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Indlæser... Covert Entry : Spies, Lies and Crimes Inside Canada's Secret Service (2002)af Andrew Mitrovica
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A unique, unprecedented look at the inner workings of our domestic secret service by a leading investigative reporter. An alarming portrait of incompetence -- and worse -- inside the agency that is supposed to protect us from terrorism. Canada's espionage agency enjoys operating deep in the shadows. Set up as a civilian force in the early eighties after the RCMP spy service was abolished for criminal excesses, no news is good news for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). This country's spymasters work diligently to prevent journalists, politicians and watchdog agencies from prying into their secret world. Few journalists have come close to rivalling Andrew Mitrovica at unveiling the stories CSIS does not want told. In Covert Entry, the award-winning investigative reporter uncovers a disturbing pattern of corruption, law-breaking and incompetence deep inside the service, and provides readers with a troubling window on its daily operations. At its core, Covert Entry traces the eventful career of a veteran undercover operative who worked on some of the service's most sensitive cases and was ordered to break the law by senior CSIS officers, in the name of national security. Like Philip Agee's Inside the Company: CIA Diary, Mitrovica's book delivers a ground-level, day-to-day look at who is actually running the show in clandestine operations inside Canada. The picture he paints does not fill one with confidence and definitively shatters the myth that CSIS respects the rights and liberties it is charged with protecting. From the Hardcover edition. No library descriptions found. |
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The book lifts up the rock that the intelligence service was hiding under and reveals some pretty nasty things. In addition to the law-breaking, the whole culture in the service was rotten. The watchdog was not set up properly either, making it dependent on the service it was monitoring to make sure it had all the information necessary to rule on complaints brought forward. No wonder the operative was dismissed.
This book is interesting from a historical perspective. I am not sure how much the culture has changed, but technology has certainly changed in the 17 years since this book was published. Turns out that in June 2019, Bill C-59, An Act Respecting National Security Matters, was given royal assent. The Security Intelligence Review Committee has been abolished and a new agency, the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency, has been created to oversee both CSIS and the Communications Security Establishment, which deals with cryptology and the IT side of foreign intelligence. It will be interesting to see how this new agency actually ends up working. ( )