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Author Whitaker, Reginald, 1943-

Title Secret service : political policing in Canada : from the Fenians to fortress America / Reg Whitaker, Gregory S. Kealey, and Andrew Parnaby.

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (pages)
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Contents Introduction: Political Policing in Canada -- Part One: Origins -- 1 The Empire Strikes Back -- 2 'You Drive Us Hindus out of Canada and We Will Drive Every White Man out of India!' -- 3 A War on Two Fronts -- Part Two: Survival and Revival -- 4 The RCMP, the Communist Party, and the Consolidation of Canada's Cold War -- 5 'Redder Than Ever': Political Policing during the Great Depression -- 6 Keep the Home Fires Burning, 1939-45 -- Part Three: Cold War Canada -- 7 The Ice Age: Mounties on the Cold War Front Line, 1945-69 -- 8 The Coyote, the Roadrunner, and the Reds under the Bed: Communist Espionage and Subversion -- Part Four: Separatists, Scandals, and Reform -- 9 National Unity, National Security: The Quebec Conundrum, 1960-84 -- 10 'I'm Shocked, Shocked to Find That Gambling Is Going on in Here!': The Creation of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service -- 11 Old Wine into New Bottles: CSIS, 1984-2001 -- Part Five: After the Twin Towers -- 12 After the Deluge: In the Shadow of the Twin Towers, 2001-11 -- 13 No More Mr Nice Spy: CSIS and the Dark Side of the War on Terror -- Conclusion : Policing Canadian Democracy.
Summary Secret Service highlights the many tensions that arise when undercover police and their covert methods are deployed too freely in a liberal democratic society.
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Subject Secret service -- Canada -- History.
Secret service.
Canada.
History.
Intelligence service -- Canada -- History.
Intelligence service.
Police -- Political aspects -- Canada -- History.
Police.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Police.
Added Author Kealey, Gregory S., 1948-
Parnaby, Andrew, 1970-
Other Form: Print version: 9780802007520 080200752X (OCoLC)791163248
ISBN 9781442662377 (electronic book)
1442662379 (electronic book)
9780802007520 (bound)
080200752X (bound)
9780802078018 (paperback)
080207801X (paperback)