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Book SynopsisAward winning author Gregory S. Kealey's study of Canada's security and intelligence community before the end of World War II depicts a nation caught up in the Red Scare in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and tangled up with the imperial interests of first the United Kingdom and then the United States.
Trade Review"Canadians instantly recognize the CIA and Britain's MI5 as dramatized in film, fiction and folklore. Popular culture overlooks our own history of domestic surveillance. Spying on Canadians turns on the lights. It is an absorbing account of a hammer in search of a nail." -- Holly Doan The Blacklocks Reporter, Saturday, April 29, 2017
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I Nineteenth-Century Roots 1. The Empire Strikes Back: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Canadian Secret Service (1999) 2. The Origins of Political Policing in Canada: Class, Law and the Burden of Empire (2003), with Andy Parnaby Part II The Origins of the Long Cold War 3. State Repression of Labour and the Left in Canada, 1914-1920: The Impact of the First World War (1992) 4. The Surveillance State: The Origins of Domestic Intelligence and Counter-Subversion in Canada, 1914-1920 (1992) 5. The Early Years of State Surveillance of Labour and the Left in Canada: The Institutional Framework of the RCMP Security and Intelligence Apparatus, 1918-1928 (1993) 6. Spymasters, Spies, and their Subjects: The RCMP and Canadian State Repression, 1914-1939 (2000) 7. 'A War on Ethnicity?': The RCMP and Second World War Internment (2000), with Reg Whitaker Part III The Archival Trail 8. Filing and Defiling: The Organization of the State Security Archives in the Interwar Years (1998) 9. The RCMP, CSIS, the Public Archives of Canada, and Access to Information: A Curious Tale (1988)
