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Richard Fadden, the head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, faced a parliamentary committee Monday to explain why he had publicly revealed that Canadian politicians were under the sway of foreign influences.
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Forget James Bond and how you ever pictured espionage to work. It's all about influence these days, according to the head of Canada's intelligence agency.
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CSIS, Canada's spy agency, is still attempting to keep portions of its files on socialist politician and so-called "father of medicare" Tommy Douglas secret, decades after his death in 1986.
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Canada's intelligence agency, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, has now been given the right to listen in on phone calls of terror suspects overseas, a federal court ruled on Tuesday.
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CSIS has hired 100 new officers into the Canadian intelligence gathering arena and it had a huge pool of job seekers to choose from. Over 14,500 Canadians submitted applications last year.
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"A "Top Secret" memo obtained by the National Post shows Stephen Harper was briefed about the discovery of the spy in advance of the arrest but told to keep quiet to avoid compromising the operation."
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it's being taken "very seriously'', A recent threatening letter signed by a group claiming to be a new cell of the FLQ, a Quebec a pro-sovereigntist group active in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Now Hiring: Canada's spy agency is looking for about seventy percent more intelligence officers to fill positions of retiring officers.
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"Canada's spy agency says it is "quite surprising" that terrorists have not detonated a crude radioactive bomb, given the availability of materials and ease with which they could be made into a weapon."
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 The intrigue launched by coquettish correspondence between Bob Dechert and a Chinese reporter was more of a comedy than a thriller for Canada's spy service.
 Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has outlined instructions for Canada's spy service on how to share information with foreign agencies even when there is a "substantial risk" it will lead to torture, a newly released document shows.
 Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has reversed Canadian policy, quietly directing Canada's spy agency to use information that may have been extracted through torture in cases where public safety is at stake.
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Richard B. Fadden, Director, Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
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