[Newsbot]

Title: Canada may need its own foreign spy service: watchdog
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-10-25 20:55:49
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

Thank you, Captain obvious.

[Benn]

Blah, this issue pops up it seems every few years to fill papers. Don't see it happening anytime soon.

[bootlegga]

We already have one, it's called the Communications Security Establishment, and they have spied on plenty of other foreign nations electronically (SIGINT).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicat ... ent_Canada

Weel, at least they did until the mid-90s, when an ex-employee wrote a scathing tell-all called Spyworld.

http://www.amazon.ca/Spyworld-Mike-Fros ... 558&sr=8-1

However, if we want operatives ala the CIA and KGB, our multi-cultural society provides us with potentially operatives for just about every nation on the planet (after very thorough screening of course).

[Tman1]

What Canada needs is to make it known or well known to other Canadians. I mean besides military buffs and the like, how much of the common folk know about CSIS, JTF2 and anything else the Canadian government likes to keep secret and hush hush?

[PublicAnimalNo9]

I dunno, whenever I hear about CSIS all I can think of is 2 guys hiding behind a tree saying, "Uh oh, I think he CSIS".

[andyt]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

I dunno, whenever I hear about CSIS all I can think of is 2 guys hiding behind a tree saying, "Uh oh, I think he CSIS".

I think of the CSIS guys following Rayat into the woods, hearing an explosion but not following it up.