BY ROB DENABURG
In the world of spies and foreign intelligence agencies, the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) are likely the first to come to mind.
What about Canada’s equivalent? Where are our foreign spies?
The answer is that Canada has never had a standalone agency for its foreign intelligence efforts, let alone one dedicated to clandestine human intelligence (HUMINT) collection abroad.Canadian clandestine agents have been sent overseas on occasion to collect information on potential threats to Canada, but this does not imply an established network of Canadian foreign spies. Instead, Canada chooses to collect and analyze foreign intelligence through other means.
