plaque will be installed in a small Ottawa park across from a modest apartment house Thursday, marking what many see as the event that ushered in the Cold War.
HTML | Published: 2004-04-14 | Added: 2004-04-15

Backgrounder - Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada
The Portfolio consists of the Department and six agencies. There are also three independent review bodies that ensure accountability and respect for the rule of law, and two statutory review bodies of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service  [...]
LINK | Published: 2004-02-13 | Added: 2004-04-14

Canada vows to do more to prevent attacks on U.S.
Canada will take new measures to fight terror and prevent the country from being used as a base by militants seeking to launch strikes against the United States. Priorities include intelligence enhancement, marine security, cyber security, improving  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-03-25 | Added: 2004-04-14

Canadian detained in Iraq
Another Canadian citizen has been detained abroad and federal security agents visited his friends, days after he left Toronto. Iraqi-born Aumar Alsorani is being held in Irbil, Iraq, and questioned, but not charged.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-25 | Added: 2004-04-14

Fraser report sounds security alarm
Canada has ignored the lessons from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by bungling efforts to keep terrorists out and allowing as many as 4,500 workers possibly linked to organized crime a free rein at airports, Auditor-General Sheila Fraser says.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-31 | Added: 2004-04-14

Key highlights in response to Chapter 3 of the Auditor General's Report "National Security in Canada - the 2001 Anti-Terrorism Initiative"
The Government is moving in the right direction, with efforts to more closely co-ordinate the collection of intelligence information and to encourage the exchange of information among analysts.
LINK | Published: 2004-03-30 | Added: 2004-04-14

Liberals face new crisis over security flaws
With her unerring ability to target administrative failures that infuriate taxpayers and grab headlines, Fraser will not only question the efficiency of Canada's intelligence-sharing apparatus, she will reveal today that this country's airports aren't  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-03-30 | Added: 2004-04-14

Liberals introduce new whistleblower legislation
Employees of cabinet ministers along with public servants working in areas of national security, including the RCMP, CSIS, Communications Security Establishment and National Defence, are not covered under the new legislation.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-22 | Added: 2004-04-14

McLellan defends government security spending
Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan defended government security spending on Sunday, two days before an Auditor General's report that will question how effectively the government spent $7.7 billion to secure Canada after Sept. 11.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-28 | Added: 2004-04-14

National Security in Canada - The 2001 Anti-Terrorism Initiative
We examined the co-ordination of intelligence among departments and agencies and their ability to provide adequate information to enforcement personnel. We examined in greater detail the interoperability of security and intelligence information  [...]
LINK | Published: 2004-03-30 | Added: 2004-04-14

Ottawa Homes Raided by National Security Police Squad, CBC Says
A Canadian police squad charged with investigating threats to national security raided and searched two homes in Ottawa and arrested one man.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-30 | Added: 2004-04-14

Securing Canada: Laying The Groundwork For Canada's First National Security Policy
We must protect the physical safety of Canadians, we need to continue to ensure Canada is not a base for threats to others, and our National Security Policy should contribute to the development of a more effective international security system.
LINK | Published: 2004-03-25 | Added: 2004-04-14

The Invisible Men
A public inquiry set to begin in Canada may reveal long-hidden secrets about the abuses of America's war on terror. It will investigate why Maher Arar was detained and then escorted through Jordan to Syria, where he said he was tortured.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-30 | Added: 2004-04-14

The risk is growing, U.S. expert declares
After a Canadian-based al-Qaeda cell failed in its plot to blow up Los Angeles airport in 1999, both the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service and the RCMP were "bending over backwards to be helpful," Mr. Clarke said.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-31 | Added: 2004-04-14

Assessing Canadian Intelligence Literature: 1980-2000
For a relatively small country that does not have a very large intelligence establishment, Canada has produced quite a sizeable literature on such matters.
PDF | Published: 2001-03-20 | Added: 2004-04-13

The Future of Canada's Defence Intelligence
The force development plans and mission projections for the Canadian Forces and the ongoing Revolution in Military Affairs have far-reaching implications for the future role of Canada's Military Intelligence.
PDF | Published: 2002-12-22 | Added: 2004-04-13

Foreign Affairs Canada
Official site of Foreign Affairs Canada.
LINK | Published: 2004-04-01 | Added: 2004-04-08

Information about the Changes
Prime Minister Martin announced changes to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. All its services, programs and activities will now be offered by two separate departments: Foreign Affairs Canada and International Trade Canada.
LINK | Published: 2004-04-01 | Added: 2004-04-08

Principal organizations involved in national security program delivery
National security programs include national defence, policing and federal law enforcement, intelligence, border control, transportation security, critical asset protection, and disaster and emergency management.
LINK | Published: 2004-03-30 | Added: 2004-04-02

Cabinet Committee Membership
List of the Cabinet committees and their membership.
LINK | Published: 2004-01-30 | Added: 2004-03-25

Special Senate Committee on Bill C-36
Official site of the Special Senate Committee on Bill C-36.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2004-03-25

Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence
Official site of the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2004-03-25

Le Canada a-t-il besoin d'un service de renseignement de style CIA?
Un groupe de spécialistes de l'espionnage s'apprêterait à soulever la question de savoir si oui ou non le Canada devrait se doter d'un service de renseignement étranger du style de la CIA américaine.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-24 | Added: 2004-03-24

Panel ponders CIA-style spy service for Canada
A panel of senior spymasters is quietly mulling the vexing question of whether Canada should create a CIA-style foreign intelligence service.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-24 | Added: 2004-03-24

Canada making significant effort to fight terrorism, defence minister says
"We have made a very significant contribution (to the war on terror), I think, for a country our size and we are making a continuing contribution from the standpoint not just of the military but of intelligence as well," Pratt said.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-20 | Added: 2004-03-22

Canada's troubled spy plane fleet loses 4th drone in Afghanistan
Canada's Sperwar UAVs have crashed or sustained damage in hard landings four times. Cracks have been found the wings of two planes. And problems with a launcher recently grounded the aircraft for several days.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-20 | Added: 2004-03-22

Elite troops train for terror from sea
Joint Task Force 2 has been using Victoria, B.C., and Halifax, N.S., as well as offshore oil rigs, as areas for honing its skills to defend the country against a maritime assault.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-18 | Added: 2004-03-22

Terrorists could use B.C. coast, warns expert
The Canadian Forces counter-terrorism unit, Joint Task Force Two, is using port cities like Victoria to prepare for the possibility of a sea-based attack.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-18 | Added: 2004-03-22

Top-level report warns of terrorist plots
A secret intelligence report distributed to key federal authorities by the Privy Council Office expresses concern that al-Qaida extremists could use lethal substances such as ricin and botulinum in a terrorist campaign to contaminate food and water.
HTML | Published: 2003-11-11 | Added: 2004-03-22

Ottawa laying ground work for special Joint Parliamentary National Security Committee: Minister McLellan
In a wide-ranging interview, Ms. McLellan, who is also Deputy Prime Minister, spoke at length about the challenges she faces in her new portfolio.
PDF | Published: 2004-03-08 | Added: 2004-03-18

Defence Scientist - Radar Electronic Warfare
Scientists in the REW section undertake research and development in passive intercept of radar signals, electronic intelligence, threat alert, electronic countermeasures and counter-terrorism technologies for the Canadian Forces.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-16 | Added: 2004-03-16

Muslim group concerned over Arar case
A group representing Canadian Muslims expressed "grave concern" Tuesday about word the Ottawa police teamed up with the RCMP and other security officials to investigate Maher Arar.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-09 | Added: 2004-03-11

Regional Pollution Intelligence Officer
The position is located within the Department of the Environment. Experience in collecting, processing and analyzing intelligence data. Experience in conducting intelligence activities and recommending enforcement action.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-11 | Added: 2004-03-11

Spy hunters will take secrets to grave
Thousands of Canadians involved in the hunt for terrorists and spies will be forbidden from ever discussing sensitive aspects of their work under a new federal secrecy law. The government expects between 5,000 and 6,000 current and former security and  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-03-08 | Added: 2004-03-11

Journalist admits she was RCMP informant
Journalist Stevie Cameron has admitted being the confidential informant whose identity was protected by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the Eurocopter helicopter-procurement case.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-25 | Added: 2004-03-09

Canada listens to world as partner in spy system
The public may not be so blasé about the fact that "good" countries, not just "bad," practice espionage — routine, all-pervasive, electronic espionage. But it's naive to think otherwise. All nations, including Canada, spy on friends as well as  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-03-07 | Added: 2004-03-07

CIA paid me to spy: Abdurahman Khadr
Prime Minister Paul Martin says it's confidential whether Canadian intelligence agencies knew about the Khadr family's terrorist connections, but says it's a good example of why Canada is investing more in intelligence.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-05 | Added: 2004-03-07

Ernst Zundel, civil-rights champion?
After more than a year in solitary confinement, Canada's most famous Holocaust denier is still fighting deportation, and he may rewrite the law in the process. All because he wants to know what the secret case is against him.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-06 | Added: 2004-03-07

Foreign spy service would pose problems
National security misunderstandings are dangerous and few things are more misunderstood than Canadian spying abroad. So little is known about this country's covert foreign operations that Defence Minister David Pratt's enthusiasm for creating a foreign  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-03-06 | Added: 2004-03-07

Canada admits: We're terror haven
In a 22-page assessment of the security threats facing the nation, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said international terrorists are still using the country as a base for waging worldwide political and religious violence.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-02 | Added: 2004-03-02

Le Canada: terre d'asile pour les terroristes
Le Canada serait toujours un lieu de prédilection pour certaines des plus importantes organisations terroristes du monde. C'est ce que révèle un document du SCRS intitulé Menaces à la sécurité nationale canadienne.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-01 | Added: 2004-03-02

D'importants groupes terroristes encore actifs
Le Canada serait toujours un lieu de prédilection pour certaines des plus importantes organisations terroristes du monde, selon ce qui est révélé dans un document du Service canadien de renseignements et de sécurité, le SCRS.
HTML | Published: 2004-03-01 | Added: 2004-03-01

Centre of attention
The eight-year-old Salaheddin Islamic Centre is a place of worship for as many as 2,500 Toronto Muslims and a private elementary school for 215 students. It now has become a magnet for security services both here and abroad.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-28 | Added: 2004-02-28

U.S. wanted Arar to be tortured, lawyer says
U.S. authorities "contracted out" the torture of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen deported to Syria for a year of interrogation and torture, says a New York civil rights lawyer representing him in a lawsuit against the United States government.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-28 | Added: 2004-02-28

New torture claim shows Arar's case isn't unique
Nureddin is a 36-year-old computer programmer living in Scarborough. A refugee from Saddam Hussein's Iraq, he has been a Canadian citizen since 1997. Somewhere along the line, Nureddin came to the attention of the Canadian Security Intelligence  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-02-26 | Added: 2004-02-26

The Gouzenko Affair
On 5 Sept. 1945, a Russian cipher clerk named Igor Gouzenko fled the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with 109 documents proving the existence of a Soviet spy ring in Canada. His revelations reverberated throughout the the world and helped to ignite the Cold  [...]
LINK | Published: 2002-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-26

Canadian Forces National Counter-Intelligence Unit
The mission of the CFNCIU is to provide security and CI services in support of DND and the CF during peace, crisis and war. The mandate of the unit includes providing CI advice to senior DND and CF leadership and assistance with strategic, theatre,  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-03-28 | Added: 2004-02-25

Canadian troops to secure embassy in Haiti
Canadian troops were sent to Haiti Wednesday to help secure the embassy in the wake of increasing unrest. Canadian Press said they were likely part of special operations unit Joint Task Force 2.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-25 | Added: 2004-02-25

Des troupes canadiennes en Haïti
Ottawa va dépêcher des soldats canadiens en Haïti. Ce petit déploiement, vraisemblablement de membres de la Deuxième Force opérationnelle interarmées, aura pour mission de protéger le personnel de l'ambassade canadienne de Port-au-Prince.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-25 | Added: 2004-02-25

Facing our Responsibilities - The State of Readiness of the Canadian Forces
Our foreign intelligence needs are met through signals intelligence collection by CSE, through an Interview Programme administered by DFAIT and from intelligence sharing with our Allies.
LINK | Published: 2002-10-25 | Added: 2004-02-25

Security chief fears for Canadian flights
Canada continues to receive specific terrorist threats against Canadian flights and urgently needs expanded powers to gather more information on airline passengers, says Prime Minister Paul Martin's top national security adviser.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-24 | Added: 2004-02-25

The Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces
Although the Department administers it, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) receives its policy guidance from the Privy Council Office, which reports directly to the Prime Minister.
LINK | Published: 2002-08-06 | Added: 2004-02-25

Canada's Communications Security Establishment from Cold War to Globalization
CSE is Canada's largest, best funded and most highly secretive intelligence agency, and is the main provider of foreign intelligence to the Canadian government. CSE collects, analyses and reports on SIGINT derived from interceptions of foreign  [...]
PDF | Published: 2000-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-22

Future Canadian Defence Policy
The discussion on Intelligence considered various aspects of the issue, especially the challenges of maximising the utility, purpose and application of technology, human resources, and finances.
LINK | Published: 2001-03-23 | Added: 2004-02-22

Intelligence and Information Superiority in the Future of Canadian Defence Policy
The force development plans and mission projections for the Canadian Forces (CF) and the ongoing Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) have far-reaching implications for the future role of Defence Intelligence.
PDF | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-22

Better spies needed overseas - senator
The question of whether Canada needs its own foreign spy service surfaced at a Toronto conference that brought together some of the country's top minds on intelligence matters.
JPG | Published: 1999-06-14 | Added: 2004-02-21

Blais won't rule out spying on Canadians
Canada's spy agency has no immediate plans to re-establish the counter-subversive branch it used to spy on thousands of innocent Canadians, Solicitor-General Pierre Blais says. But he refused to say if the federal government would accept a  [...]
JPG | Published: 1989-09-30 | Added: 2004-02-21

Canada needs to send spies abroad to guarantee sovereignty, CSIS says
[the title should read SIRC and not CSIS] Canada can't be fully sovereign without the ability to send spies abroad, the watchdog panel that oversees the Canadian Security Intelligence Service suggested.
JPG | Published: 1989-11-24 | Added: 2004-02-21

Canada urged to create international spy branch
Canada needs an aggressive "offshore" spy section, says a key player in Canada's intelligence community. "That is an area that has to be addressed," says Jean-Jacques Blais, the former sollicitor-general who helped create CSIS.
JPG | Published: 1988-02-29 | Added: 2004-02-21

CSE? Don't even ask -- it's secret
The strongest arm of Canada's intelligence network operates in almost total secrecy and with no external check for civil liberties infractions. While CSIS operates under the intermittent glare of publicity and the constant snapping of a watchdog  [...]
JPG | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-21

CSIS has no business in foreign intelligence
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service should stick to its primary mandate, security intelligence, and stay out of the business of foreign intelligence. CSIS well knows that no democracy has permitted the combination of both in one agency.
JPG | Published: 2001-10-29 | Added: 2004-02-21

Don't spy abroad, ex-Mountie says
The federal government would be creating "a monster" if it accepts a recommendation to allow Canadian spies to operate abroad, the former head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police security service says.
JPG | Published: 1989-09-30 | Added: 2004-02-21

