• m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    Please label links to french articles with the “french” language next time.

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      19 hours ago

      Our spooks are so good even our own government doesn’t know they exist!

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        18 hours ago

        Sounds like a Murdoch Mysteries plot. Terence Myers establishes a top secret spy org financed through the Maple Syrup Reserve…

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    20 hours ago

    I think your title meant to say, “Canada is the only G7 countries without a foreign intelligence agency.”

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      19 hours ago

      The way I understand CSIS is it’s more focused on tracking online actions, akin to chats plotting terrorism. I dont think they focus on actual bodies in other countries or tracking other country activities.

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          19 hours ago

          Huh Til… sounds like many other agencies that are there in spirit… but semi gutted and underfunded in reality.

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        19 hours ago

        They’ve been around since 1984 and they used to do much more than just online stuff.

        The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS, SCRS) is a foreign intelligence service and security agency of the federal government of Canada. It is responsible for gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world and conducting covert action within Canada and abroad. The CSIS has no law enforcement function and mainly focuses on intelligence gathering overseas.

        I’ve had family work there, but obviously they never talked about it much so maybe I just misunderstood what they were doing exactly.

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    19 hours ago

    I hear it’s pretty easy these days, you just gotta ask to join the group chat and then you’ll be in the loop and stuff. Just gotta remember to ask about new secret activities because they like to have a new group chat sometimes eg “hey are you guys planning any covert black ops atm be sweet if you could add me to the chat” and they’ll be like “sure are you still on the same number” and there you go

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    19 hours ago

    Oh wow really? I thought you guys had one the entire time.

    I feel like there’s a meme to be made on this…