Inside Canadian Intelligence: Exposing the New Realities of Espionage and International Terrorism by Dwight Hamilton

Inside Canadian Intelligence: Exposing the New Realities of Espionage and International Terrorism by Dwight Hamilton

Author:Dwight Hamilton [Hamilton, Dwight]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Politics, Political Science, Terrorism, Intelligence & Espionage
ISBN: 9781554888917
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Goodreads: 10411323
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2006-06-10T00:00:00+00:00


So little has been written or is truly known about the CSE. If an agency is veiled in secrecy, certain concerns, like the lack of security planning and preparation regarding critical infrastructure, can easily be overlooked, and key intelligence organizations may be left ill-prepared to handle emergencies that may arise. In intelligence, it is imperative to be able to plan years in advance and foresee problem areas. In this case, the problem was foreseen by the CSE, but without being discussed in public, increased government funding is hard to get.

Much information and intelligence provided by the CSE cannot be acted upon because of the sensitivity of the methods of collection involved in intelligence, security, and criminal matters. You can get a glimpse of this problem from the case involving the Sikh terrorist trial in Hamilton. Canada needs an elite agency able to act on the information gleaned from CSE sources and its allies. Release of information to other Canadian agencies is often limited, as it must be used cautiously. The enemy, for example, cannot find out that their codes are compromised. This new intelligence group, under control of the CSE, could also engage in other operations like targeting foreign diplomatic intelligence gathering by gaining access to codes and signals equipment, conducting deception operations, and providing agents provocateur, tactics currently not implemented by the CSE. Such internal groups exist in support of both the NSA and GCHQ. Why not Canada?

I personally ponder the quality of leadership chosen for matters of Canadian security. Take this quote from Margaret Bloodworth, deputy minister for public safety, to the CSE Cyber Protection Forum on January 19, 2005:



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