Covert Entry: Spies, Lies and Crimes Inside Canada's Secret Service

By Andrew Mitrovica

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679311165
• ISBN13: 9780679311164
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Random House of Canada Ltd
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.1" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Learn how incompetent CSIS is

This is a book written about John Farrell, a postal inspector for Canada Post. John is paid to spy on Canada Post employees and union leaders. Most of the time there is no clear reason why he is spying on these employees, except to please senior officials. He would sneak into garbage, read incoming & outgoing mail, and keep large dossiers on each employee. This was done without cause, without court orders, and wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax payers money.Afterwards, John is recruited by CSIS.It should be noted that CSIS was started after the RCMP spy service was abolished for fraud. This book proves that while the RCMP spy service was modified to become CSIS, nothing that was important changed. Fraud was ongoing, and pure incompetence is still running rampant.Secret information often falls into the wrong hands, including that of petty criminals. Laws are broken for no clear reason. Money is wasted on investigating non-matters while important investigations are forgotten about. Laws are broken for friends or politicians. Furthermore, this is never reported, because CSIS is free from all accountability, and are capable of silencing anyone who speaks out against them.What is probably worse is that this is a clear indication that Canada is currently incapable of protecting our country from terrorism. CSIS is out there more for the sake of being seen then actually doing something.I hope that everyone reads this, too many Canadians are under the illusion that the RCMP and CSIS are actually here to protect its people. It wouldn't take much to outsmart either of these organizations.

An entertaining and disturbing read

This book shines a necessary light on the inner workings of Canada's spy service....more like Keystone Kops service. As a Canadian, I was shocked and appalled by by what the author has uncovered and I am at a loss to undertsand how people can get away with such incompetence and corruption in the name of national security. Beyond that, I found the book really drew me into the world of spies and intrigue and showed how Canada really is a place teeming with espionage. I recommend this book highly. A real page-turner.

Covert Entry

I found this book exciting, thrilling and captivating. After seeing it on Canada A.M talk show. I thought it was an important and interesting book to read? It reads like a fiction novel and raises some very important questions about the state of security in a post September environment. The principle character in Covert Entry was recruited by CSIS because of his criminal background and his abilities to get things done at whatever the cost. He seemed to be the only one to actually break the law to get things done in the name of national Security. This book raises some very serious questions and places little confidence in Csis and the government of Canada to protect Canadian form Terrorism and foreign spies.Overall, an outstanding book.

The Truth

People are always frightened by the truth, but as we all know the truth is the only way we can change as hard as it seems. This book oppens the eyes into what we think or don't think about government. Open your mind and this book will educate you on the real world not the TV world.Findlay Wihlidal