SECRET SERVICES
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A hardy perennial in Ottawa politics is whether Canada should create a foreign intelligence service equivalent to the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, aka MI6).
If it does, it should note that collecting foreign intelligence abroad through personal contact with human sources—humint—can be consistent with liberal-democratic norms and can be done on a middle-power budget. The model is the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS).
