If you attended a Canadian university in the past eighty years,
it's possible that, unbeknownst to you, Canadian security agents
were surveying you, your fellow students, and your professors for
'subversive' tendencies and behaviour. Since the end of the First
World War, members of the RCMP have infiltrated the campuses of
Canada's universities and colleges to spy, meet informants, gather
information, and on occasion, to attend classes. Why they were
there is the subject of a new book by Steve Hewitt. Spying 101
provides new insight on the previously secret operations of one of
Canada's most powerful institutions and best-known national
symbols, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. For more than eighty
years, the RCMP and its younger counterpart, the Canadian Security
Intelligence Service (CSIS), have been conducting covert
investigations within the hallowed halls of Canadian universities
in an attempt to discover 'subversive' activity among faculty,
employees, and students, and, periodically, to hunt for spies and
terrorists. Information has been collected on thousands of
Canadians, including prominent individuals such as Pierre Berton,
Peter Gzowski, Lotta Hitschmanova, and RenT LTvesque. Spying 101
offers a fresh examination of the relationship in the intelligence
field between the RCMP and federal departments, such as National
Defence and External Affairs, and its political masters, including
Pierre Trudeau. Hewitt also explores the complicity of the RCMP in
the handling of the anti-APEC protests at the University of British
Columbia in 1997 and offers an overview of the current work by
Canada's intelligence services at the nation's universities.
Relying on thousands of pages of previously secret RCMP and
government documents, and on recollections of participants
including former members of the RCMP Security Service, Spying 101
offers a vivid portrait of a crucial, yet unstudied, chapter in the
history of the world's most famous police force.
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