Drug addicts steal secret CSIS plans
A top-secret CSIS document was stolen from an officer's car by a trio of drug addicts while the officer was at a Maple Leafs hockey game in Toronto. Federal officials familiar with the case say this may be the service's most serious internal security  [...]
JPG | Published: 1999-11-12 | Added: 2004-02-21

Espionage Canada?
A covert foreign service would be very expensive and likely not very effective. It is difficult to argue, in terms of national security and our trading and other interests, that a Canadian espionage service would serve any vital purpose.
JPG | Published: 1992-07-02 | Added: 2004-02-21

Fewer terror suspects monitored post-9/11
Canada's intelligence service is investigating fewer suspected terrorists than it was prior to the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a "secret" government document.
JPG | Published: 2002-09-19 | Added: 2004-02-21

Goodale details extra spending
Ottawa's supplementary estimates - spending outside the regular budget - included $5.2 million for intelligence-gathering and prosecution of organized crime.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-19 | Added: 2004-02-21

It's time we dirtied our hands, say spy agency proponents
Every decade or so, a plot is hatched for a Canadian foreign intelligence agency. It arouses lukewarm interest and earnest calls for debate - and is quietly killed by a conviction that espionage is an un-Canadian activity.
JPG | Published: 2001-11-03 | Added: 2004-02-21

Limited overseas use of CSIS agents urged
Canada does not need its own "offensive" spy agency operating abroad, but it could use an occasional Canadian Security Intelligence Service agent overseas, the committee that monitors the CSIS said.
JPG | Published: 1989-09-28 | Added: 2004-02-21

One thing after another for red-faced spymasters
Canada's espionage agencies enjoy operating deep in the shadows. No press, for spies, is usually good press. By that measure, the past few months have not been the best times for this nation's spymasters. A string of embarassing revelations have them,  [...]
JPG | Published: 1999-11-12 | Added: 2004-02-21

Security analysts issue wake-up call
Jolted out of naïve complacency by terrorist attacks on the U.S., Canada should hold a full and independent analysis of its intelligence and security apparatus, says Stuart Farson, an executive member of the Canadian Association for Security and  [...]
JPG | Published: 2001-10-04 | Added: 2004-02-21

Spy watchdog launches probe of aborted China operation
The watchdog over Canada's espionage agency has launched a formal review of its handling of the highly sensitive and controversial probe - code-named Sidewinder - into the links between Chinese intelligence and criminal gangs in Canada.
JPG | Published: 2002-11-12 | Added: 2004-02-21

The dangers of creating a foreign spy agency
It is misleading nonsense to suggest Canada should have a foreign spy service. I am certain it is specious to argue that just because all the other Group of Seven countries have espionage agencies, as does Australia, that we should have one, too.
JPG | Published: 1995-09-18 | Added: 2004-02-21

Weighing the merits of a foreign intelligence service
Unlike most of its allies, Canada does not operate spy networks abroad. But there is a body of opinion in the Canadian intelligence community which believes Canada is hypocritical and naive not to have a network of secret agents overseas.
JPG | Published: 1988-10-22 | Added: 2004-02-21

When spying spells chaos
There is a real danger that an espionage agency would actively harm rather than help the national interest. I do not believe that a spy agency could be adequately directed and controlled.
JPG | Published: 1982-08-16 | Added: 2004-02-21

Canada's Mounties: Myth and Reality
R.C. Macleod traces the strange story of the force that began by policing the Klondlike gold rush and ended by spying on separatists and subversives.
HTML | Published: 2000-02-01 | Added: 2004-02-20

Abusing our welcome
Certainly not the RCMP, whose intelligence assessment last year effectively summarized the U.S. concerns, saying that "terrorists and organized crime groups may exploit flaws in migration controls to blend into and recruit from immigrant communities and  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-02-18 | Added: 2004-02-19

The Pillar Society
The Pillar Society was officially formed in 1994. Membership is limited to former employees of CSIS and former members of the RCMP Security Service (or its predecessor branches of the RCMP), who left their employment in good standing.
TEXT | Published: 2004-02-14 | Added: 2004-02-19

La Couronne révèle l'existence d'un autre document
Les avocats de la journaliste du Ottawa Citizen chez qui la GRC a effectué des saisies relativement à l'affaire Arar ont été consternés d'apprendre lundi l'existence d'un document crucial dont on ne leur avait pas parlé.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-16 | Added: 2004-02-16

Andrew Kavchak honours Igor Gouzenko
Information on Andrew Kavchak's efforts to have Igor Gouzenko officially recognized by the Canadian government as a historical benefactor to Canada and its people.
LINK | Published: 2003-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-15

External, independent review of security and intelligence agencies is inconsistent
There are inconsistencies in the level of external reviews of organizations collecting security intelligence and the extent to which the findings of external reviewers are reported to Parliament.
LINK | Published: 2004-02-10 | Added: 2004-02-15

Igor Gouzenko's statement
I, Igor Gouzenko wish to make the following statement of my own will: Having arrived in Canada two years ago, I was surprised during the first days by the complete freedom of the individual which exists in Canada but does not exists in Russia. The false  [...]
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-15

Independent reviews of security and intelligence agencies
This audit observation is a result of a larger project announced in the 2001 Budget. Our objective was to determine if there are gaps in the extent and nature of the external review of Canada's security and intelligence agencies.
LINK | Published: 2004-02-10 | Added: 2004-02-15

Who oversees our spies? In most cases, nobody
So who watches all of these watchers? Who makes sure they don't overstep their bounds? Fraser's report is particularly sobering here, for her answer is - in most cases - nobody.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-14 | Added: 2004-02-15

The Gouzenko Affair: The Beginnings of Canadian Counter-Espionage and Cold War Intelligence History
The Conference will be a major national event, involving distinguished scholars and researchers from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. This will provide an opportunity, for the first time, for an historical examination of the Gouzenko  [...]
LINK | Published: 2004-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-13

Canada was targeted by al-Qaida, says U.S. report
Jewish targets in Ottawa were part of a foiled terrorist attack by a South American-based group linked to al-Qaida aiming to simultaneously assault landmarks in Canada, Paraguay and Argentina to undermine the Middle East peace process.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-09 | Added: 2004-02-12

CSIS on guard
Usually, it makes headlines when someone (recently, Maher Arar) objects to its activities. Yet the implication of a recent report is that our domestic spy agency is quietly and methodically doing a job that needs to be done.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-10 | Added: 2004-02-12

Spies need more scrutiny, auditor says
The government must fill gaps in the patchwork of watchdog agencies keeping an eye on Canada's spies, the auditor general says. There should be more consistency in the extent of independent review of the intrusive powers of federal intelligence  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-02-10 | Added: 2004-02-12

Canadian commandos were on afghan frontlines
Canadian commandos were part of a U.S.-led task force that killed at least 115 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters and captured another 107 over a six-month period in Afghanistan.
HTML | Published: 2002-09-29 | Added: 2004-02-11

Caucus committee chairman wants foreign spy agency
The chairman of the Liberal caucus committee on foreign affairs and defence says Canada needs a foreign spy agency. Bryon Wilfert points out that Canada is the only major industrial nation without a foreign intelligence service.
HTML | Published: 2002-01-27 | Added: 2004-02-11

CSIS acknowledges foreign operations
The head of CSIS has acknowledged that it carries out missions outside the country. Ward Elcock told the House of Commons immigration committee that the carrying out of covert missions abroad is part of the service's mandate.
HTML | Published: 2001-10-19 | Added: 2004-02-11

Le SCRS enquêtait sur Al-Qaïda avant même les actes terroristes du 11 septembre
Le Service canadien du renseignement de sécurité, le SCRS, confirme, pour la première fois, qu'il enquêtait activement sur les opérations du réseau terroriste Al-Qaïda avant les attentats du 11 septembre 2001 à New York et Washington.
HTML | Published: 2002-10-26 | Added: 2004-02-11

Le service canadien du renseignement en difficulté
Le SCRS ne parviendrait pas à faire les vérifications qui s'imposent quant aux nouveaux arrivants au pays. Selon CSARS, ce Service a du mal à rencontrer les exigences des contrôles de sécurité imposés depuis les attentats du 11 septembre.
HTML | Published: 2001-10-26 | Added: 2004-02-11

Les services secrets canadiens auront plus d'argent
Le premier ministre Paul Martin souhaite accroître le budget consacré aux opérations de renseignements à l'étranger. M. Martin songe à confier au SCRS ou à une nouvelle agence le mandat de recueillir des renseignements outre-mer.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-07 | Added: 2004-02-11

Ottawa envisage la création d'une agence de renseignement international
Le ministre canadien des Affaires étrangères, John Manley, estime que le Canada aura besoin d'un financement accru pour sa Défense nationale, ses Services du renseignement, et l'aide internationale.
HTML | Published: 2001-10-05 | Added: 2004-02-11

Paul Martin, veut accroître le budget consacré aux opérations de renseignement
Le premier ministre du Canada, Paul Martin, veut accroître le budget consacré aux opérations de renseignement de sécurité à l'étranger.
TEXT | Published: 2004-02-08 | Added: 2004-02-11

Canadian government plans to expand overseas spy service
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin has said that his government wants to expand Canada's spy operations overseas.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-08 | Added: 2004-02-09

Inspector General of CSIS Publications
Publications from the Inspector General of Canadian Security Intelligence Service, including annual certificates.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-09

List of SIRC Reviews
List of reviews undertaken by the Security Intelligence Review Committee.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-09

SIRC Annual Reports
Annual reports of the Security Intelligence Review Committee.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-09

A Short History of Canadian Military Intelligence
The Canadian Intelligence Community traces its origins to those British and French officers who were employed at various times in the early history of the country as scouts, guides, agents, liaison officers and on other duties.
LINK | Published: 1998-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-07

Arar inquiry a problem for government
A few days after announcing that Justice Dennis O'Connor will probe how and why U.S. authorities detained and then deported a Canadian to Syria, the federal government announced terms of reference that suggest the answers the inquiry makes public will  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-02-07 | Added: 2004-02-07

Buy the Best, Kill the Rest - Minister John McCallum ranks DND's Pet Projects
ISTAR, which stands for Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance, is a high-tech system that will serve as the eyes and ears of our commanders. ISTAR is projected to cost $600-700 million over ten years.
HTML | Published: 2003-02-27 | Added: 2004-02-07

Canada Border Services Agency
Official site of the Canada Border Services Agency.
LINK | Published: 2004-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-07

Canadian Intelligence: Americans Must Beware of Islamists
CSIS issued its ninth annual Public Report in June 2000. Of particular notice the report frankly discusses "Islamic religious extremism as the preeminent international terrorist threat" and discusses its potential danger to the United States.
HTML | Published: 2000-09-01 | Added: 2004-02-07

Carleton University International Affairs Graduate Calendar
Intelligence, Statecraft and International Affairs: The role of intelligence in foreign and security policy after the Cold War. Evolution of intelligence as regards strategic and policy requirements, the capabilities of selected services, interactions  [...]
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-07

Carleton University Political Science Undergraduate Calendar
National Security and Intelligence in the Modern State: The state's response to foreign espionage, alleged subversion, terrorism, and counterntelligence. Major focus on the Canadian experience, but with extensive use of materials chronicling the  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-07

Centre for Security and Defence Studies - Intelligence and Policy
The Intelligence and Policy module promotes research, graduate teaching, and public understanding of the role of intelligence in international security affairs, and provides an expert forum for discourse on intelligence policy issues between the  [...]
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-07

Dalhousie University History Undergraduate Calendar
The History of Modern Intelligence in War and Diplomacy: Intelligence, or accurate up-to-date information, about unfolding world events is crucial to the successful conduct of foreign policy. Nations survive or prosper based on their ability to gather  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-07-16 | Added: 2004-02-07

Immigration Intelligence - Case Screening
One of the core functions of CBSA's Immigration Intelligence network is helping to screen immigrants, refugees, and visitors in order to prevent inadmissible persons from entering or remaining in Canada.
LINK | Published: 2004-01-28 | Added: 2004-02-07

Immigration Intelligence - Irregular Migration
The Immigration Intelligence network is an important element in CBSA's strategy for dealing with irregular migration to Canada. This strategy relies on "intelligence-based" decision making to identify high-risk travellers while facilitating the movement  [...]
LINK | Published: 2004-01-28 | Added: 2004-02-07

Immigration Intelligence - Overview
CBSA's Immigration Intelligence network is involved in the planning, collection, analysis, and dissemination of intelligence regarding threats to the integrity of Canada's immigration, visitor, refugee, and citizenship programs.
LINK | Published: 2004-01-28 | Added: 2004-02-07

Intelligence agency spies on students
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service recently gained increased powers to recruit and direct spies on university campuses across Canada. The agency's goal is to monitor and prevent terrorist activity and foreign espionage.
HTML | Published: 1999-09-27 | Added: 2004-02-07

Intelligence Gathering and Information Warfare
Press review about CSIS Studies, Cyber Defences, and CFS Alert.
HTML | Published: 1998-07-01 | Added: 2004-02-07

Ironside's Intelligence Centre
Reference library on military intelligence.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-07

Martin veut accroître le budget des opérations de renseignement à l'étranger
Le premier ministre Paul Martin souhaite accroître le budget consacré aux opérations de renseignement à l'étranger.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-07 | Added: 2004-02-07

PM wants to expand overseas spy service
In the clearest signal yet of a coming shake-up in the counter-terrorism business in this country, Prime Minister Paul Martin said this week he wants to expand Canada's spy operations overseas.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-07 | Added: 2004-02-07

RCMP still playing I spy
New powers vested in the RCMP, as well as the renewed emphasis on information-gathering by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and other government spy agencies, doesn't affect just villains. Anyone can get caught in the net.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-07 | Added: 2004-02-07

Special Appointment Regulations - National Security Advisor
The Governor in Council may appoint Robert A. Wright to the position of Associate Secretary to Cabinet and National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, to hold office during pleasure.
LINK | Published: 2003-12-12 | Added: 2004-02-07

University of New Brunswick History Graduate Calendar
Intelligence in War and Diplomacy since 1945.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-07

University of Toronto History Undergraduate Calendar
Intelligence, Diplomacy, and Strategy During World War II: The development of intelligence techniques and operations in wartime conditions; the role of espionage, cryptanalysis and deception in deciding the battles and campaigns of the Second World  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-07

University of Toronto History Undergraduate Calendar
History of Modern Espionage: An introduction to the historical origins and evolution of modern intelligence services. Topics to be studied include: intelligence in wartime; technological change; intelligence failures; covert operations;  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-07

Analysts - Research, Analysis and Production Branch (RAP)
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is seeking specialists to fill research and analysis positions.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-29 | Added: 2004-02-06

