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Once we talk of spies, most people think James Bond, the car chases, games of poker at the highest risk and martinis. We rarely think in Canada. Mistake, says former officer of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Michel Juneau-Katsuya.
Canada would it be perceived as a country too peaceful, even boring, to be targeted by spies?
"On the contrary, retorts Mr. Juneau-Katsuya. There were many diplomats who were deported or declared persona non grata. "
In addition to these diplomats who continue to practice their espionage activities in Canada, there are sleeper cells spies. He even been possible to convince Canadians to pass the secrets of their country to foreign governments.
Here are some cases where the spies have been unmasked: 1992-1993 - Based in the Russian Embassy in Ottawa, Colonel Sergei Tretyakov was posing as a diplomat. Yet by his own admission, he was a spy. After continuing his espionage activities in Washington and the UN, Mr. Tretyakov defected to the United States. He suggested that representatives of Cuba and the United Nations collaborated with the Russians. Moreover, he argued that a member of the backbench Conservative government Brian Mulroney was rewarded financially to pass secret documents abroad. This case has never been followed up, because these allegations were never proven. In addition, Mr. Tretyakov's book was never published in Canada on legal issues.
1945 - Igor Gouzenko was a clerk specializing in cryptography to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa. Having access to many secret files, it was not very comfortable with the policies of his country. Rather than return to Moscow he chose to defect Canada.
He left the Soviet embassy with over 100 records under his arm and gave the Canadian government. It is through these records that the MP Fred Rose was unmasked and convicted of espionage, as the scientist Alan Nunn May. The latter, who had worked at the Canadian nuclear program, was on British soil at the time of his arrest.
1945-1947 - Member of the Montreal riding of Cartier, Fred Rose was accused of conspiracy and of passing secrets to the Soviets. He had also been identified as a Soviet spy Igor Gouzenko. Mr. Rose was elected to the House of Commons under the banner of the Progressive Labour Party. However, it was ousted from his seat and spent more than four years behind bars.
2006 - Paul William Hampel is a spy recently. Little is known about him. Mr. Hampel - a pseudonym - was arrested at Montreal-Trudeau Airport in November 2006. He was deported under a security certificate. Mr. Hampel's lawyer admitted he was not who he claimed to be, but argued that it was certainly not a Russian spy, either. Nevertheless, he believed that CSIS be a member of an elite Russian spying has never challenged his deportation from Canada.
1990-1996 - The Russian pair of Yelena Borisovna Olshanskaya formed and Dmitry Vladimirovich Olshansky had been sent to Canada to conduct espionage activities. The two moved to Toronto, where they took the names of dead children.
soon unmasked their game, they were returned to Russia. They divorced and Ms. Olshanskaya married a Canadian. She lobbied to stay in power Canada, but his request was denied.
2004 - Technically, Momin Khawaja is not a spy. Born in Ottawa, however, it was the first person convicted of terrorism under Canadian law adopted in the wake of attacks in the United States September 11, 2001. At the time of his arrest, Mr. Khawaja was under contract to the Department of Information Technology Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was convicted of plotting to blow up nightclubs and other crowded places in the United Kingdom. He was trying to make detonators.
2010 - The director of the CSIS Richard Fadden has created quite a controversy when he said that some politicians in the municipal and provincial politics were under the influence of foreign governments. He never accused anyone of being a spy or a traitor. However, he never retracted, despite complaints from opposition parties. The Harper government has lined up behind Mr. Fadden.
Brian Lilley
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