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	Canadian Security Intelligence Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is a civilian intelligence agency of Canada's federal government that collects, monitors and analyses information that may affect national security.
		Prior to the establishment of CSIS, the RCMP, which is Canada's federal police service, was responsible for intelligence and counterintelligence activities.
		Security Liaison Officers (SLOs) of CSIS are posted at Canadian embassies and consulates to gather security-related intelligence from other nations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_Security_Intelligence_Service (582 words)

	BCCLA Position Paper: McDonald Commission, 1978
		Merely to say that the Security Service felt it was driven to the disclosed activities by a threat to security is not evidence that the threat existed, nor that the measures used were necessary to meet it.
		Rather, we see a Security Service that has grown out of all proportion to the threats that can reasonably be said to exist, and one whose excessive zeal has led it to act in ways seriously threatening to the rights and freedoms that the people of this nation are supposed to possess.
		By failing to focus on what security measures are appropriate to Canada, and in effect condoning excessive police behavior without judging its necessity, the federal government has paved the way for public acceptance of illegal acts by the security service and for public support of unwarranted expansion of RCMP security powers.
	www.bccla.org /positions/police/78rcmp.html (4052 words)

	BCCLA Position Paper: Submission to Commission of Inquiry re: RCMP, 1979
		Given evidence that the security service of the RCMP has interfered with, or placed under surveillance, such legitimate movements as the Parti Quebecois and the Waffle section of the NDP, we cannot stress too much that such police activities are incompatible with the legitimate role of a security service in a democracy.
		RCMP units which are policing the provinces on contract to the provinces may not present this latter problem to the provincial Attorneys General.
		In light of this, to the extent that the Security Service attempts to combat domestic subversion involving threats of criminal behaviour, it is properly under the authority of the provinces.
	www.bccla.org /positions/police/79rcmp.html (12147 words)

	Annual Report 1998-1999 - Security Intelligence Review Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The RCMP Security Service should be disbanded, McDonald concluded, and a new separate, civilian organization put in its place to ensure that security intelligence activities were effective, and at the same time carried out in accordance with the rule of law and accountable to government.
		It is useful to recall that the legislation governing security intelligence in Canada emerged at the height of the Cold War and the depths of the 1980s recession.
		Security intelligence activities are on the increase in other parts of the government, in large measure because of the evolving nature of international threats to Canadians.
	www.sirc-csars.gc.ca /annual/1998-1999/intro_e.html (1531 words)

	Reflections - Security Intelligence Review Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Revelations of an RCMP dirty tricks campaign conducted during the 1970s—which came to light during the hearings and subsequent report of the McDonald Commission of Inquiry Concerning Certain Activities of the RCMP (1981)— led directly to the disbandment of the RCMP’s Security Service.
		Security screening of immigrants to Canada and of staff within the federal public service was the first area that underwent a review.
		Also revealed among the RCMP Security Service’s activities was the torching of a barn outside of Montreal, which had been used as a meeting place of Quebec intellectuals suspected of having separatist affiliations.
	www.sirc-csars.gc.ca /reflections/sec2a_e.html (1818 words)

	The Mackenzie Institute
		In a process that paralleled much of the decline in the Canadian military, senior RCMP officers became increasingly drawn into the civil service culture instead of remaining as a quasi-independent service under the Solicitor General of Canada.
		RCMP officers have complained to the author that political will is absent for many major investigations.
		The RCMP has been working closely with Canada customs and several other agencies to closely scrutinize merchants, and observe the private passage of firearms (such as those belonging to hunters or recreation societies) into and out of the country.
	www.globalsecurity.org /security/library/congress/2000_h/thom0125.htm (6761 words)

	CSIS 1991 Public Report - English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Security intelligence services worldwide are grappling with the implications of the unprecedented upheavals in the world order that occurred in 1991.
		The Service uses a variety of collection methods to monitor individuals or groups whose activities are suspected of constituting a threat to national security.
		The Service recognizes that special measures are needed to enhance the employment opportunities for women, aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities and persons who are, because of their race or colour, members of a visible minority in Canada.
	www.terrorism.net /Pubs/csisarticles/pub1991e.htm (5933 words)

	CLGA: Demands & Results
		Security Service officers visit office of GATE Toronto, 10 Mar 76, to ask "what plans the gay movement was making in connection with the Olympics, to be held in Montreal in July." Seen in connection with massive pre-Olympic "clean-up" by Montreal police.
		Chapter covers activities, beginning in the 1950s, of RCMP Security Service subsection A-3, whose sole purpose (the article's intro notes) "was the identification and dismissal of every gay person in the employ of the public service."
		TBP reprints in full RCMP Policy in Respect of Homosexual Conduct, prepared by commissioner R. Simmonds in response to question from Svend Robinson, 1 May 85, on impact of Charter of Rights and Freedoms (in effect 17 Apr 85) on force's policies.
	www.clga.ca /Material/Records/docs/details/rcmp.htm (1530 words)

	Civilian Oversight of the RCMP's National Security Functions (PRB 04-09E) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		However, the Service’s involvement in illegal activities led the Commission of Inquiry Concerning Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (McDonald Commission) to recommend that a new civilian security intelligence service be established.
		Its security operations were expanded after the war with the establishment of the Special Branch (1950), the Directorate of Security and Intelligence (1962), and the Security Service (1970).
		Nonetheless, the RCMP’s apparent reluctance to fully cooperate with the Commission where matters of national security are involved,(13) coupled with the terms of reference for the O’Connor Commission and the commitments made by the Government of Canada in the National Security Policy make the status quo an unlikely choice.
	www.parl.gc.ca /information/library/PRBpubs/prb0409-e.htm (2538 words)