Deputy Prime Minister Issues Terms of Reference for the Public Inquiry into the Maher Arar Matter
The Honourable Anne McLellan today announced that the Government of Canada has issued Terms of Reference for the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar.
LINK | Published: 2004-02-05 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the Canada Border Services Agency
Government electronic directory of the staff at the Canada Border Services Agency.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Government electronic directory of the staff at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP
Government electronic directory of the staff at the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the Communications Security Establishment
Government electronic directory of the staff at the Communications Security Establishment.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the Contraband and Intelligence Services Directorate
Government electronic directory of the staff at the Contraband and Intelligence Services Directorate of Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the Criminal Intelligence Directorate
Government electronic directory of the staff at the Criminal Intelligence Directorate of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the CSE Commissioner office.
Government electronic directory of the staff at the CSE Commissioner office.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
Government electronic directory of the staff at the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the Inspector General of CSIS office
Government electronic directory of the staff at the Inspector General of CSIS office.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the Intelligence Assessment Secretariat
Government electronic directory of the staff at the Intelligence Assessment Secretariat.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the Intelligence Branch
Government electronic directory of the staff at the Intelligence Branch of Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the Intelligence office
Government electronic directory of the staff at the Intelligence office of Transport Canada.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the J2/Director General Intelligence office
Government electronic directory of the staff at the J2/Director General Intelligence office of the Department of National Defence.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the National Security Advisor office
Government electronic directory of the staff at the National Security Advisor office.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the National Security Branch
Government electronic directory of the staff at the National Security Branch of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the National Security Group
Government electronic directory of the staff at the National Security Group of the Department of Justice Canada.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness
Government electronic directory of the staff at the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the Security and Intelligence Bureau
Government electronic directory of the staff at the Security and Intelligence Bureau of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the Security and Intelligence Secretariat
Government electronic directory of the staff at the Security and Intelligence Secretariat.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Directory of the Security Intelligence Review Committee
Government electronic directory of the staff at the Security Intelligence Review Committee.
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2004-02-06

Public Safety ministry combines several agencies
Taking a cue from the United States, the federal government has created an overarching public security ministry to help Canada deal with everything from terrorist threats to natural disasters.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-12 | Added: 2004-02-06

RCMP to face scrutiny at Arar probe
Justice Dennis O'Connor has been given a clear mandate to design a new independent watchdog agency for RCMP spying activities as part of his inquiry into the Maher Arar affair.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-06 | Added: 2004-02-06

ALTAIR Unmanned Aircraft to Deploy to Canada
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems announced the award of a contract with the Canadian Forces to deploy the company's ALTAIR unmanned aircraft, a variant of the proven Predator B, in support of the Atlantic Littoral Intelligence, Surveillance,  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-02-04 | Added: 2004-02-05

O'Connor given wide discretion in Arar inquiry
The federal government is giving Justice Dennis O'Connor wide discretion in his public inquiry into the Maher Arar affair under terms of reference released today.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-05 | Added: 2004-02-05

Privacy watchdog seeks information from journalists in Arar probe
At least two journalists, including the Ottawa Citizen reporter whose home was searched by the RCMP, could soon face a grilling from the federal privacy watchdog about the Maher Arar affair.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-04 | Added: 2004-02-05

Canada freed top al-Qaeda operative
The RCMP had their hands on one of the key insiders of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, but he was released after he had Mounties call his handler at the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
HTML | Published: 2001-11-22 | Added: 2004-02-03

Crime gangs get free roam on Canada Indian reserves
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police intelligence study last year described the Akwesasne Mohawk territory straddling Quebec and Ontario along the upstate New York border as "a primary portal for illegal goods moving in and out of Canada, including  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-02-01 | Added: 2004-02-02

I want to be able to clear my name
Maher Arar is now focused on the public inquiry that Justice Dennis O'Connor will conduct into his deportation and detention. "I think we should be consulted on the terms of reference," he said, sitting in the living room in his apartment in Ottawa.
HTML | Published: 2004-02-01 | Added: 2004-02-02

Speech from the Throne 2004
The Government will develop, with its domestic partners, Canada's first national security policy. This will publicly set forth the principles that will guide the Government's actions and serve as a blueprint for effectively securing Canada.
LINK | Published: 2004-02-02 | Added: 2004-02-02

Further Information on Maher Arar, 7 October 2003
On 5 October 2003, Maher Arar was released by the Syrian authorities, after being held in detention without charge for a year. He was handed over to the Canadian Consulate in Damascus, before being flown home to Canada on 6 October.
LINK | Published: 2003-10-07 | Added: 2004-01-31

Further Information on Maher Arar, 8 August 2003
Amnesty International has received reports that Maher Arar, a dual Canadian/Syrian citizen, is being tortured and ill-treated in Syrian detention.
LINK | Published: 2003-08-08 | Added: 2004-01-31

Justice must replace injustice for Maher Arar
The only way to get to the bottom of the role played by the RCMP, CSIS and other Canadian officials in Maher's tragedy is by conducting a full public inquiry.
LINK | Published: 2004-01-22 | Added: 2004-01-31

Possible disappearance of Maher Arar, 21 October 2002
Amnesty International is concerned by the possible "disappearance" of Canadian citizen Maher Arar. Although recent reports state that he was deported to Syria, neither the Canadian authorities nor his family have been able to confirm his  [...]
LINK | Published: 2002-10-21 | Added: 2004-01-31

Suit alleges RCMP stonewalling probes
Canada's RCMP watchdog has launched a court action alleging the force's commissioner and its officers are breaking laws intended to make them accountable.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-30 | Added: 2004-01-31

The real problem with our spies
CSIS and its sister agencies in the United States are still largely populated by intelligence officers who were reared in, and remain wedded to Cold War targets and techniques.
TEXT | Published: 2001-09-24 | Added: 2004-01-31

MaherArar.ca: Public Inquiry Now
Official site of the Maher Arar Support Committee.
LINK | Published: 2003-12-16 | Added: 2004-01-30

Ottawa to Probe Agencies' Role in Arar Deportation
The government has ordered a public inquiry into the role of Canadian intelligence agents in the arrest and deportation of a man who was seized by U.S. authorities while he changed planes in New York City and sent to a Syrian prison.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-28 | Added: 2004-01-30

Deputy Prime Minister Announces Public Inquiry in the Maher Arar Matter
Anne McLellan announced that Mr. Justice Dennis R. O'Connor will undertake a public inquiry into the Maher Arar matter. Mr. Justice O'Connor will assess the actions of Canadian officials in dealing with the deportation and detention of Mr. Arar.
LINK | Published: 2004-01-28 | Added: 2004-01-28

RCMP watchdog wants expanded role of monitoring Mountie security operations
The watchdog that probes complaints about the RCMP says it - not a new agency - should be given the job of keeping an eye on the Mounties' security and intelligence activities.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-27 | Added: 2004-01-28

Mounties crossed line with reporter, Manley insists
The RCMP went too far when it searched the home and office of an Ottawa journalist looking for information about the Maher Arar case, says former deputy prime minister John Manley.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-26 | Added: 2004-01-27

Senior Analyst - China
Desirable Qualifications and Requirements: Ability to read and speak Mandarin; First hand experience working or travelling in China; Knowledge of the Canadian intelligence community, including its organizations and key foreign allies; Experience in  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-01-27 | Added: 2004-01-27

Road to RCMP raid began in Guantanamo
The genesis of the RCMP raid on Ottawa Citizen reporter Juliet O'Neill lies in 9/11, of course, but more precisely in the panicked response of the American and Canadian governments.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-25 | Added: 2004-01-26

Spy plane crash leaves Afghan mission blind
One of Canada's spy planes has crashed and gone missing in Afghanistan, almost two months to the day after another crash that temporarily halted the unmanned surveillance aircraft program. That leaves the Canadian Forces in Kabul with no more spy  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-01-20 | Added: 2004-01-26

Book Review of Covert Entry: Spies, Lies and Crimes Inside Canada's Secret Service
Covert Entry is about a man named John J. Farrell and his involvement in CSIS operations and activities. This book review asserts that Covert Entry is not about Canadian intelligence but rather about how amazing Farrell is and how disastrous CSIS is.  [...]
PDF | Published: 2003-03-09 | Added: 2004-01-25

The Interception of Communications
ECHELON is controlled by the NSA and is operated in conjunction with the Second Parties to the UKUSA agreement: the British GCHQ, the Canadian CSE, the Australian DSD, and the GCSB of New Zealand.
PDF | Published: 2002-04-30 | Added: 2004-01-25

The Missing Agency: The Case for a Canadian Foreign Intelligence Service
The focus of this dissertation lies on the controversial statement that Canada needs to create a foreign intelligence agency. It addresses the issue of why Ottawa chose not to establish a CFIS in the first place. It also answers how Canada collects  [...]
PDF | Published: 2002-11-15 | Added: 2004-01-25

The Missing Agency: The Case for a Canadian Foreign Intelligence Service, 2nd Edition
This is the second edition of a dissertation which focus lies on the controversial statement that Canada needs to create a foreign intelligence agency. It addresses the issue of why Ottawa chose not to establish a CFIS in the first place. It also  [...]
PDF | Published: 2003-02-09 | Added: 2004-01-25

The Role of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in Immigration Security Screening
The main objective of this study is to present and understand the role of the CSIS in the Canadian immigration process. This objective is reached through the analysis of the mandate given to the CSIS by the Department of Citizenship and Immigration  [...]
PDF | Published: 1999-12-17 | Added: 2004-01-25

The UKUSA Agreement of 1948
Under the present division of responsibilities, the United States is responsible for signals intelligence in Latin America, most of Asia, Russia and Northern China. The polar regions of Russia are the responsibility of Canada.
PDF | Published: 2001-11-27 | Added: 2004-01-25

Arar inquiry possible, Martin suggests
Prime Minister Paul Martin opened the door on Thursday to a public inquiry in to the Maher Arar affair even as the government denied a U.S. media report that Canadian intelligence sanctioned Arar's deportation to Syria.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-23 | Added: 2004-01-24

U.S. cited acquaintances in deporting Arar
The only stated reason the United States deported Maher Arar to Syria is that he admitted he knew two Ontario men who were also under RCMP investigation and later jailed as terrorism suspects in Syria.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-23 | Added: 2004-01-24

Canada Reporter's Home Raided Over Al Qaeda Story
Police raided the home and office of an Ottawa journalist on Wednesday to investigate possible leaks of classified information about a Syrian-born Canadian who was deported to Syria by the United States, suspected of ties to al Qaeda.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-21 | Added: 2004-01-23

Arar sues U.S. government
Refused the public inquiry that could explain why U.S. intelligence officials insisted on deporting him to Syria, Ottawa resident Maher Arar on Thursday filed suit against the United States government.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-22 | Added: 2004-01-22

Canada's dossier on Maher Arar
It is the existence of a now-disbanded alleged group, most if not all of whose members, are now in prison abroad, that a security source cites as the root of why the Canadian government is so fiercely opposed to a public inquiry into the case of Mr.  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-11-08 | Added: 2004-01-22

Canadian spies OK'd deportation
Canadian intelligence quietly approved of the United States decision to arrest and deport Syrian-born Canadian Maher Arar to Syria.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-22 | Added: 2004-01-22

Canadian sues US over deportation
A Canadian man who says he was tortured in Syria after being deported by the American authorities has launched a lawsuit against top US officials.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-22 | Added: 2004-01-22

Ex-terrorist gets boot
An accused sleeper agent who claims he has retired from a Palestinian terrorist group has lost an eight-year court battle to remain in Canada.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-22 | Added: 2004-01-22

His Year In Hell
U.S. government officials we spoke to say they told Canadian intelligence that they were sending Arar to Syria - and the Canadians signed off on the decision.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-21 | Added: 2004-01-22

RCMP raids reporter's offices over Arar case
Searching for evidence in connection with an alleged leak of confidential information in the Arar case, the RCMP turned its attention to a veteran journalist in Ottawa on Wednesday. Ten Mounties searched Ottawa Citizen reporter Juliet O'Neill's  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-01-22 | Added: 2004-01-22

Zundel denied bail; facing deportation
A Federal Court of Canada judge will rule today that Ernst Zundel poses a threat to national security and is to remain in prison while the court considers the government's deportation case against him.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-22 | Added: 2004-01-22

Air travellers face screening
The Canadian government is spending millions of dollars on a program to assess the terrorist risk posed by air travellers. The project aims to develop a sophisticated risk scoring capability and the technical ability to share that information with the  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-01-17 | Added: 2004-01-18

Creation of the Canada Border Services Agency
On December 12, 2003, the Government announced the creation of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). It will comprise the Customs program, the intelligence, interdiction and enforcement functions, formerly with CIC, and the passenger and initial  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-12-12 | Added: 2004-01-18

House Private Members' Bills - Bill C-409
Current status of Bill C-409, An Act to establish the Canadian Foreign Intelligence Agency
LINK | Published: 2003-03-17 | Added: 2004-01-18

New Structural Changes to the Government of Canada
The new Martin Government has initiated significant structural changes in Canadian Government Operations.
LINK | Published: 2004-01-01 | Added: 2004-01-18

Order Transferring Certain Portions from the Department of Citizenship and Immigration to the Canada Border Services Agency
Her Excellency the Governor General in Council hereby transfers to the Canada Border Services Agency the control and supervision of the following portions of the public service in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration.
LINK | Published: 2003-12-31 | Added: 2004-01-18

1,700 planes intercepted since 9/11
United States and Canadian military aircraft have scrambled nearly 1,700 times to intercept or divert suspicious aircraft since the Sept 11 attacks.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-17 | Added: 2004-01-17

Arar case began amid fear of attack on Ottawa
Canadian counterterrorism agents were investigating the possibility of an al-Qaeda plot to blow up targets in Ottawa when they began a probe that would lead to the detentions of Maher Arar and several other Canadian Muslims half a world away.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-16 | Added: 2004-01-16

Haggard Canadian held in Syria arrives home
A Canadian citizen arrested by Syrian authorities more than a month ago looked haggard and nervous today as he arrived home full of gratitude for the officials who secured his release. Syrian authorities released Muayyed Nureddin more than a month after  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-01-15 | Added: 2004-01-15

Elite Canadian commandos get marching orders
Members of the Canadian army's secretive anti-terrorist unit Joint Task Force Two or JTF-2, are on the move and may be heading to Afghanistan.
LINK | Published: 2001-12-06 | Added: 2004-01-14

Joint Task Force Two
Official site of the Joint Task Force Two.
LINK | Published: 2003-12-17 | Added: 2004-01-14

JTF2 recruiting now
The CF counter-terrorist unit Joint Task Force Two (JTF2), is looking for service members with these qualities to join their team. Once again this year JTF 2 recruiters will be visiting bases across the country as part of their annual recruiting  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-01-22 | Added: 2004-01-14

Special Ops: you fight dirty, we fight dirty
Being relatively new, Canada's JTF2 is considered a junior partner, but is acknowledged to have special expertise in cold-climate operations, having spent much time training in the Arctic.
LINK | Published: 2001-10-01 | Added: 2004-01-14

Taking stock of the intelligence function
While DND and CF intelligence resources were supporting deployed operations, the Chief of Review Services was conducting an internal audit to determine if those capabilities were being used most effectively and strategically.
LINK | Published: 2003-01-22 | Added: 2004-01-14

Bon Voyage, Chretien
Chretien's ignorance on matters relating to the security of not only Canadians, but also all North Americans, was mind-boggling for a head of state in the post-9/11 world.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-12 | Added: 2004-01-13

Canada Says Aims to Be a Strong U.S. Defense Partner
Pratt said, however, there are two priorities that are immediately obvious: the need to be able to deploy forces to hotspots around the world more quickly, and the need for "intelligence assets" to be able to direct firepower.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-13 | Added: 2004-01-13

