bout de papier, Volume 26, Issue No. 3, 2012
The Moscow Rules
CANADIANS WILL REMEMBER TONY MENDEZ as the CIA operative who assisted in the exfiltration of the “American guests” in Teheran in 1980. This book is about his background as the CIA’s master of disguise, inventing ways to meet Russians in Moscow at…
The Traitor Who Wasn’t
Herbert Norman was a senior and respected Canadian diplomat hounded to his suicide, in Cairo in 1957, by American McCarthyites seizing on his dalliance with the ideas of communism. Norman was interested in Marxist thought, and probably remained a moderate socialist throughout his life… but he was not a life-long communist and did not betray […]
Superforecasting
On August 17, 2007, George Soros hosted twenty of Wall Street’s most senior financiers to lunch at his Long Island estate. Earlier in the month, BNP Paribas had frozen withdrawals from three of its funds and central bankers around the world were…
Exceptional Circumstances
Editor’s Note: We have received two reviews. Harold Hickman, and one from an active FS L both for your reading pleasure.
Useful Secrets: Intelligence for Canadian Foreign Policy Professionals
When left the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) in 2006 to join the International Assessment Staff (IAS) of the Privy Council Office — one of the main intelligence assessment bodies of the government of Canada — entered a world…
DFAIT’s Global Security Reporting Program
Mot de la rédaction : Selon une blague usée, « renseignement militaire » serait la définition parfaite d’un oxymoron. Certains pourraient croire qu il en est de même de diplomatie et renseignement, mais, comme dans le cas de l’armée, c’est le contraire…
Spies Left in the Cold?
The foreign intelligence mandate of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade is one of its lesser known responsibilities. The department collects, collates, and disseminates foreign intelligence in support of the foreign policy process.
Hidden Secrets: A Complete History of Espionage and the Technology Used to Support It
This book is directed at the individual who is casually interested by the world of intrigue and wants an enlightening book which can be consumed in easily read short segments. The book relies heavily on photographs to present its story of the…
The True ’Intrepid’ and the Unknown Agents
Bill Stephenson, the Canadian-born head of the British Security Coordination in the United States during World War II, was a genuine hero. He also appears to have been something of an enigma who was not always well-served by those who have written…
