Canadian Security Intelligence Service
| CanSIS link Website | |
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| File:Canadian Security Intelligence Service logo.svg | |
| Motto | A safe, secure and prosperous Canada, through trusted intelligence and advice. |
| Headquarters | Ottawa, Ontario |
| Leader | Minister of Public Safety |
| Staff | 2,449 |
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CanSIS) is one of the Five Eyes, an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These countries are parties to the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence.[1]
Two plane 'crashes'
In 1990, a whistleblower tried to hand over all the information on two plane 'crashes' (South African Airways Flight 295 and Pan Am Flight 103), bribes, account numbers, who was killed and why to the Canadian Admin Consul, R. Adrian J. Brazeau, in Pretoria at the Consulate in August 1990.[2] Brazeau refused to keep the information after reading it as he stated, "anyone who has this information is a dead man."
Too sensitive
After the whistleblower escaped in October 1990, he tried to hand off to CanSIS, they wouldn't take the information either, stating it was "too sensitive."[3]
Arrests
- The Canadian citizen Michael Spavor was arrested as a spy by China in December 2018. In August 2021, a Chinese court sentenced Spavor to 11 years in prison, and he was deported shortly after.[4]
- At the same time the Canadian Michael Kovrig, working for the International Crisis Group was arrested under similar circumstances, and deported in 2021. In a statement, Global Affairs Canada denied that Spavor and Kovrig were involved in espionage.[5] The arrest and release might have been in connection with Canada arresting Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on behalf of the United States.
References
- ↑ "Canada and the Five Eyes Intelligence Community"
- ↑ "Dave Meckanic on Facebook"
- ↑ "Government/Institutional Corruption and Corporate Malfeasance"
- ↑ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-08-10/chinese-court-convicts-canadian-michael-spavor-on-charge-of-espionage
- ↑ https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/suggestion-kovrig-spavor-involved-in-espionage-perpetuating-false-narrative-gac-says-after-report/
