Men in the shadows : the RCMP Security Service
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0385146825
ISBN 13
9780385146821
Category
Canadian Legal History
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Publication Year
1980
Publisher
Pages
302
Subject
Criminal justice administration
Abstract
In this book, award-winning journalist John Sawatsky traces the origins of the Security Service, plots its growth since the Gouzenko revelations of 1945, and shows how it got mired in illegal activities. He deliberately avoided the public-record testimony of the McDonald and Keable commission into RCMP wrongdoing to conduct his own independent investigation. He interviewed past and present members of the Security Service and they spoke to him with surprising openness: they wanted to "set the record straight". That record includes details of the RCMP's counter-espionage activities such as the monitoring of unfriendly embassies and the physical surveillance of targets; the cozy relationship between the Security Service and the FBI and CIA; the Force's obsession with homosexuality in the Fifties and Sixties; the major espionage cases of the last 35 years; the rise of E Special (the illegal-activities squad); and the new case of RCMP dirty tricks.
Description
The International security network -- The men in the shadows -- The watcher service -- A seamy business -- In the beginning -- The Gouzenko defection -- Growing pains -- The separation fight: one -- The communist witch hunt -- The homosexual witch hunt -- The fruit machine -- Domestic discord -- Countering the KGB -- Non-Soviet espionage -- The separation fight: two -- Getting their men -- The May mutiny -- Operation ham -- The rise of E special -- Dirty tricks in Vancouver -- Public disclosure.
Biblio Notes
Includes index.
Number of Copies
1
