Canada's integration into global intelligence-sharing networks: from Gouzenko to the Montreal Olympics. Issue 7 (10th November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Clément, Dominique
• Is Part Of: Intelligence and national security. Volume 33:Issue 7(2018)
• Page Start: 1053
• Page End: 1069
• Publication Date: 2018-11-10
• Subjects: Espionage -- Periodicals; Intelligence service -- Periodicals; National security -- Periodicals; 327.12
• DOI: 10.1080/02684527.2018.1518290
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0268-4527

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The following article demonstrates how the 1945–6 Gouzenko Affair and the 1976 Montreal Olympics contributed to Canada's integration into global intelligence-sharing networks. It also argues that the Olympics instigated a significant shift in national security priorities in Canada from communism to international terrorism. It is based on more than 2000 pages of documents released by the British government related to the Gouzenko Affair as well as over 50, 000 pages of RCMP records on the security plan for the Montreal Olympics.