CREC 6436 Canada in the World Part II

Canada & the World CREC 6436 PART II Security Issues A brief overview of the functions and operations of Canada’s Department of Global Affairs Bob Hillier

There are two Federal Government Institutions we should take a quick look at.

1. CSIS - Staff – 2500, Budget 516 million, Minister Ralph Goodale Hived off from RCMP Security division in 1984 Discuss bureaucracy

What do they do ???? 1 Provide security checks and classifications for all Government Departments Discuss Confidential, Secret, Top Secret (loyalty) 2. Investigate terrorist threats (internally and offshore) agents in some sensitive missions etc. Discuss Bartoff case, 3.Weapons of Mass Destruction Investigating a growing number of foreign states and terrorist organizations that seek to develop and produce weapons of mass destruction, including chemical, biological, nuclear, and radiological weapons. 4. Espionage & Foreign Interference Investigating clandestine activities by foreign governments that put Canada's national security at risk. Discuss Keeping track of foreign diplomats, spying on government departments etc.

2. CSE COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT •To acquire and use information from the global information infrastructure for the purpose of providing foreign intelligence, in accordance with Government of Canada intelligence priorities. •To provide advice, guidance and services to help ensure the protection of electronic information and of information infrastructures of importance to the Government of Canada. •To provide technical and operational assistance to federal law enforcement and security agencies in the performance of their lawful duties.

Organisation Staff 1900, Budget 829 million Minister - Minister of Defense Harjit Sajjan Chief - Greta Bossenmaier Originally part of the NRC from 1946 th Was a top secret organization until CBC 5 Estate program in 1974 https://www.cse-cst.gc.ca/en/about-apropos/chief-chef Apart from the Building in Ottawa it controls a military signals listing station in Leitrim outside of Ottawa This establishment remotely controls radio intercept stations in Alert, Nunavut Gander NFL and Masset BC. Some of these duties are holdovers from the “cold war”. SIGINT Discuss 5 flags., Echelon etc.



Leitrim - just outside of Ottawa





Aerial near Gander airport

The CSE antenna at Masset – similar to the one in Gander

Communications places if interest in BC 1. Massett CSE 2. Bamfield Cable relay station - All red route 3. Aldergrove Pacific Cable Backup – paired with Irrirangi in NZ 4. Green Island - North Pacific Loran stn (with Hawaii and Alaska) 5. Ocean Station Papa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Red_Line http://nauticapedia.ca/Gallery/Cable_Innovator.php



Other Functions of CSE IT Security Global Affairs, CBSA, RCMP, National Defense Discuss COMSEC Crypto Systems and analysis Discuss Foreign Signal Intelligence service CRAY Computers COMSEC TEMPEST Discuss Red/Black etc Bugs, Sweeps Discuss Confidential, Secret, Top Secret Protected “A”, Protected “B” etc.

In 1946, Soviet school children presented a two foot wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States to Ambassador Averell Harriman. The Ambassador hung the seal in his office in Spaso House (Ambassador's residence). During George F. Kennan's ambassadorship in 1952, a secret technical surveillance countermeasures (TSCM) inspection discovered that the seal contained a microphone and a resonant cavity which could be stimulated from an outside radio signal.

The United States built a secret tunnel under the Soviet Embassy in Washington, but investigators believe the operation was betrayed by the FBI agent accused of spying for Moscow, Cost according to a New York Times report. Several hundred million dollars This operation, which current U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials indicated was run jointly by the FBI and the National Security Agency, was part of a broad American effort to eavesdrop on Soviet - later Russian - facilities and personnel operating in the United States, the paper's Sunday Internet In contravention of edition wrote. the Vienna protocols Incensed by the report, Russia's Foreign Ministry on Monday demanded that the United States provide details. The ministry issued a statement suggesting that Moscow was officially unaware of the tunnel's existence. If the report is true, the statement said, \"this will be a flagrant violation of the recognized norms of international law that throughout the world govern relations with foreign diplomatic missions.\" \"If it were true that such a tunnel were dug, I couldn't talk about it anyway,\" Vice President Dick Cheney told CBS News' Face The Nation on Sunday.

Lets look at some TEMPEST equipment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

Cryptology (Encoding and decoding) Code V C I Y J G X Key 1234567 Base A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z To decode we need a key. This could be many things 1. One time pad 2. Common book (say a Gideon bible) 3 Machine 4. Other methods could be invisible ink, micro dots, hidden in text

Here is a picture I took in the Polish War museum in Warsaw. These are the original Enigma machines captured by the Poles and given to the British for their work in “Bletchley Park” see movie “The imitation Game” Discuss Colossus https://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=G2_Q9FoD- oQ

Some modern versions





Official Secrets Act Who are these guys

Things the government does in your name Rendition (USA) Torture (USA, Russia, China, UK, France, etc.) Criminal Records Associations Propriety Business Info Relationships Medical Records Arrangements with other countries (secret clauses in NAFTA, TPP etc Documents Positions in Treaty Negotiations Military equipment and operational details