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Praise for Inside Canadian Intelligence

An engrossing and disturbing glimpse into the darker recesses of national security. Hamilton and his contributors reveal truths that should awaken a complacent country to the perils posed by growing global fanaticism.

Alan Lofft, former editor, CBC Current Affairs

Dwight Hamilton is a crisp writer whose words move like the wind. Inside Canadian Intelligence shows that our world doesnt work the way we would like it to. It is big, brutish, and often dangerous. And Canadas dreaming.

Peter Carter, former senior editor, The Financial Post

An overdue look at a neglected area.

Stewart Bell, author of Cold Terror and The Martyrs Oath

Fascinating and timely. This is a book that demanded to be written and now demands to be read. The editor and authors have done their job extremely well and we can only hope that Canadians will listen.

Michael Coren, Toronto Sun columnist and broadcaster

The authors are obviously experienced ...

Intelligence Officers Bookshelf

A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection

Excellent background for anyone looking to learn more about Canadas involvement in the clandestine.

Esprit de Corps

INSIDE
CANADIAN
INTELLIGENCE

EXPOSING THE NEW REALITIES OF ESPIONAGE AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

SECOND EDITION

DWIGHT HAMILTON

Dedication

This book is dedicated to those of Canadian intelligence services who gave their lives in the line of duty.

The same spirit still lives. Perhaps it only survives through struggle. It is needed now to recreate an alliance in defence of the main priorities of Western civilization. This is what we did then. This is what we can do now.

Sir William Stephenson

A Man Called Intrepid

Table of Contents

• by Dwight Hamilton
• by John Thompson
• by Kostas Rimsa
• by Kostas Rimsa
• by John Thompson
• by Dwight Hamilton
• by Kostas Rimsa
• by Dwight Hamilton with files from anonymous
• by John Thompson
• by Kostas Rimsa
• by Dwight Hamilton
• by Kostas Rimsa
• by Robert Matas
• by Dwight Hamilton
• by Dwight Hamilton with files from Kostas Rimsa

Preface to the Second Edition

W e were running late for the ceremony at Camp X on Rem-embrance Day 2010 due to the Colonels Burmese cat. They are a bad mix with full-dress uniforms. But with eyes that appeared able to penetrate the darkness of a Rangoon night, he became impressed with the breed after an early assignment in that Far Eastern country. Shortly before, he had to pass through the famous spy school where he brushed shoulders with the likes of Sir William Stephenson (Intrepid) as well as other characters that would be best described as heroic. This was during the Second World War when many people had to do important things in a big way.

Today you dont need to fly to Burma to find a war. Before this book was originally published five years ago, Canada had not had much exposure to Islamic Jihadism, but the subsequent arrests of such terrorists in a couple of its major cities have made many Canadians realize there is a war right here at home. It is an unconventional war, and the countrys intelligence and security services are some of its key participants.

I would also like to point out that any adverse mention whatsoever in this book of individual members of any political, social, ethnic, religious, or national group is not intended to insinuate that all people of that group are terrorists or their supporters. In fact, actual terrorists represent only a small minority of dedicated and often fanatical members in most such groups. It is they and their actions that are the subject of our ongoing research.

In June 2010, I was most grateful to present evidence to the Special Senate Subcommittee on Anti-terrorism, which included the Honourable Senators Hugh Segal (Chair); Serge Joyal, PC (Deputy Chair); James Cowan; George Furey; Marjory LeBreton, PC; Pierre Claude Nolin; Dennis Patterson; David Smith, PC; David Tkachuk; Mobina Jaffer; and Pamela Wallin. This new edition incorporates some of the testimony given. Again, my thanks go out to the committee for the opportunity for dialogue on this important topic. As Professor Ronald Crelinsten, a senior research associate for the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria, pointed out that day, any proper counterterrorism strategy goes well beyond an electoral horizon.

On a final note, I gratefully acknowledge the receipt of a writers reserve grant from the Ontario Arts Council for the completion of this second edition. Please note that the information included in the main text is current to the date listed in the preface to the first edition.

Dwight Hamilton

2011

Preface to the First Edition

Y ou hold in your hands a remarkable book. Critics told me it would not see the light of day. Such a treatment on a subject this difficult had never been tried in the past for a reason: it was seen as too tough. After all, there are no intellectual boundaries with our topic. Intelligence. Is. Everything.

The head of the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence has said that training an intelligence analyst takes about as long as training a neurosurgeon. Thats about right. I was told that because of who the authors once were, the government would stop the press before the ink had dried. So why did I insist on hitting such a hard target?

First, there is an obvious and pressing need for informed debate and government action on national security before our city morgues begin to overflow. Canadian civilians may find the sight of scores of body bags being stacked especially those of horribly mutilated women and children somewhat vile. A few years before I served at CFB Toronto, a train derailment involving tanker cars with massive amounts of lethal chemicals caused the evacuation of more than two hundred thousand people from the city of Mississauga. But what is not generally known is that the emergency triggered the restriction of base personnel in faraway Downsview before the evacuation was complete. The reason given at the gate to soldiers attempting to leave? You guys are the only ones that can deal with that many dead people, I was told they said.

On 9/11, I had to leave my desk for the trade mission of a foreign government located near the United States Consulate to help a frightened girlfriend when her offices were being evacuated. If an unruly place like Afghanistan can result in havoc in your own streets, then you have to act, co-author John Thompson told the Globe and Mail the next day. When beginning work on this book I was asked by a senior member of the media, Do you think we will be hit?

Yes, I do.

Second, errors of fact and interpretation, disinformation, and shallow or misleading commentary are rife in the field. This should hardly come as a surprise in a world where leading civil servants routinely classify everything that they can, creating a culture of secrecy not so much for the national interest as for their own careers and self-image. In addition, academics, journalists, and others often draw conclusions from incredibly incomplete records and sometimes have an agenda of their own that is not in the best interests of the average Canadian citizen.

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