Canada, U.S. strike Arar deal
Prime Minister Paul Martin is expected to announce today that Canada and the United States have agreed on new rules aimed to ensure that the Maher Arar scandal is never repeated.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-13 | Added: 2004-01-13

Information from Canada helped lead to alert, official says
Canada's solicitor general said information from his nation's intelligence agencies helped lead the United States to conclude that another terror attack could be imminent.
LINK | Published: 2001-10-31 | Added: 2004-01-13

Was it curtains for CSIS agent?
A CSIS agent bought drapes during his first interview with a woman who provided some of the most damning information against suspect Ajaib Singh Bagri, B.C. Supreme Court heard Wednesday.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-07 | Added: 2004-01-13

CASIS International Conference Student Reports
This year's conference marked many milestones, not the least of which was the participation of forty students from across Canada. They would be providing reports of conference proceedings, to be posted on the CASIS website.
LINK | Published: 2003-12-01 | Added: 2004-01-12

The Arar insinuations
If Maher Arar is known beyond a doubt to be an alumnus of the notorious Khalden al-Qaeda training camp in eastern Afghanistan, as anonymous parties within the federal government seem hell-bent on insinuating, why won't they come out of the shadows and  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-01-03 | Added: 2004-01-12

Arar trained at al-Qaida camp: Canadian official
Canadian and U.S. intelligence officials are "100-per-cent sure" that a Syrian-born Canadian who was imprisoned for a year in Damascus trained at the same al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan as a former Montrealer convicted of planning a terrorist attack.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-30 | Added: 2004-01-11

Chrétien was kept in the dark about Arar
Former prime minister Jean Chrétien was kept in the dark about the RCMP's involvement in the case of Maher Arar even as Canada was loudly protesting against the U.S. decision to deport the Ottawa man to Syria, federal documents show.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-09 | Added: 2004-01-11

CSIS suggests Gadhafi a terror target: report
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is clearly trying to improve relations with the West. A Canadian intelligence report suggests that might be because the colonel has become a terror target.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-25 | Added: 2004-01-11

CSIS tried bribe: activist
Canada's spy agency tried bribing a Quebec left-wing political party member into providing information on fellow anti-globalization activists this week, the approached man claimed yesterday.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-09 | Added: 2004-01-11

Experts say Arar inquiry is feasible
An inquiry into the Maher Arar case could be held without compromising Canadian security, according to experts on previous inquiries.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-26 | Added: 2004-01-11

Kurdish singer arrested in Montreal
RCMP officers are detaining a Kurdish singing star in Montreal on suspicions that he is linked to an organization with terrorist ties.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-24 | Added: 2004-01-11

Maher Arar and wife renew call for full inquiry
It's been almost two months since Maher Arar returned to Canada, yet Canadians are no closer to knowing why the Americans deported Arar to a Syrian prison. Arar and his wife, Monia Mazigh, say that only a full public inquiry can answer that  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-12-29 | Added: 2004-01-11

Nstein's Solution Partners with Health Canada
Nstein Technologies Inc. has signed an agreement with Health Canada to spearhead a new Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN) platform for monitoring potential public health risks and threats around the world.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-09 | Added: 2004-01-11

Only a public inquiry can settle Arar affair
CSIS and RCMP involvement is under scrutiny by internal watchdogs, but they are under no obligation to make a public report. That's not good enough. The Arar case is now as public as the weather, and as hard to predict. An inquiry can't hurt.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-31 | Added: 2004-01-11

PM to press Arar issue in talks with Bush
Prime Minister Paul Martin intends to make the Arar case a key test for better Canada-U.S. relations when he meets President Bush, arguing that the two countries can co-ordinate more closely only if Ottawa is assured the Arar case will not be  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-01-10 | Added: 2004-01-11

Role of CSIS questioned in disappearance
Muayyed Nureddin has been missing for 25 days now and his supporters are demanding answers from the federal government while questioning the role of the Canadian spy agency in his disappearance.
HTML | Published: 2004-01-05 | Added: 2004-01-11

The Week in Words
"This guy is not a virgin. There is more than meets the eye here.": An anonymous source in Canada's intelligence service commenting on Arar, the Syrian-born Canadian who was imprisoned for a year in Damascus after U.S. authorities deported him to  [...]
HTML | Published: 2004-01-04 | Added: 2004-01-11

US says other countries must put marshals on some planes; Canada already does
Transport Canada spokesman Peter Coyles said certain Canadian flights to the United States, including all to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, have carried armed law-enforcement officers since October 2001, when air travel resumed following the  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-12-29 | Added: 2004-01-11

Canadian Wildlife Service - Intelligence
The intelligence service is, in fact, a support service for inspections and investigations. Wildlife officers who work with intelligence are responsible for gathering, evaluating, filing, analyzing and distributing information regarding real, alleged or  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-07-24 | Added: 2003-12-28

CSIS watchdog to probe Arar case
The Security Intelligence Review Committee on Monday announced an investigation of CSIS's involvement in the Maher Arar case.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-22 | Added: 2003-12-24

CSIS, RCMP shared info about Arar
The RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service exchanged a considerable amount of information about Maher Arar, but it is unclear whether CSIS directly sent material to U.S. authorities.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-22 | Added: 2003-12-24

Maher Arar: Timeline
Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen born in Syria in 1970, came to Canada in 1987. After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in computer engineering, Arar worked in Ottawa as a telecommunications engineer. His wife Monia Mazigh has a PhD in mathematics.  [...]
LINK | Published: 2002-09-26 | Added: 2003-12-24

SIRC to examine CSIS's role in Arar case
SIRC today announced that it is conducting an in-depth review into the case of Maher Arar. Its report, to be prepared pursuant to Section 54 of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act, will investigate all aspects of CSIS's involvement in this  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-12-22 | Added: 2003-12-24

Watchdog to probe CSIS role in Arar case
An independent committee will investigate all aspects of how the Canadian Security Intelligence Service handled the case of Maher Arar.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-23 | Added: 2003-12-24

Canada can't strut on the cheap
Our diplomats not only make our case abroad, but also ferret out intelligence affecting our security and commercial interests.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-18 | Added: 2003-12-22

Wesley Wark
With remarkable stealth, Paul Martin and his team developed, and have now unveiled, a surprising and ambitious security agenda. It will take some time to feel its full impact, but Mr. Martin clearly intends to address the many deficiencies in Canada's  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-12-17 | Added: 2003-12-22

Canadians' Culture of Tolerance Is Tested by Cases Against Arabs
The cases of Almrei and other Canadian immigrants of Arab descent underscore the tensions in a larger debate in Canada about how to deal with immigrants accused of involvement in terrorism. Canadians pride themselves on ideals of tolerance, inclusion  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-12-17 | Added: 2003-12-17

Imagery Analyst
Proven ability in researching, analysing, synthesizing information and writing in-depth reports and analyses for internal and external audiences, with emphasis on the fields of defence or intelligence.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-16 | Added: 2003-12-16

Canada Launches System to Nab Terrorists
The Canadian military has signed a $3.1-million deal to create a deep-sea "tripwire" system to catch smugglers, terrorists or others trying to approach Canada's coasts illegally.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-15 | Added: 2003-12-15

Security agency won't mirror U.S. operation, McLellan says
But as Ms. McLellan emphasized in an interview yesterday, her new ministry is not the mirror image of the one south of the border. It is less sweeping, in one sense, because it does not encompass any immigration functions, a reflection of Canadians'  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-12-13 | Added: 2003-12-14

New watchdog to oversee RCMP intelligence
The federal government is creating a new watchdog to oversee the RCMP's intelligence activities, a move that comes amid growing concern about the behind-the-scenes role the Mounties play in the fight against terrorism.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-12 | Added: 2003-12-13

Release at The National Archives of further Security Service material
Eleventh Security Service release by the British Public Record Office. These files show the British reaction to Gouzenko's defection and the information he provided. The main file covering 1945-1947 is KV 2/1419. KV 2/1420 follows the development of the  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-11-14 | Added: 2003-12-13

Anti-terror law will be attacked in Supreme Court
Should police be able to force someone to testify at a secret investigative hearing to get information about possible terrorist plots? And should those hearings be open to the public and media if they are going to take place? Those are two of the issues  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-12-08 | Added: 2003-12-12

Arar lawyer urges new rules with U.S.
The Maher Arar case has made it essential for Canada to reach a new consensus on how Canadians should be treated abroad, Toronto lawyer Lorne Waldman said.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-06 | Added: 2003-12-12

Changes to Government
The Government of Canada must play a fundamental role in securing the public health and safety of Canadians, while ensuring that all Canadians continue to enjoy the benefits of an open society. The government will achieve these goals by making the  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-12-12 | Added: 2003-12-12

Government unveils public-safety department
The Paul Martin government has unveilled a sweeping new public-safety department -- and is creating a new agency -- that will add public-health functions and disaster response to policing and border security.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-12 | Added: 2003-12-12

Martin aims for change as new Canadian leader
Alberta's Anne McLellan, currently health minister, becomes deputy prime minister and in charge of a new portfolio, internal or national security, intended to mirror the U.S. Homeland Security Department.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-12 | Added: 2003-12-12

Martin cabinet takes shape
Mr. Martin plans to set up at least two big new ministries to combine the tasks of several current departments, including a public security portfolio to oversee the RCMP, CSIS and border and port security.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-11 | Added: 2003-12-12

Martin plans domestic security unit
Canada will develop a comprehensive national security policy to deal with the continuing threat of terrorism, says prime minister-to-be Paul Martin. The new approach will ensure greater co-ordination between the military, police, intelligence agencies,  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-11-16 | Added: 2003-12-12

CPC Initiates Complaint into RCMP Conduct in Relation to Maher Arar
The Chair of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP, Ms. Shirley Heafey, today announced that she is initiating a complaint into the RCMP conduct in relation to the deportation and detention of Mr. Maher Arar.
LINK | Published: 2003-10-23 | Added: 2003-12-11

Dhaka rejects Canadian intelligence report
The government yesterday rejected a Canadian intelligence report that Bangladesh may be emerging as a 'haven for Islamic terrorists' in South Asia.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-11 | Added: 2003-12-11

Hamas may have chemical weapons
The Palestinian terrorist group that allegedly recruited a Canadian to carry out attacks in North America may be developing chemical weapons, says a newly released Canadian intelligence report.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-10 | Added: 2003-12-11

Terrorist hearings law questioned
A federal law allowing secret court hearings into terrorist cases undermines the constitutional rights of witnesses and turns judges into police agents, the Supreme Court of Canada was told Wednesday.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-10 | Added: 2003-12-11

CSIS spies want improved briefings, training
Canadian spies have quietly told their bosses at CSIS they require more information about the "ethnic peculiarities and traits" of the suspected terrorists they're shadowing, an internal study reveals.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-09 | Added: 2003-12-10

CSIS Report on Zundel, 2003
CSIS believes Ernst Christof Freidrich Zündel is inadmissible on security grounds for engaging in terrorism; being a danger to the security of Canada; engaging in acts of violence that would or might endanger the lives or safety of persons in Canada;  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-05-01 | Added: 2003-12-08

B.Sc. (Hons.) Intelligence, Security and Terrorism Studies
The aims of the course are to provide an opportunity for students to: Increase their evaluative, critical thinking and problem-solving skills in intelligence, security and terrorism studies and to be able to apply these skills in their profession;  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-01-01 | Added: 2003-12-04

Former terror suspect's lawyer near tears, quits cases over death threats
The Toronto lawyer representing former terror suspect Abdurahman Khadr was close to tears Thursday as he announced he would no longer handle such cases because he had received a death threat he's taking seriously.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-04 | Added: 2003-12-04

Lawyer quits terror cases after death threat
Fighting for his composure, lawyer Rocco Galati said Thursday that he will drop all of his terrorism-related cases after a death threat that he said he believes came from an intelligence agency.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-04 | Added: 2003-12-04

Passport office takes blame in Ressam case
A government review of the Ahmed Ressam investigation has concluded that weaknesses at the Passport Office allowed the Algerian terrorist to go undetected in Canada as he plotted a major bombing attack.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-04 | Added: 2003-12-04

Shadow of CSIS will follow Khadr
Although Abdurahman Khadr hopes to slip quietly into a life of high school courses and part-time work, it'll likely be with an entourage of security agents in tow. "He's going to be watched, that's for sure, 100 per cent. The current law under the  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-12-03 | Added: 2003-12-04

Time Right for Review of Canada's National Security Policy says Federal Solicitor General Wayne Easter
Federal Solicitor General Wayne Easter said today in a speech to a forum discussing Canada/U.S. relations that it is time for a substantive review of Canada's national security policy.
LINK | Published: 2003-12-04 | Added: 2003-12-04

Time to consider need for national security agency, says solicitor general
It's time to consider the creation of a centralized national security agency, perhaps something like the American homeland security department, Solicitor General Wayne Easter said Thursday.
HTML | Published: 2003-12-04 | Added: 2003-12-04

Anti-terror laws ripe for review
The new laws have clauses mandating parliamentary scrutiny after five years. Why wait? The Commons justice and human rights committee can hold hearings on the new laws' impact. We should know by now of the laws' strengths and weaknesses. Any law made  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-12-01 | Added: 2003-12-01

Canadian Foreign Intelligence Capability - Bibliography
Bibliography of an MA thesis addressing the issue of a Canadian foreign intelligence capability.
PDF | Published: 2001-11-01 | Added: 2003-11-30

Historical Declassification and Access to Information: A Bureaucrat's Nightmare
Information about intelligence aspects of military activities is very difficult to find in the open domain and what is provided through open sources might be regarded as suspect.
PDF | Published: 2002-11-06 | Added: 2003-11-30

Martin likely to dismantle HRDC
Government insiders also say Treasury Board officials are preparing a plan to create a new security department that would be in charge of Canada Customs, the Coast Guard, emergency preparedness, the RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service.  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-11-26 | Added: 2003-11-27

Paul Martin may dismantle HRDC: report
According to the Post, Martin is also expected to follow the lead of the United States and establish a new Homeland Security department. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security was created in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-11-26 | Added: 2003-11-27

Spies, not Soothsayers: Canadian Intelligence After 9/11
Within Canada, intelligence is usually taken to mean security intelligence, which is designed to be preventive. Whether it is countering espionage, subversion, or terrorism, the structures, equipment and activities of intelligence organizations should  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-11-26 | Added: 2003-11-27

Arar to sue Syria, Jordan
Maher Arar has launched a suit against the governments of Syria and Jordan, and is seeking $25 million in punitive damages.
HTML | Published: 2003-11-25 | Added: 2003-11-26

What's a little torture between trading partners?
As the ever-practical Wayne Easter, Canada's solicitor-general, pointed out, if we're not willing to co-operate with the Americans on "national security issues" we're going to mess up our economic relationship, and our livelihood is at stake.
HTML | Published: 2003-11-25 | Added: 2003-11-26

Le SCRS n'aurait joué aucun rôle dans l'affaire Arar
L'organisme responsable de la surveillance des activités du Service canadien de renseignement de sécurité (SCRS) affirme avoir obtenu l'assurance que l'agence n'avait pas été impliquée dans la détention de Maher Arar par les autorités américaines et  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-11-23 | Added: 2003-11-24

