With new powers to collect Canadians' data, new legislation that allows our spooks to operate abroad, and a raft of new government agents on the security and intelligence file it's a clear signal that 2015 will be Canada's year of the spy.
After agents of the Security Directorate, which was controlled by the Interior Ministry, were discovered to be involved in the 1985 murder of an American drug agent, that agency was abolished.
According to some sources, the categorization of the security forces as a Jewish institution as disseminated in the post-war anticommunist press at various times was rooted in Żydokomuna: the belief that the secret police was predominantly Jewish became one of the factors contributing to the post-war view of Jews as agents of the security forces.
The suitcase in question belonged to an agent of the Israeli security service, Shin Bet.
Litvinenko was also a "paid agent" of the Spanish security services.
The Supreme Court barred Prime Minister Ariel Sharon from appointing as his antiterrorism adviser a former senior agent of the Shin Bet security service who battered to death two Palestinian prisoners in 1984.
A Cincinnati postal inspector eventually linked a number of packages back to an address in the city where Halpin, 30, and Bosworth, 39, both lived, according to an affidavit filed in August 2017 by Michael Grote, special agent of the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations in Ohio, who also worked on the Kiessling matter.
In the predawn Siberian darkness five days ago, agents of the Russian security agency stormed the private jet of Russia's richest man.
Another major focus of the challenge is a provision that allows agents of the Canadian security and intelligence service (CSIS) to apply directly to judges for warrants to permit actions against suspected terrorists that they know to be unconstitutional.