	The Death of Air India Flight 182 - By Salim Jiwa
		The decision had already been made by RCMP Commissioner Robert Simmonds at headquarters in Ottawa that a massive, coordinated investigation had to be launched into the twin disasters.
		He had already accumulated more than a dozen years with the RCMP Security Service before it was disbanded and a civilian security agency was formed.
		The security service (RCMP) operatives and this writer arrived at the office of the Republic of Khalistan two days apart in September 1981.
	www.flight182.com /part23.htm (2526 words)

	Justice for Mohamed Harkat: content / why the rcmp is back in the spy game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the agency that replaced the RCMP Security Service in 1984.
		With national security suddenly a high-profile political issue, and with the tactics of the RCMP under attack in Parliament, the Liberal government of Lester B. Pearson struck a Royal Commission to examine security procedures and the role of the RCMP.
		The RCMP Security Service was formally disbanded in 1984 and its responsibilities for intelligence gathering were handed to the newly created civilian spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
	www.zerra.net /freemohamed/content.php?article.133.0 (1640 words)

	CIRC - Canadian Security Intelligence Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		CSIS is also responsible for conducting security assessments for all federal government departments and agencies (upon request), with the exception of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, as well as for immigration, citizenship and refugee applicants upon referral from Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
		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.
		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.
	circ.jmellon.com /agencies/csis (11167 words)

	The Creation of Canada’s Civilian Security Intelligence Service
		In 1970, following the report of the MacKenzie Commission, John Starnes, a foreign service officer with the Department of External Affairs, became the first civilian Director General of the RCMP Security Service.
		Institutional links between the Security Service and the main body of the RCMP became more flexible, but problems, due to the different natures of security intelligence work and police work, remained.
		A Security Intelligence Transition Group task force was formed to plan and oversee the establishment of the new organization.
	www.csis-scrs.gc.ca /en/about_us/history_artifacts/history/brf_csis_index.asp?print_view=1 (284 words)

	Distributed by Southam News on Sept
		The now-defunct RCMP Security Service had amassed 668 files under the
		Service, assumed the lead role in countering subversion, espionage and
		Security Service members were also on hand when American social critic
	www.spying101.com /southamstory.html (660 words)

	Twenty years since the Air India bombings--Part 2 Why is the Canadian government resisting a public inquiry?
		On the night of October 6, 1972, the RCMP broke into the offices of the APLQ, a small left-wing group, stealing documents and ransacking the place in an attempt to make the break-in appear to be the work of right-wing thugs.
		Although a substantial number of Security Service personnel had transferred to CSIS, many in the RCMP viewed CSIS as a contemptible rival and therefore would have been eager to bring to the attention of their political masters evidence of CSIS incompetence and/or wrongdoing.
		The Canadian government, RCMP, and national-security establishment had spent years seeking to restore public confidence in and render more effective Canada’s political police after it had been shaken by revelations of the RCMP Security Service’s illegal activities and spying on vast numbers of Canadians.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/jul2005/ind2-j30_prn.shtml (2261 words)

	CEC Jan 28_00
		The wrongful and illegal activities of the RCMP were documented and exposed by the MacDonald Royal Commission back in the early 1980s.
		Furthermore, the CPC demands that the Canadian government publicly renounce the decision of prior governments to consider such anti-democratic action, and officially apologize to the CPC and to the families of all those individual Communists who were targeted under this plan.
		The RCMP had 762 people on their to-be-interned list in 1970, including 13 children under the age of 11 and 23 between the ages of 12 and 16.
	www.communist-party.ca /news/Statements/2000/communist_internment.html (1441 words)

	Spying 101, by Steve Hewitt
		For more than eighty years, the RCMP and its younger counterpart, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), have been conducting covert investigations within the hallowed halls of Canadian universities in an attempt to discover 'subversive' activity among faculty, employees, and students, and, periodically, to hunt for spies and terrorists.
		Hewitt also explores the complicity of the RCMP in the handling of the anti-APEC protests at the University of British Columbia in 1997 and offers an overview of the current work by Canada's intelligence services at the nation's universities.
		Relying on thousands of pages of previously secret RCMP and government documents, and on recollections of participants including former members of the RCMP Security Service, Spying 101 offers a vivid portrait of a crucial, yet unstudied, chapter in the history of the world's most famous police force.
	www.spying101.com (403 words)

	Canada - General -Post-WWII - R-S (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Clark comment: In this work, the prolific and knowledgeable Richelson combines with Ball, Australia's preeminent intelligence scholar, to lay out the development and maintenance of intelligence cooperation and coordination among the so-called UKUSA countries, particularly in the area of signals intelligence, from World War II to the present.
		For Services Rendered: Leslie James Bennett and the RCMP Security Service.
		According to Cram, For Services Rendered "concentrates entirely on the Canadian scene and allows few distractions from the central story." This is a "vivid and truthful account of the destruction of an excellent civilian officer."
	intellit.muskingum.edu /canada_folder/canadagenr-s.html (759 words)

	Saw-Saz
		While accepting the ambitiousness of the effort to write an institutional history, Naftali, IandNS 5.3, is not convinced that the authors have reached their goal.
		In particular, they "seem to have missed the implications for the CIC" of the multinational (including the British Field Security Service, MI6, and OSS' counter-espionage branch, X-2) context within which the organization plied its trade.
		Nor do they seem to understand the impact that Ultra had on CIC's operations.
	intellit.muskingum.edu /alpha_folder/S_folder/saw-saz.html (931 words)

	How to ask powerful questions - Interviewing masterclass for journalists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Michener Award for meritorious public service in the field of journalism, 1976
		Best non-fiction paperback of year award for For Services Rendered, 1983
		Ottawa-Carleton Book Award for Mulroney: The Politics of Ambition, 1992
	www.ejc.nl /cp/P0005amsucv.html (163 words)

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