Canada could be next as terrorists target U.S. allies and assets says report
Attacks like the bombing of the British consulate in Istanbul on Thursday could take place in Canada as terrorists target coalition partners in the war on Iraq, an RCMP intelligence report suggests.
HTML | Published: 2003-11-20 | Added: 2003-11-23

CSIS had no role in Arar's detention, says spy watchdog
The watchdog that oversees the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has received personal assurances from the head of the spy agency that it had no role in the detention of Maher Arar by U.S. authorities or his deportation to Syria.
HTML | Published: 2003-11-23 | Added: 2003-11-23

Intelligence Analyst: Radiologist And Nuclear Warfare
The Department of National Defence and the Operational Research Division are presently recruiting a Defence Scientist (DS) to work in the Directorate of Strategic Intelligence, as a Radiological and Nuclear Warfare Intelligence Analyst.
HTML | Published: 2003-11-21 | Added: 2003-11-21

U.S. trusted Syria's assurances on Arar: Ashcroft
U.S. Attorney-General John Ashcroft says the Bush administration received — and believed — assurances from Syria that it would not torture Maher Arar before deporting the Ottawa man to that Middle Eastern country.
HTML | Published: 2003-11-21 | Added: 2003-11-21

The Arar Case: Canadian Hyprocrisy
The rush of politicians to embrace the cause of Maher Arar, the Canadian who was imprisoned and tortured in Syria, is a wondrous display of Canadian hypocrisy. According to U.S. sources, Arar's name was passed to American law enforcement agencies by the  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-11-19 | Added: 2003-11-19

Arar case 'embarrassment' to U.S.
Maher Arar's treatment was described here yesterday as a symbol of post-9/11 excess in this country by a human rights group seeking the ouster of U.S. Attorney-General John Ashcroft.
HTML | Published: 2003-11-18 | Added: 2003-11-18

Canada says deportation case could hurt U.S. ties
A Canadian cabinet minister said on Tuesday that Ottawa may limit its intelligence sharing with Washington because of widespread concerns over the case of a man who was deported to Syria by U.S. agents.
HTML | Published: 2003-11-18 | Added: 2003-11-18

Arar story brews up a storm in Canada
The case of Maher Arar, the Syrian-born Canadian citizen, who was arrested in New York, bundled off to Syria to be jailed and tortured for a year for no apparent reason, is turning out to be a real political humdinger for Prime Minister Jean Chretien,  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-11-17 | Added: 2003-11-17

Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act
The Service shall collect, by investigation or otherwise, to the extent that it is strictly necessary, and analyse and retain information and intelligence respecting activities that may on reasonable grounds be suspected of constituting threats to the  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-04-30 | Added: 2003-11-15

Fresh light on top spy Philby
Secret files made public for the first time today shed fresh light on the role played by British double agent Kim Philby in one of the biggest espionage scandals of the Cold War, showing he was entrusted with analysing the impact of a senior Soviet  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-11-14 | Added: 2003-11-14

Canadian 'torture victim' highlights US-Syrian cooperation
The Canadian government's discomfort over the case of a man deported to Syria by US agents deepened on Wednesday when legislators and major newspapers demanded an inquiry into what role Canada's police may have played in the affair. Maher Arar said on  [...]
TEXT | Published: 2003-11-11 | Added: 2003-11-12

Foreign spies may have stolen Arar document
Solicitor General Wayne Easter raised the prospect yesterday that foreign intelligence agencies operating in Canada obtained a rental lease for the former Ottawa home of Maher Arar through illegal means, which led to his deportation to a Syrian prison  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-11-08 | Added: 2003-11-08

'Now, let me tell you who I am'
Statement of Maher Arar, Wednesday, November 05, 2003.
HTML | Published: 2003-11-06 | Added: 2003-11-08

Man says CIA sent him to Syria for torture
Canadian says the CIA detained him last year in New York as a suspected terrorist and then sent him to Syria, where he was tortured for 10 months.
HTML | Published: 2003-11-05 | Added: 2003-11-07

Meet the French terror connection
New investigations in Canada showed the existence of Jihad cells in Ontario and Quebec. But the Canadian police and the Canadian intelligence and security service have great difficulties in learning who is a ''wannabe'' and who is for real.
HTML | Published: 2003-11-02 | Added: 2003-11-03

Balkan crime groups pose new threat: RCMP
Underworld crime groups based in the war-ravaged Balkans are muscling into Canada, attracted by the huge profits to be made in the drug- and migrant-smuggling trades, says a classified RCMP report.
HTML | Published: 2003-10-29 | Added: 2003-10-30

Global spy role grows: CSIS head
Just where Canadian spies are at work around the world, Ward Elcock won't say. But the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) admits this much. Canadian intelligence officers are abroad.
HTML | Published: 2003-10-27 | Added: 2003-10-29

Analyst, Media Alert and Ops
The Threat Management Centre is seeking motivated, responsible and reliable individuals to serve as threat management analysts.
HTML | Published: 2003-10-24 | Added: 2003-10-28

El Al missile threat real
The missile threat that diverted an El Al flight from Toronto to Montreal Thursday was gaining weight Sunday as Canadian police traced the origins and destination of a German-made rocket launcher.
HTML | Published: 2003-10-26 | Added: 2003-10-28

Islamic Jihad coming to Canada, CSIS fears
Canada's intelligence service has warned police that members of one of the deadliest terrorist groups in the Middle East may try to infiltrate Canada to set up a support base, a newly released report reveals.
HTML | Published: 2003-10-22 | Added: 2003-10-22

Appearance by Ward Elcock, Director CSIS at the CASIS Conference
The CSIS Act has survived a number of major operational tests over the last two decades and has assured the human rights of Canadians in the process. CSIS is a vastly different organization over the one that existed in 1984, and at 20 years old, is an  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-10-20 | Added: 2003-10-20

Counter-terror measures still needed
Canada's intelligence chief stepped out of the shadows yesterday to warn that despite "some successes" in the war on terrorism, al-Qaeda and other extremist groups are proving themselves a persistent foe.
HTML | Published: 2003-10-18 | Added: 2003-10-20

CSIS admits to spying abroad
Canadian spies have been conducting "covert" operations in foreign countries to gather information about threats to national security, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service admitted for the first time on the weekend. "Events have increasingly  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-10-20 | Added: 2003-10-20

Does Canada Need a Foreign Intelligence Agency?
The report concludes that there are compelling reasons for Canada to establish an independent foreign intelligence service. The changed intelligence priorities of Canada and its allies mean that we can no longer rely exclusively on existing capabilities  [...]
PDF | Published: 2003-03-01 | Added: 2003-10-20

Integrated National Security Assessment Centre (INSAC)
One of the many lessons learned from the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States was the importance of information sharing. In response to this need, an Integrated National Security Assessment Centre (INSAC) was created.
LINK | Published: 2003-10-16 | Added: 2003-10-20

New intelligence team to counter terrorism threats
The federal government has created a new security centre to step up the country's protection against a terrorist attack, Solicitor-General Wayne Easter announced yesterday.
HTML | Published: 2003-10-17 | Added: 2003-10-20

Terror risk in Canada real: Experts
Country facing `persistent, evolving threats'. Intelligence panel ponders grim scenarios.
HTML | Published: 2003-10-20 | Added: 2003-10-20

U.S. consulted RCMP on Arar arrest
The federal government has acknowledged for the first time in heavily edited documents that the United States consulted the RCMP before Maher Arar was arrested and deported to Syria where he spent a year in jail without charges.
HTML | Published: 2003-10-18 | Added: 2003-10-20

Notes for a Speech by the Honourable Wayne Easter Solicitor General Of Canada at the CASIS Conference
We set about to reinforce our national security system to the tune of eight billion dollars. We created integrated national security enforcement teams in major Canadian cities, bringing together the RCMP, CSIS, Customs, Immigration and other law  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-10-16 | Added: 2003-10-17

Solicitor General Announces New Integrated National Security Assessment Center (INSAC)
Solicitor General Wayne Easter today announced that a new terrorism assessment centre has been established to enhance the capability of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to inform the Government of Canada regarding threats to national  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-10-16 | Added: 2003-10-17

Wesley Wark
Two years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, momentum is building for a public inquiry into the work of our security and intelligence agencies. It took the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen detained by U.S. authorities and deported to Syria,  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-10-10 | Added: 2003-10-11

Russia shares landmine info with Canadian ISAF troops
Moscow is prepared to provide intelligence to Canada to help avert attacks such as the land mine blast that killed two Canadian peacekeepers in Kabul last week, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Monday.
TEXT | Published: 2003-10-09 | Added: 2003-10-09

Solicitor general refuses inquiry
Solicitor-General Wayne Easter has ruled out a public inquiry to determine how Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, was deported from the United States and jailed for 374 days in a Damascus prison without charges.
HTML | Published: 2003-10-07 | Added: 2003-10-08

Retired Canadian intelligence officer tries hand at Sask municipal politics
Six years after he was named as the operative in a bogus spy scandal involving Quebec separatists in Washington, retired lieutenant-colonel Ray Taylor is out in his small-town Saskatchewan neighbourhood shaking hands and kissing babies.
HTML | Published: 2003-10-07 | Added: 2003-10-07

Why the U.S. sent Canadian suspect to Syria may never be known: spy expert
A leading expert on international espionage says Canadians are unlikely to ever learn the full story of how Maher Arar wound up languishing in a Syrian military prison for more than year.
HTML | Published: 2003-10-06 | Added: 2003-10-06

Four terrorist fronts at work in Canada: secret report
A "secret" list of terrorist fronts operating in Canada was tabled in the House of Commons yesterday by the Opposition, which demanded to know why the organizations have not been outlawed under Ottawa's anti-terror law.
HTML | Published: 2003-10-01 | Added: 2003-10-02

Foreign Intelligence Division
Staff of the Foreign Intelligence Division.
TEXT | Published: 2003-09-18 | Added: 2003-09-18

Pakistani detainee ordered deported
A Pakistani man being investigated as a possible member of an al-Qaeda sleeper cell was ordered deported yesterday after admitting he obtained his Canadian student visa through misrepresentation.
HTML | Published: 2003-09-13 | Added: 2003-09-14

32 Canadian Brigade Group
Presentation of the 32 Canadian Brigade Group, including the 2 Intelligence Company.
LINK | Published: 2001-09-19 | Added: 2003-09-09

33 Canadian Brigade Group
Presentation of the 33 Canadian Brigade Group, including the 2 Intelligence Platoon.
LINK | Published: 2001-09-19 | Added: 2003-09-09

A Strategic Perspective for the Inspector General of CSIS
This paper seeks to respond to evolving circumstances by articulating a strategic perspective for the OIG that will allow it to fulfil its statutory responsibilities efficiently and effectively during the coming decade.
LINK | Published: 2002-04-10 | Added: 2003-09-09

A2 Intelligence
The A2 is the Commander's principal advisor and staff officer on Intelligence matters. A2 is responsible to operate a peace time Intelligence Centre, and provide stafff or AOC and ACC. The A2 provides guidance and direction, including career planning  [...]
LINK | Published: 2002-07-15 | Added: 2003-09-09

Air Reserve Qualifications
Recruiting information for intelligence officers in the Canadian Forces Air Reserve.
LINK | Published: 2002-07-17 | Added: 2003-09-09

Camp-X
Unofficially known as Camp X, the paramilitary training installation was officially known by various names: as S25-1-1 by the RCMP (the Royal Canadian Mounted Police file name), as Project-J by the Canadian military, and as STS-103 (Special Training  [...]
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Canada - United States Defence Relations
Following the events of September 11, 2001, the Government of Canada responded to requests from the U.S. for military assistance, ranging from intelligence-sharing and vigilance as part of our participation in NORAD, to the deployment of CF personnel  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-01-08 | Added: 2003-09-09

Canada Customs and Revenue Agency
Official site of Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies
CASIS is a nonpartisan, voluntary association established in 1985. Its principal purpose is to provide informed debate in Canada on security and intelligence issues. Membership is open and currently includes academics, concerned citizens, government  [...]
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Canadian Intelligence Agencies
Information on Canadian intelligence agencies by the Federation of American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Official site of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Information on the Canadian Security Intelligence Service by the Federation of American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

CIC's Role in Public Safety
While our department had an intelligence function before September 11, CIC has formalized this function within the Intelligence Branch to provide a focal point for intelligence gathering, analysis, and the sharing of intelligence on immigration cases  [...]
LINK | Published: 2002-09-05 | Added: 2003-09-09

Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Official site of Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP
Official site of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Communications Security Establishment
Official site of the Communications Security Establishment.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Communications Security Establishment
Information on the Communications Security Establishment by the Federation of American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program.
LINK | Published: 2002-07-31 | Added: 2003-09-09

Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Official site of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Department of Justice Canada
Official site of the Department of Justice Canada.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Department of National Defence
Official site of the Department of National Defence.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
Official site of the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Departments and Agencies Listed in Schedule I, Part II of the Public Service Staff Relations Act
Department or Agency Name: Communications Security Establishment, Organization Code: CSE, Ministerial Affiliation: DND, Number of Employees: 1153, Remarks: Created in 1975.
LINK | Published: 2003-11-06 | Added: 2003-09-09

Inspector General, Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Official site of the Inspector General of CSIS.
LINK | Published: 2002-04-10 | Added: 2003-09-09

Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness
Official site of the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Office of the Communications Security Establishment Commissioner
Official site of the Communications Security Establishment Commissioner.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Privy Council Office
Official site of the Privy Council Office.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Privy Council Office
Information on the Privy Council Office by the Federation of American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Official site of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Information on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police by the Federation of American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Security and Intelligence Secretariat
Official site of the Security and Intelligence Secretariat.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Security Intelligence Review Committee
Official site of the Security Intelligence Review Committee.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Security Intelligence Review Committee
Information on the Security Intelligence Review Committee by the Federation of American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program.
LINK | Published: 1997-12-23 | Added: 2003-09-09

The Canadian Intelligence Community: Control and Accountability (Follow-up of Recommendations)
December 1998 report on the follow-up of recommendations made in the November 1996 report on the control and accountability of the Canadian intelligence community.
LINK | Published: 1998-12-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

The Gouzenko Affair and Camp-X
Gouzenko and his family were taken from Ottawa and transported to the secret and secure Camp-X where they would remain throughout the Royal Commission Inquiry that was mandated to investigate the allegations regarding his activities.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

The Limits of Current Policy
The recent caution by the Deputy Prime Minister, John Manley, that the creation of a new agency is not something to be rushed into and that “…it is one of those deeper issues which requires a lot more careful thought and consideration.
LINK | Published: 2002-05-21 | Added: 2003-09-09

The Literature of Intelligence: Canada
Canadian section of The Literature of Intelligence: A Bibliography of Materials, with Essays, Reviews, and Comments.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

Transport Canada
Official site of Transport Canada.
LINK | Published: 1901-01-01 | Added: 2003-09-09

CSIS Counter-Terrorism
Submission to the Special Committee of the Senate on Security and Intelligence by Ward Elcock, Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Canadians deserve to know what we believe the terrorist threat to be today - both globally and to  [...]
PDF | Published: 1998-06-24 | Added: 2003-08-06

The Royal Commission on Espionage, 1946-9: A Case Study in the mobilization of the Canadian Civil Liberties Movement
The commission was formed in response to the defection of a Russian cipher clerk and investigated the existence of a Russian-led spy ring that had recruited several Canadian civil servants into disclosing secret information.
PDF | Published: 2000-09-01 | Added: 2003-08-06

