Spying on Canadians : The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service and the Origins of the Long Cold War - Gregory S. Kealey

Spying on Canadians

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service and the Origins of the Long Cold War

By: Gregory S. Kealey

Paperback | 24 February 2017

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Award winning author Gregory S. Kealey's study of Canada's security and intelligence community before the end of World War II depicts a nation caught up in the Red Scare in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and tangled up with the imperial interests of first the United Kingdom and then the United States.


Spying on Canadians brings together over twenty five years of research and writing about political policing in Canada. Through itse use of the Dominion Police and later the RCMP, Canada repressed the labour movement and the political left in defense of capital. The collection focuses on three themes; the nineteenth-century roots of political policing in Canada, the development of a national security system in the twentieth-century, and the ongoing challenges associated with research in this area owing to state secrecy and the inadequacies of access to information legislation. This timely collection alerts all Canadians to the need for the vigilant defence of civil liberties and human rights in the face of the ever increasing intrusion of the state into our private lives in the name of countersubversion and counterterrorism.

Industry Reviews
"Canadians instantly recognize the CIA and Britain's MI5 as dramatized in film, fiction and folklore. Popular culture overlooks our own history of domestic surveillance. Spying on Canadians turns on the lights. It is an absorbing account of a hammer in search of a nail." -- Holly Doan The Blacklocks Reporter, Saturday, April 29, 2017

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