The drama unfolds in a series of hushed conversations and covert meetings, all of which are overseen by the most conspicuous set of spies this side of Austin Powers.
According to prosecutors, MI5 (the security service) and the police had carried out a covert surveillance operation recording their conversations and monitoring their actions.
CIA officials, members of congressional oversight committees and others say they find themselves in conversations about such covert tactics as kidnapping family members of suspected terrorists, hiring Afghan drug lords and bandits as informants, and possible assassination attempts.
Bringing verbal, institutional and covert racism back in to the conversation, the implicit dangers of being Aboriginal are still present today.
It is easy to imagine how, for a dangerous minority of people, it could be an easy step from "normal" social media stalking to, say, downloading a covert phone app that listens to their conversations or tracks their movements.
Eventually, the boys' conversations were picked up on covert surveillance.
"Because of the nature of racism in Canada being more covert, and very implicit, a lot of conversations don't get had.
But those allegations were made substantially more credible two months ago, when a VAT campaigner released a covert recording of his off-the-record conversation with an HMRC official in the pub.
In their initial conversations, Le and the FBI's online covert employee (OCE) hashed out the details of how ricin works and how it should be administered.
We were there for an investigative documentary on the effects of Canada's training mission in Ukraine but conversation quickly turned to their own missions, covert or otherwise.
