中央社/加拿大安全情报局（Canadian Security Intelligence Service）14日公布的年度报告指出，由于与北大西洋公约组织（NATO）的关系，加拿大成为外国间谍工作目标。该报告虽没有指出那些国家在加拿大做间谍工作，但该局在过去曾指出，中国是首号嫌犯。
加拿大安全情报局2007─08年度报告指出，加拿大是北约组织会员国，同时亦是许多双边及多边防卫协议签约国，因此可以获得盟邦的国防及军事科技。
由于这些便利，所以外国间谍、国际犯罪及恐怖组织等，都想经由加拿大获取这些高度机密情报。加拿大安全情报局局长朱德（Jim Judd）表示，外国间谍过去数十年来，从未停止过在加拿大做情报。近几年来，这些活动更趋积极和复杂。安全情报局因此将外国间谍活动，列为该局第2号须注意的问题，仅次于恐怖组织活动。
报告指出，外国情报官员最近秘密在加设立据点，搜集、窃取科技及智慧产权情报。报告还指出，外国情报官员为取得加拿大合法居留身份，还使用伪造证件。
安全情报局年度报告指出，加拿大是一个多元文化国家。一些外国情报官员因此在自己族裔小区内，运用影响力企图干涉加拿大内政。
安全情报局年度报告，虽未指明那些国家在加拿大做间谍工作，但该局在过去曾指出，中国是首号嫌犯。
2006年，进步保守党（Progressive ConservativeParty）政府曾表示，对于中国在加拿大进行的广泛商业间谍活动感到忧虑。北京驳斥为无稽之谈。
2005年，一名在加拿大申请政治庇护的中国官员曾表示，中国在加拿大有1000多名间谍。这些间谍的部份工作是监视加拿大华人小区活动。加拿大安全情报局在全球30个国家派有50多名工作人员。他们主要的工作是及早发现对加拿大的威胁，保护国家安全。
More foreign spies targeting Canada: report
David Ljunggren
Reuters
OTTAWA– Foreign nations have stepped up their efforts to infiltrate Canada and steal valuable industrial, military and commercial secrets, the Canadian spy agency says in its latest annual report.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) also expressed concern about foreign interference in the country’s domestic affairs, given Canada’s multicultural makeup and large immigrant communities.
The report for the year 2007-2008 was quietly posted on the agency’s website earlier this month with no publicity. No one at the agency was immediately available for comment.
“Foreign espionage – the primary preoccupation of intelligence agencies right up until the 1990s – continued unabated after (the) 9/11 (attacks on the United States). It is in fact growing and becoming even more sophisticated and aggressive through the application of new technologies,” the report said.
Foreign spies are interested in sectors such as agriculture, biotechnology, communications, oil exploitation, mining, aerospace and control systems engineering, it said.
CSIS also noted that Canada – as a member of NATO and the signatory to numerous defense agreements – had access to military technologies through its allies.
“The advantages found in our open and prosperous industrial and private sectors that attract business and investment opportunities are also the same attractive attributes sought by foreign intelligence agencies, international criminal gangs and global terrorist organizations,” it said.
Although the CSIS report did not name any countries trying to steal secrets, officials at the agency have said in the past that China is a prime suspect.
In 2006, the Conservative government announced it was very worried by the extent of Chinese industrial espionage. Beijing dismissed the charge as baseless.
In 2005, a Chinese defector alleged Beijing had more than 1,000 spies in Canada, in part to keep an eye on the large expatriate community.
The CSIS report says “foreign interference in domestic affairs, especially in multicultural societies with large immigrant communities such as ours, also remains an issue of concern”.
CSIS said foreign agents used forged and false documentation as well as fake companies to enter the country, where they engage in “covert theft, source recruitment and handling, and intimidation of immigrant communities”.
The report says the agency’s main counter-terrorism priority is the threat posed by people inspired by the militant ideology of al Qaeda.
“Fortunately, to date nothing has matched the casualties inflicted in the 9/11 attacks, but this does not mean that the threat is disappearing. To become complacent or to spread a belief that Canada is immune from such threats could potentially have a tragic, devastating outcome,” it said.
Head of CSIS stepping down
In surprise move, Jim Judd is leaving before end of his term as chief of spy agency
Apr 15, 2009 04:30 AM
Tonda MacCharles
Bruce Campion-Smith
OTTAWA BUREAU
OTTAWA – In a surprise move, the head of Canada’s spy agency is stepping down after just over four years in the job.
“The director (Jim Judd) is near the end of his term and is retiring after serving 36 years in the government,” Canadian Security Intelligence Service spokesperson Manon Bérubé told the Star, adding that Judd will retire in June.
A long-time diplomat and bureaucrat, Judd, 61, was appointed to a five-year term as head of the spy agency in November 2004. Previously, he had served as secretary of the Treasury Board and deputy minister at the Department of National Defence.
A separate government official said last night that a search is already underway to find a replacement to head the agency, which operates in Canada and abroad to probe what it calls threats to Canadians, including terrorism and espionage.
Judd had given no signal he intended to retire. Under him, and his predecessor Ward Elcock, the agency emerged after 9/11 with much more resources and increased staffing.
Last spring, Judd observed the post-9/11 push to knit together many national security organizations and agencies is still “a work in progress.”
“The result has been a rash of institutional `marriages’ – some the result of shotgun weddings.”
Although Judd’s term at the head of CSIS saw the spy agency go through several inquiries – the O’Connor inquiry into Maher Arar’s torture ordeal in Syria, the Iacobucci inquiry into three other Muslim-Canadian cases, and the still-unfinished Air India inquiry – CSIS had escaped much of the blame to date.
Appearing recently at a parliamentary committee, Judd gave a vigorous defence of the agency after a senior CSIS official said there was no outright ban on the use of information extracted through torture.
Judd said the official had “got it wrong.” He insisted it did not use or condone the use of torture in its intelligence-gathering.
He called CSIS the most reviewed intelligence agency in the world. He took pride in pointing out that of nearly two dozen recommendations that emerged out of the O’Connor inquiry, only a handful directly related to CSIS’s handling of sensitive information. That inquiry largely blamed the RCMP.
Still, the torture testimony Judd was forced to disown two weeks ago had embarrassed the government.
It contradicted assertions by the Conservatives that the practices that led to the detention and torture of four Canadian citizens – practices that were condemned by two public inquiries – happened under the previous Liberal government. The Conservative government insists policies under its watch have changed.
A consummate discreet bureaucrat, Judd nonetheless frequently made news when he appeared in Parliament to answer questions on CSIS budget or policy. He insisted from the get-go that CSIS had never exported or aided another country to ship abroad suspected terrorists for tough interrogations or torture.
Judd said CSIS had “neither” directly nor indirectly been involved in the controversial practice known in the U.S. as “extraordinary rendition” – the deportation of suspected terrorists to countries such as Syria, Jordan and Morocco that have little regard for human rights abuses during interrogations.
“Not to my knowledge,” Judd told a parliamentary committee.
Judd portrayed CSIS as a spy service struggling to stay on top of the moving target that are modern terrorist networks, and to cope with public pressure for accountability.