Canada’s Foreign Intelligence Requirements: Threats, Capabilities and Options
Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies inaugural conference in Ottawa on 12 June 2002.
PDF | Published: 2002-06-01 | Added: 2003-08-05

Canadian Forces Units
Army, Air Force and Navy units within the Canadian Forces.
PDF | Published: 2003-07-07 | Added: 2003-08-05

Canadian Security and Military Preparedness: Excerpts
The Committee learned that the operations of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service are basically limited to the collection of intelligence in Canada. Except for the investigation of immigration cases, it lacks the resources to routinely operate in  [...]
PDF | Published: 2002-02-01 | Added: 2003-08-05

Contemporary Threats, Future Tasks: Canadian Intelligence and the Challenges of Global Security
Canada’s intelligence community consists of a complex web of functionally differentiated agencies for the collection, assessment and protection of security-relevant knowledge on behalf of this country’s foreign policy, security and defence  [...]
PDF | Published: 2003-08-05 | Added: 2003-08-05

Departmental Plans and Priorities: Trade, Economic and Environmental Policy
Collecting, Evaluating and Using Foreign Intelligence in Policy Making. The Department will undertake more frequent reviews of its intelligence-gathering priorities. Also, the provision of intelligence will become more client-driven; to this  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-08-04 | Added: 2003-08-05

International Security and Cooperation: Planned Results and Activities
Support the conduct of foreign and trade policy by assuring the collection, evaluation, analysis and dissemination of appropriate foreign intelligence to meet the policy making and operational requirements of decision makers throughout the  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-08-04 | Added: 2003-08-05

Report on Plans and Priorities 2003-2004
Quality Policy Advice and Intelligence to Government: The Department will collect, evaluate and contribute a broader range of foreign intelligence to support policy making across the federal government and other levels of government. Partners across all  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-08-05 | Added: 2003-08-05

Security Intelligence: A Risk Management Enterprise
There is no realistic number of intelligence personnel or financial resources that would ensure that all possible scenarios involving threats to national security at any given time are covered. The task of addressing the spectrum of potential threats  [...]
PDF | Published: 2002-10-24 | Added: 2003-08-05

Departmental Performance
Support the conduct of foreign and trade policy by assuring the collection, evaluation, analysis and dissemination of appropriate foreign intelligence to meet the policy-making and operational requirements of decision makers throughout the  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-08-04 | Added: 2003-08-04

Canadian elite unit operating in Afghanistan: Eggleton
Special forces belonging to Canada's JTF-2 commando unit are operating in Kandahar, making them the first Canadian troops to set foot in Afghanistan in the war on terrorism.
HTML | Published: 2001-12-19 | Added: 2003-07-31

Canadian special forces join war on terrorism
Members of a Canadian special forces unit have gone to the Middle East location to join the U.S.-led military campaign against terrorism.
HTML | Published: 2001-12-07 | Added: 2003-07-31

Summary Note from the Thinkers' Retreat on Security Challenges
Canada must improve its own intelligence capacity in order to better formulate its own security policy and reduce excessive dependence on intelligence from other countries.
LINK | Published: 2002-09-06 | Added: 2003-07-31

Anti-Terrorism Unit Efficient, But Low-Profile
The Canadian Armed Forces unit Joint Task Force 2 is a shadowy, highly skilled counter-terrorist force of undetermined size, based somewhere near Ottawa with an anonymous commanding officer. And that's the way the military wants to keep it.
TEXT | Published: 1995-04-05 | Added: 2003-07-30

Canada's Counter-Terrorism Arrangements
If the on-scene police commander feels that he needs to have recourse to JTF-2 to resolve the situation, he will have to convince his commanding officer that police resources will not be enough and the commanding officer, in turn, will have to convince  [...]
HTML | Published: 1994-05-27 | Added: 2003-07-30

Canada's Elite Secret Army
The most secret, unpublicized and least known branch of the Canadian military is also its most controversial and, arguably at the root of many of the problems that have beset our Armed Forces in the past decade. It's something called JTF2.
HTML | Published: 2001-07-15 | Added: 2003-07-30

Defence Highlights: Budget 2001
Budget 2001 provides $119 million (between now and fiscal year 2006-07) to enhance the capacity of Joint Task Force 2. The additional funding will improve JTF 2's ability to respond to incidents both at home and abroad.
HTML | Published: 2002-12-10 | Added: 2003-07-30

Dwyer Hill Training Center
Map of the location of JTF 2 Dwyer Hill Training Centre in Goulbourn, near Ottawa.
JPG | Published: 2003-01-01 | Added: 2003-07-30

Eggleton confirms Canadian troops operating in Afghanistan
For the first time Defence Minister Art Eggleton is offering some details about the use of Joint Task Force Two. JTF-2 is Canada's top secret commando unit. Its members are the first Canadian troops in Afghanistan.
TEXT | Published: 2001-12-21 | Added: 2003-07-30

JTF2 at close range
Like a photo slowly emerging under a darkroom light, Joint Task Force Two is becoming visible to the public eye.
LINK | Published: 2002-03-08 | Added: 2003-07-30

JTF2: Canada's super-secret commandos
If truth is one of the first casualties of war, secrecy is one of war's first exigencies. There is no better instance of this than Canada's elite commando unit, which is so secretive Canadian authorities are hesitant even to refer to it as an elite  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-01-08 | Added: 2003-07-30

JTF2 set to expand Ottawa base
The Canadian Forces has decided against moving its controversial and secretive commando installation from Ottawa to Petawawa, and will instead began full-scale expansion of the base at its present Dwyer Hill location.
HTML | Published: 2003-07-22 | Added: 2003-07-28

CIA foiled al-Qaeda plot to attack Ottawa
A network of al-Qaeda agents was rounded up before it could carry out a plot to attack the American Embassy in Ottawa, U.S. intelligence sources say. The Central Intelligence Agency was alerted to the al-Qaeda conspiracy by Syria's intelligence service,  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-07-25 | Added: 2003-07-25

Canadian satellite poses terrorist risk: CSIS report
Canadian officials scoffed last week when the U.S. military said a powerful new satellite that takes photographs from space could be used by terrorists, but a report published by none other than the federal government itself argues the identical point.  [...]
HTML | Published: 1999-02-22 | Added: 2003-07-24

A tale of spies, sex and a bizarre Saudi princess
Gary Ogaick, a first secretary at the Canadian embassy in Riyadh, conducted an unauthorized spying operation in the Middle East to gather personal information about a wealthy Saudi Arabian prince and his wife. Unbeknownst to his superiors, Mr. Ogaick  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-04-19 | Added: 2003-07-15

Claims of rogue spy unheeded for months
The Department of Foreign Affairs waited 21 months before informing the RCMP about allegations that one of its diplomats was running an unauthorized espionage operation to get sexually compromising information about a Saudi princess. The allegations  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-05-05 | Added: 2003-07-15

CSIS and CFIA Acts
A side-by-side comparison of the 1984 Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act and the 2003 proposed Canadian Foreign Intelligence Agency Act (Bill C-409).
PDF | Published: 2003-07-14 | Added: 2003-07-14

Bill C-409: An Act to establish the Canadian Foreign Intelligence Agency
The functions of the Agency are to be performed only to safeguard the interest of Canada’s sovereignty, security, democratic integrity, international relations or economic well-being and only to the extent that those matters are affected by the  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-03-17 | Added: 2003-07-11

Edited Hansard Number 071
Mr. David Pratt (Nepean-Carleton, Lib.) moved for leave to introduce Bill C-409, an act to establish the Canadian Foreign Intelligence Agency.
LINK | Published: 2003-03-17 | Added: 2003-07-11

Espionage 101: Do you have what it takes to be a spy?
What does it take to become part of the intriguing world of Canadian surveillance and intelligence? "An interest in international affairs, a fascination with what an intelligence organization does: the mystery behind it, the secrecy that surrounds it,"  [...]
LINK | Published: 2000-01-21 | Added: 2003-07-11

Let's create a Canadian foreign intelligence service
We could pay a steep economic, financial, diplomatic price if we're not taken seriously in Washington. How then to get noticed there? A brilliant solution, I believe, is the one proposed by Norman Spector, former top aide to Brian Mulroney and now a  [...]
LINK | Published: 2002-11-17 | Added: 2003-07-11

Secret Report Shows China Using Canada To Infiltrate US
Canada is the launch-pad for a multi-billion dollar assault by The People's Republic of China (PRC) against the United States. A top-secret report reveals that "a dangerous consortium of Chinese triads, agents of the Chinese Secret Intelligence Service  [...]
LINK | Published: 2002-02-09 | Added: 2003-07-11

The dirty side of Canadian intelligence
It has surfaced that the Canadian intelligence service CSIS, which closely follows Kurds that apply for political asylum in that country, also employs numerous illegal methods, including following persons with cars and secretly searching their  [...]
HTML | Published: 2000-05-15 | Added: 2003-07-11

Population Affiliation Report
Communications Security Establishment, Number of Employees: 1102
HTML | Published: 2003-04-23 | Added: 2003-07-08

The Canadian Security and Intelligence Community: Helping Keep Canada and Canadians Safe and Secure
The Canadian security and intelligence community is a key asset in the government’s efforts to protect the interests of Canada and Canadians and to assure public safety. It also helps Canada contribute to global security. This brochure describes the  [...]
LINK | Published: 2001-05-01 | Added: 2003-07-08

CFS Leitrim Detachment Gander
CFS Leitrim Detachment's remote operation operates and maintains signals intelligence collection and geo-location facilities in support of the Canadian cryptologic program.
LINK | Published: 2003-03-31 | Added: 2003-07-07

Canada bars journalist 'spy'
A Chinese journalist covering the UN in New York City has been blocked from resettling in Canada because security officials claim he's a sleeper agent who'd spy on groups here.
HTML | Published: 2003-06-25 | Added: 2003-06-25

Threats and Responses: Ottawa's Tactics
Ward Elcock, director of Canadian Security Intelligence Service, explains reasoning behind Canada's less invasive approach to terror prevention; says rather than detain or arrest suspects at first blush, Canadian spies watch them, periodically interview  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-03-13 | Added: 2003-06-25

Islamic extremists top Canadian terror threat, Easter says
Islamic extremists are still the No. 1 security threat to Canada, Solicitor-General Wayne Easter says. In a statement to the Commons, Mr. Easter said that despite the work of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service "terrorist networks are still  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-06-05 | Added: 2003-06-05

Quotes related to the need for a Canadian foreign intelligence service
We don't have a dedicated foreign intelligence agency -- something that would be worth having.
TEXT | Published: 2003-06-05 | Added: 2003-06-05

Statement On National Security
But the global security environment constantly changes and we must be aware of that. We must stand on guard against these dangers, and adapt to the challenges they pose. We must make sure we have the best people, the best information and the most  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-06-05 | Added: 2003-06-05

Recent media coverage on CSIS' activities prior to the Air India bombing of 1985
Any suggestion that CSIS would not have done everything in its power to prevent such a tragedy from occurring is absurd.
LINK | Published: 2003-06-02 | Added: 2003-06-04

Moroccan al-Qaeda agent, CSIS says
A Moroccan native facing deportation is a "dormant agent" of al-Qaeda who could plan terrorist attacks at any time, says Canada's spy agency.
HTML | Published: 2003-05-27 | Added: 2003-05-27

Terrorism, Law & Democracy How is Canada Changing Following September 11?
This paper provides a brief over of the main issues raised by panellists and presenters during the conference entitled Terrorism, Law & Democracy: How is Canada Changing Following September 11? The conference was attended by representatives from the  [...]
PDF | Published: 2002-03-26 | Added: 2003-05-07

I don't think I'm being negative
We don't have a dedicated foreign intelligence agency -- something that would be worth having. I think we need to increase our ability. I think we can do it within the existing framework. CSIS does have some foreign capacity…
HTML | Published: 2003-04-30 | Added: 2003-04-30

CSIS Organizational Structure
Chart of the administrative structure of CSIS.
JPG | Published: 2003-04-29 | Added: 2003-04-29

Perilous pillow talk
In Canada, news surfaced this week that a senior CSIS agent, Theresa Sullivan, was fired last year after falling in love with a source and carrying on a relationship for nearly two years.
HTML | Published: 2003-04-26 | Added: 2003-04-29

Venona Decrypt: The Gouzenko Affair page 1
Page one of a Venona decrypt from Moscow to London related to Igor Gouzenko's defection and dated 21 September 1945.
GIF | Published: 2003-03-31 | Added: 2003-03-31

Venona Decrypt: The Gouzenko Affair page 2
Page two of a Venona decrypt from Moscow to London related to Igor Gouzenko's defection and dated 21 September 1945.
GIF | Published: 2003-03-31 | Added: 2003-03-31

Canadiens sous uniforme étranger?
Le conservateur David Price a repris ses accusations sur la présence de forces spéciales canadiennes au Kosovo, ajoutant que ces troupes pourraient agir sous des uniformes américains ou britanniques.
JPG | Published: 1999-04-21 | Added: 2003-03-09

Un autochtone espionnait pour la police et le SCRS
Le service de renseignement du gouvernement et la Police provinciale de l'Ontario étaient constamment informés que les autochtones qui occupaient le parc provincial d'Ipperwash n'étaient pas armés, a révélé un homme qui affairme que les deux services  [...]
JPG | Published: 1999-06-14 | Added: 2003-03-09

Les services de renseignement et les attentats de septembre 2001
Nous allons dans ce bref exposé nous limiter à répondre aux trois questions qu’on nous a soumises, à savoir (i) ce qui a changé à la suite des attentats; (ii) quelles leçons tirer de la crise et (iii) quelles sont les perspectives d’avenir.
PDF | Published: 2002-09-11 | Added: 2003-02-27

Budget 2003: Canada in the World
New security concerns have demanded action to keep our borders secure, while facilitating the legitimate flow of goods, services and people. In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the Government introduced a $7.7-billion package of measures to ensure  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-02-18 | Added: 2003-02-18

Defence Planning Guidance 1998: Resource Planning Levels
CSE Operating Budget (table 4B-11).
LINK | Published: 2000-01-07 | Added: 2003-02-17

Defence Planning Guidance 2001: Resource Planning Levels
CSE Operating Budget (table 4B-53).
LINK | Published: 2002-09-20 | Added: 2003-02-17

Intelligence Analyst: Biological Warfare
The Department of National Defence and the Director General of Operational Research are presently recruiting a Defence Scientist (DS) to work in the Directorate of Strategic Intelligence, as a Biological Warfare Intelligence Analyst. The successful  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-02-08 | Added: 2003-02-08

Intelligence Analyst: Chemical Warfare
The Department of National Defence and the Director General of Operational Research are presently recruiting a Defence Scientist (DS) to work in the Directorate of Strategic Intelligence, as a Chemical Warfare Intelligence Analyst. The successful  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-02-08 | Added: 2003-02-08

Intelligence Analyst: Radiological And Nuclear Warfare
The Department of National Defence and the Director General of Operational Research are presently recruiting a Defence Scientist (DS) to work in the Directorate of Strategic Intelligence, as a Radiological and Nuclear Warfare Intelligence Analyst. The  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-02-08 | Added: 2003-02-08

