Secret Service provides the first comprehensive history of
political policing in Canada - from its beginnings in the
mid-nineteenth century, through two world wars and the Cold War to
the more recent 'war on terror.' This book reveals the extent,
focus, and politics of government-sponsored surveillance and
intelligence-gathering operations.
Drawing on previously classified government records, the authors
reveal that for over 150 years, Canada has run spy operations
largely hidden from public or parliamentary scrutiny - complete
with undercover agents, secret sources, agent provocateurs, coded
communications, elaborate files, and all the usual apparatus of
deception and betrayal so familiar to fans of spy fiction. As they
argue, what makes Canada unique among Western countries is its
insistent focus of its surveillance inwards, and usually against
Canadian citizens.
Secret Service highlights the many tensions that arise when
undercover police and their covert methods are deployed too freely
in a liberal democratic society. It will prove invaluable to
readers attuned to contemporary debates about policing, national
security, and civil rights in a post-9/11 world.
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