Canada’s CSEC Spying for NSA (Video)

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Canada’s CSEC Spying for NSA: Set Up Covert Sites in 20 Countries, Including Trading Partners (Video)

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In Archive, Canada, CSEC, NSA, NSA Files, Surveillance on December 10, 2013 at 9:27 AM

Greg Weston/Glenn Greenwald/Ryan Gallagher/CBC:

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QUOTE: "Approval for CSEC to establish a covert spying post at the request of the NSA would have to come from the ministerial level of the Canadian government — or even from the prime minister himself."

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A top secret document retrieved by American whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals Canada has set up covert spying posts around the world and conducted espionage against trading partners at the request of the U.S. National Security Agency.

The leaked NSA document being reported exclusively by CBC News reveals Canada is involved with the huge American intelligence agency in clandestine surveillance activities in “approximately 20 high-priority countries.”

The four-page missive is stamped “Top Secret” and dated April 3, 2013. That makes it one of the freshest documents Snowden was able to walk away with before he went public in June.

Much of the document contains hyper-sensitive operational details which CBC News has chosen not to make public.

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“CSEC shares with the NSA their unique geographic access to areas unavailable to the U.S,” the document says.

“The intelligence exchange with CSEC covers worldwide national and transnational targets.”

“CSEC offers resources for advanced collection, processing and analysis, and has opened covert sites at the request of NSA,” the document states.

“Co-operative efforts include the exchange of liaison officers and integrees,” the document reveals, a reference to CSEC operatives working inside the NSA, and vice-versa.

It notes the NSA also supplies much of the computer hardware and software CSEC uses for encryption, decoding and other state-of-the-art essentials of electronic spying needed for “collection, processing and analytic efforts.”

In return, the NSA acknowledges that its Canadian counterpart provides the partnership with its own “cryptographic products, cryptanalysis, technology and software.”

Finally, the U.S. agency says CSEC has increased its investment in research and development projects “of mutual interest.”

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