Eastern and Southern Africa Intelligence Analyst
Challenge: Support for senior government decision makers, including the Prime Minister, Ministers and officials of Privy Council Office, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and other departments, through policy-neutral assessments of  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-02-05 | Added: 2003-02-05

National Press Club Newsmaker Breakfast
My Report focuses on the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency’s new "Big Brother" passenger database; the provisions of Bill C-17, the Public Safety Act; the "Lawful Access" proposals to enhance state powers to monitor our communications; the proposal for a  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-01-30 | Added: 2003-01-30

The Myth of Security at Canada's Airports
While it may be true that would-be terrorists will now divert their attention to alternate North American targets like power supplies, water supplies and the Internet, it would be foolish to gamble that one of our greatest vulnerabilities - our airways -  [...]
LINK | Published: 2003-01-21 | Added: 2003-01-21

Defence Scientist
The Department of National Defence and Defence R&D Canada are presently recruiting Defence Scientists (DS) to work in the Tactical Vehicle Systems Section at Defence R&D Canada - Suffield (DRDC Suffield). The succuessful individual will be part of a  [...]
HTML | Published: 2003-01-15 | Added: 2003-01-15

Des espions dans les aéroports
Une unité d'infiltration «complètement intransigeante» et baptisée l'«Équipe rouge» veillera à la droiture des agents de sécurité des aéroports canadiens dès janvier. Et c'est un Montréalais qui sera à sa tête.
HTML | Published: 2002-12-22 | Added: 2002-12-22

Canada's Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Program
In response to the events of September 11, 2001, CIC has restructured its intelligence activities and created a new Intelligence Branch. This restructuring is intended to focus and strengthen the effectiveness of CIC's intelligence activities.
LINK | Published: 2002-10-11 | Added: 2002-12-19

Government Response to the Report of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration
The creation this spring of the Intelligence Branch will improve CIC's ability to support the expanded role of immigration control officers. CIC will use threat and risk analyses to identify up front where it should apply resources. CIC is in the process  [...]
LINK | Published: 2002-11-01 | Added: 2002-12-19

September 11, 2001: A Year Later
The events of September 11 made all countries aware of the importance of sharing intelligence information. While our department had an intelligence function before September 11, an Intelligence Branch was recently created to provide a focal point for  [...]
HTML | Published: 2002-09-05 | Added: 2002-12-19

CSIS links Ottawa man to al-Qaeda
He presented himself as a struggling new Canadian who worked as a gas-station attendant and delivered pizzas, but according to a classified federal intelligence file, Mohamed Harkat of Ottawa lived out a secret existence as an al-Qaeda operative with  [...]
HTML | Published: 2002-12-17 | Added: 2002-12-17

Enquête sur le SCRS et Postes Canada
Le Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée mène actuellement une enquête relativement à des activités d'espionnage qu'auraient menées le Service canadien du renseignement et Postes Canada.
HTML | Published: 2002-12-17 | Added: 2002-12-17

Spy another day: They're back
If the Cold War is over and Russia is the West's new best friend, why did Ottawa expel two Russian diplomats for spying last month and why did Moscow retaliate this week by kicking out two Canadians? Why would the Russians still be spying on the West if  [...]
HTML | Published: 2002-12-13 | Added: 2002-12-17

Terrorists will target Canada
A secret RCMP intelligence brief on terrorism warns Canada will suffer terrorist attacks in the wake of any military action by the United States.
HTML | Published: 2002-12-10 | Added: 2002-12-10

La Russie expulse deux diplomates canadiens en poste à Moscou
La Russie a ordonné à deux diplomates canadiens de quitter le pays, en réponse à l'expulsion cette semaine par Ottawa de deux émissaires russes au Canada.
HTML | Published: 2002-12-07 | Added: 2002-12-07

Intelligence Branch celebrates 20 years
Established October 29, 1982, the Intelligence Branch perpetuates the Canadian Intelligence Corps, which stood up the same day in 1942. Intelligence operators and officers are employed in a number of roles in all environments.
PDF | Published: 2002-10-30 | Added: 2002-12-05

Art Eggleton envisage l'expansion de la force secrète antiterroriste
L'armée canadienne évalue la possibilité de faire prendre de l'expansion à sa force secrète antiterroriste JTF-2.
HTML | Published: 2001-10-04 | Added: 2002-11-27

Hommes de la JTF-2 et leurs prisonniers en Afghanistan
Picture of JTF 2 soldiers with their prisoners in Afghanistan.
JPG | Published: 2002-01-29 | Added: 2002-11-27

In the terrorism crunch, Canada has JTF2
In Canada, it is Joint Task Force Two, or JTF2. Defence Minister Art Eggleton mentioned JTF2 after the attacks on the World Trade Center as a resource Canada may offer in the war against terrorism. In December, Eggleton announced JTF2 was preparing to  [...]
HTML | Published: 2001-12-06 | Added: 2002-11-27

Joint Task Force Two - Canada's Secret Soldiers
It was a stunning allegation--that elite commandos were operating secretly on the ground in Kosovo, helping NATO planes choose targets. In this case, the soldiers are Canadians.
LINK | Published: 1999-04-22 | Added: 2002-11-27

Les forces spéciales canadiennes ont quitté l'Afghanistan
Les forces spéciales canadiennes, la discrète Joint Task Force 2, ont finalement quitté l'Afghanistan pour rentrer au bercail, a annoncé mercredi le ministre de la Défense, John McCallum.
HTML | Published: 2002-11-27 | Added: 2002-11-27

Les militaires canadiens ont procédé à des arrestations en Afghanistan
Les membres des forces spéciales canadiennes déployés en Afghanistan ont remis à l'armée américaine des hommes qu'ils avaient arrêtés.
HTML | Published: 2002-01-29 | Added: 2002-11-27

Un commando d'élite canadien se trouve à Kandahar
Un commando de 40 militaires de l'unité spéciale canadienne «JTF-2» se trouve depuis quelques jours à Kandahar, l'ancien fief des talibans. Ce sont les toutes premières troupes canadiennes à mettre le pied en Afghanistan.
HTML | Published: 2001-12-19 | Added: 2002-11-27

Supreme Court backs CSIS
Canada's spy agency may continue to impose a total blackout of information in its files about citizens based on national security concerns, the Supreme Court of Canada said yesterday. A 9-0 majority said that virtually any disclosure of such information  [...]
HTML | Published: 2002-11-21 | Added: 2002-11-22

What History Teaches: The Case of David Lewis
This paper will explore the activities of the RCMP Security Service with regard to David Lewis, a prominent, non-communist, Canadian politician, who died in 1981.
PDF | Published: 2002-09-27 | Added: 2002-11-17

Agencies with Security and Intelligence Roles (2002)
2002 chart of Canadian agencies with security and intelligence roles.
PDF | Published: 2002-11-15 | Added: 2002-11-15

9/11 and the Canadian Security & Intelligence Community
Canada is closer than any other country, both geographically and culturally, to the US. Here, the reverberations of 9/11 were powerful indeed, but Canada did not feel the impact in exactly the same way as the US did.
PDF | Published: 2002-09-26 | Added: 2002-11-13

Canada’s Access to Information Act and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Community
The Canadian Access Act was not promulgated with the specific intent of creating greater degrees of openness with regard to the activities of the Canadian security and intelligence community. But concerns about the clandestine world of intelligence were  [...]
PDF | Published: 2002-11-13 | Added: 2002-11-13

Canada's Foreign Intelligence Interview Program, 1953-1990
The Interview Program was established in 1953 as Canada's modest and cautious entry into the world of overt foreign intelligence HUMINT collection.
PDF | Published: 2002-11-07 | Added: 2002-11-13

Our Men in Havana: Washington and Canadian Intelligence on Castro's Cuba, 1959-1963
The present paper documents, for the first time, how the Canadian government provided intelligence on Cuba on a regular basis to the United States and other allies during the years following the Castro revolution.
PDF | Published: 2002-09-28 | Added: 2002-11-13

Speaking Notes for Margaret Bloodworth
To continue adapting to the changes we see unfolding, we need to learn some lessons from our past.
PDF | Published: 2002-09-27 | Added: 2002-11-13

The Gouzenko Affair Revisited: The Soviet Perspective
Thanks to archival documentation on the Gouzenko defection that has become available in Canada and the United States over the years, we have a reasonably clear (although by no means complete) picture of its repercussions in the West. But until recently  [...]
PDF | Published: 2002-11-13 | Added: 2002-11-13

Hezbollah uses Canada as base: CSIS
The terrorist group Hezbollah has been using Canada as an offshore base for raising money and purchasing supplies needed to carry out and videotape attacks against Israel. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents detail how Hezbollah has  [...]
HTML | Published: 2002-10-31 | Added: 2002-11-03

Intelligence and the Management of Risk
We need to be able to understand all of the threats in our environment, even those whose probability appears to be low, such as Chemical /Biological terrorism, but which would pose a tremendous risk to society if they were to materialise. This is what  [...]
PDF | Published: 2002-10-30 | Added: 2002-10-30

Joint Task Force Two (JTF 2) Personnel Section 98/99
JTF 2 is the CF Unit responsible for federal level counter-terrorist/hostage rescue operations. This mandate demand personnel who possess very specific personal attributes and capabilities and who can be trained to perform a diverse range of unique  [...]
HTML | Published: 1998-10-01 | Added: 2002-10-29

Economic Espionage
The era when traditional security relations overshadowed economic concerns has passed. Accelerating economic interdependence and international competition have emerged as major sources of tension and potential conflict among world powers. In this  [...]
LINK | Published: 1993-05-01 | Added: 2002-10-17

Economic Espionage (II)
Despite the high profile that the topic of economic espionage has enjoyed over the past few years, little progress appears to have been made in the actual analysis of the issue. Most treatments of the subject run through the same questions and arguments  [...]
LINK | Published: 1994-07-01 | Added: 2002-10-17

Canadian Security and Military Preparedness: The Government's Response
Through increased resources to equip and deploy more intelligence officers and investigative personnel, as well as improved coordination among law enforcement, intelligence and security agencies, we have taken the necessary steps to make our system even  [...]
PDF | Published: 2002-10-16 | Added: 2002-10-16

Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence Proceedings: Excerpts
The Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence met this day to examine and report on the need for a national security policy for Canada.
PDF | Published: 2002-06-03 | Added: 2002-09-07

Intelligence Analyst: Latin America and Carribean
Challenge: Support for senior government decision makers, including the Prime Ministers, Ministers and officials of PCO, DFAIT and other departments, through policy-neutral assessments of foreign political, economic, strategic and security issues  [...]
HTML | Published: 2002-08-26 | Added: 2002-08-26

Dare to be Challenged
JTF 2 is recruiting in all categories this year. Both regular force members and reservists can apply and a specialist allowance comes with the job.
PDF | Published: 2002-01-01 | Added: 2002-08-03

CSA Canada’s International Business Strategy: Excerpts
The Government's strategy in support to the space industry in dealing with these challenges is to develop, in consultation with industry, better mechanisms and practices for gathering and disseminating strategic and timely information concerning  [...]
LINK | Published: 2000-03-21 | Added: 2002-07-31

Foreign spy agency eyed
Canada has to think about setting up an international spy agency in light of the new global terrorist threat, says Foreign Affairs Minister John Manley. "We haven't accepted having an agency for international intelligence until now," he told a news  [...]
PDF | Published: 2001-10-05 | Added: 2002-07-31

Threats to Canada's critical infrastructure
This morning I am going to focus on the threats to Canada's critical infrastructure, how we are responding to those threats and the lessons the new organization I lead has learned from September 11th.
LINK | Published: 2001-12-06 | Added: 2002-07-31

Economic Espionage: Clandestine Methods Used to Disadvantage Canadian Interests
Economic espionage is damaging Canadian interests at home and abroad. This damage takes the form of lost contracts, jobs and markets, and overall, a diminished competitive advantage.
LINK | Published: 1999-06-01 | Added: 2002-07-22

History Of 1st Canadian Division Intelligence Company (1989-2000)
The role of 1 Cdn Div Int Coy is to provide combat intelligence support to 1 Cdn Div HQ. The Company has a peacetime establishment of 3 officers and 23 non-commissioned members.
LINK | Published: 2000-06-01 | Added: 2002-07-22

Market Research Centre Key to Unlocking Foreign Markets
In addition to operating the Market Research Centre, the newly formed Market Intelligence Division assists DFAIT's posts abroad to gather market intelligence and information. The Division works closely with National Sector Teams, associations and other  [...]
HTML | Published: 1997-04-09 | Added: 2002-07-22

National Interests, Security Policy and Intelligence
Coordinated threat analyses, advice and projected strategic options are fundamental to a sound and rapid government response to asymmetric threats. To provide this strategic orientation, the government needs the services of an independent National  [...]
LINK | Published: 2001-07-01 | Added: 2002-07-22

The Communications Security Establishment and the National Cryptologic Program
The Communications Security Establishment is mandated to acquire and provide foreign signals intelligence; provide advice, guidance and services to help ensure the protection of Government of Canada electronic information and information infrastructures;  [...]
LINK | Published: 2002-06-17 | Added: 2002-07-22

Budget 2001: Enhancing Security for Canadians
Budget 2001 builds on the Government’s long-term plan for a stronger economy and a more secure society, but it also responds to immediate economic and security concerns.
LINK | Published: 2001-12-10 | Added: 2002-07-18

Canada’s Law Enforcement & Intelligence Capabilities
In light of the tragic and barbaric terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11th, the Government of Canada has made national security our top priority. As part of our renewed focus on security, the federal government is currently reviewing  [...]
PDF | Published: 2002-07-18 | Added: 2002-07-18

New Technologies, Intelligence Sharing and Integrated Law Enforcement to Improve Safety and Security of Canadians
The Government of Canada today announced new measures to strengthen Canada's ability to prevent, detect and respond to existing and emerging national security threats.
LINK | Published: 2001-10-12 | Added: 2002-07-18

Securing Our Future: National Security and the Economy
According to Tony Campbell, a Canadian security analyst, intelligence gathering and analysis are assuming greater importance. He believes that Canada’s analytical capability is underfunded (the Canadian Security intelligence Service (CSIS) has had its  [...]
LINK | Published: 2001-11-01 | Added: 2002-07-18

Economic/Commercial Interests and Intelligence Services
The end of the Cold War accelerated the transformation of low politics into high politics: mercantile concerns, once subservient to ideological conflict, are today, from Tienanmen to Toronto, the primary motivators in foreign policy.
LINK | Published: 1995-07-01 | Added: 2002-07-17

Requests for classified information
Request for classified information related to the possible creation of a Canadian foreign intelligence service.
PDF | Published: 2002-07-17 | Added: 2002-07-17

Teaching Intelligence: New Centre Established
On 27 February 2002, Carleton University approved the establishment of the Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies (CCISS) as an interdisciplinary research unit dedicated to Intelligence Studies, with a particular focus on Canada's  [...]
LINK | Published: 2002-07-17 | Added: 2002-07-17

The Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies at Carleton University
The establishment of CCISS at Carleton University is intended to meet three vital and timely needs: (1) the promotion of academic research in Intelligence Studies at Carleton and across Canada; (2) the development and delivery of outreach programs for  [...]
LINK | Published: 2002-07-17 | Added: 2002-07-17

