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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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"Snitch! offers a vivid account of how some citizens actively assist state surveillance by "informing" on others."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Informers --- Intelligence service --- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
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"This book investigates the surveillance of the women's liberation movement by the RCMP's Security Service, beginning in the late 1960s and stretching into the mid-1980s during the feminist second wave. It is based upon a close reading of thousands of pages of documents declassified under Canada's Access to Information Act (ATI). Spotted Throughout with Red considers both the machinations of the security service and the rise and fall of the feminist movement, with particular attention paid to its broad transnational origins and influences and the elusive quest for unity across lines of ideology, identity, and sexuality, among other markers of difference. Spying on the women's liberation movement is an example of the broadening of state surveillance from a narrow anti-Communist focus to a variety of domestic targets identified with the left. At the same time, state surveillance of the women's liberation movement, which focused mainly on gender equality, differed from spying on other women's organizations connected to trade unionism or communism. Crucially, the files show how this male-dominated police force, staffed only by men until 1974, had particular expectations and interpretations of the women liberationists' appearance and behaviour which coloured their understanding of a movement intent on sparking a revolutionary reboot of gender relations. They also reveal the use of women informants, which significantly troubles the notion of sisterhood and has potentially serious consequences for those who took part in the movement. The authors reflect on the historiographical, methodological, and ethical challenges associated with using state surveillance files. Rising to the surface is the form and texture of everyday activism and surveillance, and the multiple ways in which those quotidian realities interconnected over time. By positioning surveillance of the women's liberation movement in Canada firmly within the context of the Cold War, the book aims to contribute to scholarship in surveillance studies, widen our understanding of state surveillance during the "long sixties," and to provide a new perspective on the history of feminist activism. More broadly, domestic surveillance of second wave feminism is a critical bridge linking a period that concentrated on communism and subversion in the late 20th century to a focus on terrorism and extremism in the 21st century."--
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