Covert Entry: Spies, Lies and Crimes inside Canada's Secret Service. (Book Notice).Covert Entry: Spies, Lies and Crimes inside Canada's Secret Service by Andrew Mitrovica, Random House of Canada, 2002, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-67931116-5, $35.95 (cloth). Covert Entry is an unprecedented look at the inner workings of Canada's domestic secret service by a leading investigative reporter. It presents an "alarming portrait of incompetence" by the agency that is supposed to protect Canadians from terrorism. At its core, Covert Entry traces the eventful career of a veteran undercover operative who worked on some of the service's most sensitive cases and was ordered to break the law by senior CSIS Noun 1. CSIS - Canada's main foreign intelligence agency that gathers and analyzes information to provide security intelligence for the Canadian government Canadian Security Intelligence Service (Canadian Security Intelligence Service Noun 1. Canadian Security Intelligence Service - Canada's main foreign intelligence agency that gathers and analyzes information to provide security intelligence for the Canadian government CSIS ) officers in the name of national security. This book delivers a ground-level, day-to-day look at how clandestine operations are run in Canada. Andrew Mitrovica is a leading investigative journalist in Canada and the winner of many national and international awards for his reporting. He has worked at the fifth estate, CTV National News CTV National News is CTV's flagship newscast, which airs at 11:00pm local time on the main network across Canada, and live at 10:00pm ET, with repeats hourly up until 2am ET on CTV Newsnet, CTV's 24-hour cable news channel. , W5, and, most recently, the Globe and Mail, where he covered security Covered Security A class of securities, created by the NSIMA, that enjoys federally imposed exemptions from state restrictions and regulations. Most stocks trading in the US are covered securities. and intelligence issues. |
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