CSIS Public Reports: Excerpts
Excerpts from CSIS annual public reports related to foreign intelligence.
PDF | Published: 2002-07-16 | Added: 2002-07-16

Risk and the Intelligence Community
At the heart of the problem of reforming intelligence is an understanding of risk. But in the world of intelligence, risk comes with a plethora of meanings and implications, some better understood than others. There are at least three different  [...]
LINK | Published: 2002-07-11 | Added: 2002-07-11

Canadian Security and Military Preparedness
The objective of the Committee over the past seven months has been to make its members familiar with the issues and government officials associated with national security and defence, as well as with the opinions of a range of academic and  [...]
LINK | Published: 2002-02-01 | Added: 2002-07-01

CSIS Budget and Staff Increased says Federal Solicitor General Lawrence Macaulay
Federal Solicitor General Lawrence MacAulay today confirmed that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) will staff an additional 283 positions over the next five years and its budget has been increased by 30 per cent.
LINK | Published: 2002-06-12 | Added: 2002-07-01

Trolling for Secrets: Economic Espionage is the New Niche for Government Spies
With the Cold War winding down, however, the CSE - which had spent most of its 50 years spying on the Russians - was instructed to do more economic espionage. Countries like Mexico, Japan, Germany and South Korea were now in the CSE's crosshairs.
PDF | Published: 1998-02-28 | Added: 2002-07-01

Talking Points for W.P.D. Elcock at the Canadian Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies
I was invited this morning to chair a discussion on threat assessments and requirements, and I do not intend to stray far from my assignment. I don’t want to miss this opportunity to try to clarify the role of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service  [...]
LINK | Published: 2002-06-12 | Added: 2002-06-30

The Future of Military Intelligence Within the Canadian Forces
First, the essay will consider the current state of military intelligence in the Canadian Forces, identifying its strengths and weak-nesses. Second, it will identify the factors influencing the future of the CF and of the Intelligence Branch. Third, it  [...]
PDF | Published: 2001-09-01 | Added: 2002-06-27

Info Source: Canadian Security Intelligence Service
General Information (Background, Responsibilities, Legislation, Organization) and Information Holdings (Program Records, Personal Information Banks, Classes of Personal Information, Manuals).
LINK | Published: 2002-06-26 | Added: 2002-06-26

Info Source: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
General Information (Background, Responsibilities, Legislation, Organization) and Information Holdings (Program Records, Personal Information Banks, Classes of Personal Information, Manuals).
LINK | Published: 2002-06-26 | Added: 2002-06-26

Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams
The INSETs will allow the RCMP to work more closely with their national and international partners in the collection and sharing of vital intelligence at an earlier stage. These highly specialized teams will also work to ensure that all the information  [...]
HTML | Published: 2002-06-26 | Added: 2002-06-26

Lux Ex Umbra
An unofficial look inside the Communications Security Establishment, Canada's signals intelligence agency.
HTML | Published: 2001-11-05 | Added: 2002-06-23

Report of the Special Senate Committee on Security and Intelligence
Report on the current international threat environment with particular reference to terrorism as it relates to Canada, on the extent to which the recommendations of the Report of the Special Committee on Terrorism and Public Safety (June 1987) and the  [...]
LINK | Published: 1999-01-01 | Added: 2002-06-23

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service
In July 1984, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act was proclaimed in force. It brought into existence a new civilian security intelligence service, and terminated the previous Security Service, which had functioned as part of the RCMP.
LINK | Published: 2000-01-24 | Added: 2002-05-27

The Communications Security Establishment: Canada's Most Secret Intelligence Agency
This paper is about the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), one of a galaxy of agencies in Canada that fit most, if not all, the elements of these definitions of an intelligence organization with responsibility for foreign intelligence. The CSE  [...]
LINK | Published: 1993-09-01 | Added: 2002-05-27

Expansion Of JTF2 Dangerous
The government's recent decision to more than double the size of Canada's current special forces unit, the Joint Task
TEXT | Published: 2002-02-07 | Added: 2002-05-25

Canada will not create its own foreign spy agency, says John Manley
The Canadian government has shelved a plan to create its own foreign intelligence agency.
LINK | Published: 2002-04-10 | Added: 2002-05-15

Joint Task Force 2
Joint Task Force Two (JTF2) is the Canadian Armed Forces elite counter-terrorist/special operations unit. Although the Joint Task Force is trained in counter-terrorism, it is believed that the unit operates more like an SAS-type special operations  [...]
LINK | Published: 2001-01-01 | Added: 2002-05-14

Edited Hansard Number 079
Perhaps we should look closely at a proposal that had been advanced in the past, that of creating a separate foreign intelligence agency for Canada. Such an agency could serve many purposes, not the least of which would be intelligence gathering relating  [...]
LINK | Published: 2001-09-17 | Added: 2002-05-13

Edited Hansard Number 096 14:30
Will the solicitor general take the advice of the foreign affairs minister and get the mandate and the money to create a permanent foreign intelligence gathering agency?
LINK | Published: 2001-10-17 | Added: 2002-05-13

Edited Hansard Number 096 14:35
However, I do not think we need to look very far to realize that a full scale, highly funded foreign intelligence agency is not the only solution to the problems that exist with respect to terrorism. If so, perhaps the CIA would have prevented the  [...]
LINK | Published: 2001-10-17 | Added: 2002-05-13

New centre will aid Canadian intelligence community
Carleton will be doing its part to create an understanding of Canada's intelligence and security issues with a new intelligence and security research centre. The Canadian Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies (CCISS) is the first of its kind in  [...]
LINK | Published: 2002-04-29 | Added: 2002-05-13

Edited Hansard Number 082
Mr. Speaker, Canada can no longer solely rely on our allies' intelligence to alert us of external threats. Former CSIS planning chief David Harris guaranteed that it was only a matter of time before terrorists would strike in Canada. Harris and others  [...]
LINK | Published: 2001-09-20 | Added: 2002-05-12

No need for overseas spy service, Manley says
Canada suspended the idea of creating its own foreign intelligence agency yesterday, saying it would rely instead on existing security links to gather information and might even ask business executives to pass on tips gleaned from abroad.
TEXT | Published: 2002-04-11 | Added: 2002-05-12

Boost Canada's Spies, Academic Urges
Canada is not up to battling international terrorism on its soil due to a lack of manpower, funding and expertise within security agencies, some experts said day. "The problem is that the RCMP and CSIS don't have the manpower and they don't have the  [...]
PDF | Published: 2001-11-30 | Added: 2002-05-11

Key Ministers Cool to Canadian Spy Service
Foreign Minister Bill Graham and Defence Minister Art Eggleton say they're keeping an open mind, but they're not as sure as some colleagues that Canada needs its own foreign spy agency.
PDF | Published: 2002-01-26 | Added: 2002-05-11

Intelligence Organizations: Canada
List of Internet links related to the Canadian intelligence community.
HTML | Published: 2001-06-23 | Added: 2002-05-04

Il y aurait 350 terroristes au Canada
Même après le terrible attentat du World Trade Center, dont on ne finit plus de compter les morts, les corps policiers canadiens et québécois ne semblent toujours pas prendre au sérieux un rapport du Service canadien du renseignement de sécurité (SCRS),  [...]
PDF | Published: 2001-09-14 | Added: 2002-04-30

L'armée canadienne devrait obtenir plus d'argent
Dans son rapport, le Comité permanent de la défense nationale et des anciens combattants se demande si le gouvernement ne devrait pas songer à se doter d'un service du renseignement à l'étranger afin de compléter le travail effectué par ses services de  [...]
TEXT | Published: 2001-11-07 | Added: 2002-04-30

Le Canada doit-il se doter d'une agence d'espionnage à l'étranger?
Bien qu'ils demeurent prêts à discuter de la question, le ministre fédéral des Affaires étrangères, Bill Graham, et son collègue de la Défense nationale, Art Eggleton, ne sont pas encore convaincus de la nécessité de doter le Canada d'une agence  [...]
PDF | Published: 2002-01-26 | Added: 2002-04-30

Profession: agent de renseignements
Un espion en smoking, le poing serré sur son revolver à silencieux, les yeux louchant vers le décolleté de la secrétaire. C'est de la fiction. C'est aussi l'image romantique et inexacte que le Service canadien du renseignement de sécurité essaie  [...]
TEXT | Published: 2002-01-04 | Added: 2002-04-30

Un service d’espionnage pour le Canada?
La crise actuelle provoquée par la menace terroriste ressuscite le débat sur l’opportunité, pour le Canada, de se doter d’un service d’espionnage en sol étranger.
TEXT | Published: 2001-10-14 | Added: 2002-04-30

Un service de renseignement canadien à l’étranger ciblerait aussi les É-U
Le Canada a besoin d'un service de renseignement à l'étranger, et il n'est pas exclu que les États-Unis seraient alors ciblés, a déclaré le président du comité du caucus libéral sur les affaires étrangères et la défense.
TEXT | Published: 2002-01-25 | Added: 2002-04-30

Budget 2001 Fact Files: Department of National Defence
Intelligence and policing measures, meanwhile, will get $1.6-billion to deploy more officers, improve information-sharing between agencies, boost marine security and strengthen the role of the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada  [...]
LINK | Published: 2002-04-29 | Added: 2002-04-29

Canada Freezes Idea of Foreign Intelligence Agency
Canada suspended the idea of creating its own foreign intelligence agency, saying it would rely instead on existing security links to gather information and might even ask business executives to pass on tips gleaned from abroad.
PDF | Published: 2002-04-10 | Added: 2002-04-29

CSIS does have spies abroad
Canadian Alliance MPs were surprised to hear that Canada does in fact have foreign intelligence-gathering operations abroad after two top-level officials testified before the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration.
LINK | Published: 2001-10-18 | Added: 2002-04-29

Spies like Us in U.S.?
The Canadian government is talking about the need to set up a Canadian foreign intelligence service like the CIA. Of course, the first thing they do is start looking at the US as the primary target.
PDF | Published: 2002-01-26 | Added: 2002-04-29

Terrorist Crisis Revives Debate on Foreign Spy Agency for Canada
Don't expect the recruiting posters for would-be James Bonds to go up any time soon. But the intermittent debate over whether Canada should have a foreign spy service is on again.
PDF | Published: 2001-10-14 | Added: 2002-04-29

The Canadian Intelligence Community: Control and Accountability
Audit undertaken to provide an overview of Canada's intelligence community and of the role of foreign and security intelligence in government; and to determine, and inform Parliament about, the nature, extent and functioning of the control and  [...]
LINK | Published: 1996-11-01 | Added: 2002-04-29

The Forum Responds
Now we ought to be ready to establish our own foreign intelligence-gathering capability, including that for human intelligence. We must put aside our previous reservations. We must also commit the necessary resources.
LINK | Published: 2001-09-15 | Added: 2002-04-29

Canada Needs Foreign Spy Agency: MP
Canada needs a foreign spy agency and the United States can't be ruled out as a potential target, says the head of a Liberal caucus panel studying the question. Bryon Wilfert, a Toronto-area MP, noted Canada is the only G-8 country without a foreign  [...]
PDF | Published: 2002-01-25 | Added: 2002-04-11

Canada - United States Defence Relations
The United States is Canada's most important ally and defence partner. Defence and security relations between the two countries are longstanding, well entrenched and highly successful.
LINK | Published: 2001-12-06 | Added: 2002-03-04

The new space invaders
But now, the new technology of the post-Cold War world has suddenly transformed the West's leading spymasters into sinister shadows manipulating a massive surveillance system that can capture and study every telephone call, fax and e-mail message sent  [...]
LINK | Published: 2000-02-19 | Added: 2002-02-24

CSIS Allowed to Run Operations on Campus
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was recently granted by the Canadian government the authority to recruit and direct undercover sources on the campuses of Canada’s colleges, according to declassified documents.
TEXT | Published: 2002-02-16 | Added: 2002-02-16

Diplomatic Appointments
Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy today announced Franco D. Pillarella, becomes Ambassador to the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. He is currently Director of the Foreign Intelligence Division.
TEXT | Published: 2002-01-28 | Added: 2002-01-28

Info Source: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
The Security and Intelligence Bureau (ISD) is responsible for providing timely and critical intelligence on world events, assuring the protection of Canadian personnel and their families, the safeguard of government premises and assets and the promotion  [...]
LINK | Published: 2002-01-28 | Added: 2002-01-28

The Community Opens Its Ranks to 'New Blood'
Interview Officer, Foreign Intelligence Division. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Functions: Identifies and evaluates potential human sources by maintaining a network of contacts.
TEXT | Published: 2002-01-28 | Added: 2002-01-28

Air Reserve Qualifications: Intelligence Operator
The functions of the Reg F INT OP occupation are to provide intelligence services required by the Sea, Land, and Air elements of the CF; to collect, process, and disseminate information and intelligence; to administer intelligence databases; and to  [...]
LINK | Published: 2001-10-15 | Added: 2001-12-01

Canadian Forces Intelligence Units
Name and Internet address of Canadian Forces intelligence units
TEXT | Published: 2001-12-01 | Added: 2001-12-01

The Role of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in Immigration Security Screening
The main objective of this study is to present and understand the role of the CSIS in the Canadian immigration process. This objective will be reached through the analysis of the mandate given to the CSIS by the Department of Citizenship and Immigration  [...]
PDF | Published: 1999-12-17 | Added: 1999-12-17

CSIS muddled the facts on alleged terrorist, hearing told
The CSIS case, filed in a 30-page summary before the court, alleges that Mr. Jaballah is an Islamic fundamentalist who has links to the Egyptian Al Jihad ("Fighters of the Holy War") and to the World Islamic Front, a terrorist organization run by exiled  [...]
JPG | Published: 1999-08-25 | Added: 1999-08-25

Le fédéral accusé d'espionner ses citoyens
Selon un ancien espion canadien, le gouvernement fédéral utilise un réseau informatique international de surveillance pour recueillir des renseignements sur des citoyens canadiens.
JPG | Published: 1999-06-19 | Added: 1999-06-19

Lien entre un professeur et un groupe terroriste
Les responsables du ministère de la Citoyenneté et de l'Immigration ont établi un lien entre un professeur de biologie vivant au Canada depuis 1996 et un groupe terroriste égyptien faisant partie du réseau d'Osama bin Laden.
JPG | Published: 1999-05-23 | Added: 1999-05-23

L'évolution du renseignement de sécurité au Canada
La présente recherche ne se veut pas une enquête exhaustive sur les actions des services de renseignement canadiens ni une critique sur leurs agissements. Il s'agit essentiellement d'une recherche historique ayant pour but de relever les principales  [...]
PDF | Published: 1999-04-12 | Added: 1999-04-12

Critères recherchés par le SCRS et tâches requises
Les agents de renseignement sont appelés à effectuer des recherches et des enquêtes et à analyser des informations. Les agents de renseignement doivent rédiger des rapports clairs et concis sur des sujets qui touchent la sécurité nationale.
PDF | Published: 1999-02-10 | Added: 1999-02-10

CSIS and the Security Intelligence Cycle
One of the primary values of intelligence-gathering is the timely delivery of perishable information to policy-makers in government. The five phases of the process that produces these results is known as the security intelligence cycle and they are  [...]
LINK | Published: 1999-01-29 | Added: 1999-01-29