Debate over a foreign spy service for Canada influenced by allies, money: study
Source: Toronto Star
Ottawa’s fractious relations with Washington has prompted fresh conversations about whether Canada should have its own intelligence service that dispatches people abroad.
OTTAWA - The decades-long debate over whether Canada should create a CIA-style foreign spy agency has been coloured by pressure from allies, budgetary restraint and internal federal rivalries, a new study reveals
Much of the discussion about Canada’s foreign intelligence aspirations has taken place — fittingly perhaps, given the subject matter — in classified memos and behind closed doors in the halls of government.
“To spy, or not to spy,” a new paper by researcher and former Canadian intelligence analyst Alan Barnes, draws on recently released archival records to trace the history of official thinking on the question from 1945 to 2007.
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