Jeffrey Deslisle-former RCN, convicted of spying

[Scoobie Newbie]

Well maybe since light has been shone on the weakness it will compel the Intelligence community to get their shit together sooner then later.

 

[Edward Campbell]

There are, at the highest level of "the Harper government," sectretariats (staff branches) that are very well aware of "the alternatives available to pursue suspects subject to the Code of Service discipline" and who are equally aware of the capabilities and limitations of the military police, the Canadian Forces National Counter-Intelligence Unit, and the Military Justice Systems.

My guess would be that the people at the very top of the national intelligence business ~ none of whom wear uniforms and all of whom work in PCO* ~ decided, after consulting with similarly highly placed people in e.g. America, Australia, Britain, New Zealand, etc, that they wanted the best shot at a proper, professional investigation and a solid, appeal proof conviction so they went with real police, professional CI folks and civil courts.


Edit to add:
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* There is a commodore/brigadier general assigned to the Privy Council Office, as an advisor, but (s)he is NOT "at the very top" of any of the policy/security/defence/intelligence secretariats.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

As long as he gets nailed to the wall as hard as possible, I am happy with the end result regardless of the method.

 

[Emilio]

As long as he gets nailed to the wall as hard as possible, I am happy with the end result regardless of the method.

My thoughts exactly.  :nod:

 

[kratz]

Reference: CBC.ca

Convicted spy released on parole less than halfway into sentence
Former Canadian navy officer, 47, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sharing secrets with Russia
Gabrielle Fahmy · CBC News · Posted: Aug 21, 2018 4:32 PM AT


The Parole Board of Canada decided Tuesday to release convicted spy Jeffrey Delisle on day parole, after a two-hour hearing at Dorchester Penitentiary in New Brunswick.

Delisle, 47, a former Canadian naval intelligence officer, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for, in the words of the  sentencing judge, "coldly and rationally" selling secrets to Russia.

It was considered Canada's biggest spy scandal in more than half a century. 

The RCMP arrested Delisle in January 2012, charging him with two counts of communicating information to a foreign entity without lawful authority and with breach of trust.

He was sent to prison in February 2013.

More at link

 

[dapaterson]

And in the "Before you knew it" department, Navy spy Jeffrey Delisle granted full parole

https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2019/03/08/jailed-navy-spy-jeffrey-delisle-granted-full-parole-federal-board/#.XILYrihKi71

 

[Czech_pivo]

In a number of countries around the world this person would have been executed or never be let of prison. 

Here in Canada, being a spy (traitor) while in the service of your countries armed forces results in only 6yrs in prison and then some parole.....

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEHP3jPEcgiAbXr_4soCVAd4qGQgEKhAIACoHCAow6f-ICzDjj4gDMK2RnwY

 

[Remius]

I'm probably picking fly crap out of pepper but the topic thread seems to indicate that he was spy that worked for the Navy.

 

[kratz]

He''ll be home before 90% of you guys a new posting.....

Bruce,

What are the winning Lotto 6/49 numbers this week?    ;D

 

[OceanBonfire]

Russian spy case had its documents lost, destroyed: Canada’s information watchdog

By Jim Bronskill
The Canadian Press

Federal officials lost or possibly destroyed sensitive records about the case of a naval officer convicted of selling secrets to Russia, an investigation by Canada’s information commissioner has found.

The commissioner’s probe, which involved the country’s top public servant and the prime minister’s national-security adviser, left key questions unanswered because the classified records about the spy case could not be located.

The episode began seven years ago when The Canadian Press filed an Access to Information Act request with the Privy Council Office for briefing notes, emails and reports about the case of Jeffrey Delisle from a three-week period in the spring of 2013.

Delisle, a troubled junior naval officer, had been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to passing classified western intelligence to Russia in exchange for cash on a regular basis for more than four years.

The access law, intended to ensure government transparency, allows people who pay a $5 fee to ask for a wide array of federal documents, with some specific exceptions.

The Privy Council Office, the apex of the federal bureaucracy, responded in August 2013 that the records concerning Delisle would be entirely withheld from release because they dealt with matters such as investigations, international relations and detection of subversive or hostile activities.

The Canadian Press complained the following month to the information commissioner, an ombudsman for users of the law who has the power to review documents and decide whether they have been properly withheld.

The events that followed were detailed this month in a letter to the news agency from information commissioner Caroline Maynard.

The commissioner’s office asked in 2013 for an uncensored copy of the files to examine and the Privy Council Office said arrangements would be made for an investigator to view the sensitive records on site.

However, it appears more than five years passed before the commissioner’s office followed up.

In July 2019, the deputy director of the Privy Council Office corporate-services branch told one of the commissioner’s investigators the documents had “most likely” been inadvertently destroyed.

Maynard then issued an order to Greta Bossenmaier, the national security and intelligence adviser to the prime minister at the time, to produce the records — a move aimed at determining whether they had indeed been purged.

In late November, the Privy Council Office’s director of Access to Information replied on Bossenmaier’s behalf that the Privy Council Office could neither locate the records nor confirm if they had been destroyed.

The director provided a few more clues: in 2013, an access analyst viewed the records in a secure area of the office’s security and intelligence secretariat. They were then placed in a folder that appears to have been returned to a different cabinet.

“Should the documents be located, PCO will inform your office,” he wrote.

As the PCO had still not confirmed the status of the documents, Maynard asked Privy Council clerk Ian Shugart in a Dec. 30, 2019, letter to provide any existing records by Jan. 20.

“I also urged the clerk to ensure that PCO take the necessary steps to guarantee that all records relevant to ongoing (Access to Information) complaints are properly stored,” says Maynard’s letter to The Canadian Press.

The Privy Council Office’s assistant deputy minister replied to Maynard last month that the records could not be found and called the matter “an isolated incident.”

Since the incident, the PCO “has committed to ensuring a more rigorous approach” is taken with such requests, said Pierre-Alain Bujold, a Privy Council Office spokesman.

The PCO says it now directs officials to make copies of sensitive documents, ensure the request number is prominently displayed, and place the file in a centralized vault for safekeeping and future reference.

Natalie Bartlett, a spokeswoman for Maynard, declined to comment, saying the access law doesn’t allow the office to discuss an investigation unless and until it is published in a report.

In her letter to The Canadian Press, Maynard, who became commissioner in March 2018, apologized for the delay in investigating the complaint.

“Your complaint has brought to the fore both the importance of institutions’ proper identification and preservation of responsive records, as well as the importance of conducting timely investigations.”

Maynard said that upon her appointment she instituted measures to ensure older complaints “continue to be actively pursued and that files do not remain unassigned for lengthy periods of time.”

She added that in this case, without the records, “I cannot effectively assess whether PCO was justified in refusing access, in whole or in part, under the act, nor can I prospectively recommend that information, incapable of being located, be disclosed.”


https://globalnews.ca/news/6585417/jeffrey-delisle-watchdog-russia-spy/