Canadian naval intelligence officer charged with leaking secrets to the enemy

[fuji]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...-secrets-to-foreign-interests/article2304213/

Not many details out about exactly what he did yet, but few are charged under this law. It's not clear whether "foreign interest" was a foreign government, company, or something like Wikileaks.

A Halifax-area Royal Canadian Navy sub-lieutenant and intelligence officer has been charged under this country’s secrets law with passing secret government information to “a foreign entity.”

Jeffrey Paul Delisle of Bedford, N.S., has been charged under the 2001 Security of Information Act with criminal breach of trust and communicating “to a foreign entity information that the government of Canada is taking measures to safeguard.”

Government officials say this appears to be the first time that someone has been charged under section 16 (1) of this law in Canada. The legislation was passed after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Mr. Delisle, who was recently arrested, is being held in custody pending a bail hearing Tuesday.

Court documents sworn by Montreal RCMP Constable Alexandru Niculescu in Halifax Monday accuse Mr. Delisle of committing a criminal breach of trust between July 6, 2007 and Jan. 13, 2012 “at or near Ottawa and Kingston, Ont. and Halifax and Bedford.”

The documents also allege that the Forces member, between the same dates, “did ... communicate to a foreign entity information that the government of Canada is taking measures to safeguard, contrary to Section 16(1) of the Security of Information Act.”

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[mandrill]

I didn't realize we had any military secrets worth protecting.

 

[afterhours]

I didn't realize we had any military secrets worth protecting.

...and worth paying for. I wonder who bought it.

 

[danmand]

I didn't realize we had any military secrets worth protecting.

I didn't realize that we had any enemies.

 

[simon482]

leaking military secrets, dude should be locked up indefinitely waiting for a trial.

 

[fuji]

I didn't realize we had any military secrets worth protecting.

Shhh. That's the secret!

 

[Ref]

Perhaps the military should get some pointers from the management of CBC on how to keep information confidential

 

[GG2]

Show him no mercy.

 

[Aardvark154]

Sorry but this isn't funny at all. Besides, needless to say, the harm done to Canada, it brings the RCN, the Officer Corps and the Intelligence Community into disrepute.

 

[Aardvark154]

http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/52663-bedford-man-faces-espionage-charges

Even though the CAF does not have "up, or out" a 40 year old Sub-Lieutenant is either quite late in having been Commissioned, or very long in grade.

 

[danmand]

Sorry but this isn't funny at all. Besides, needless to say, the harm done to Canada, it brings the RCN, the Officer Corps and the Intelligence Community into disrepute.

It is deadly serious. The dispute with Denmark over Hans Island is getting out of hand. I hear that the Niels Bohr Institute has received massive funding for secret developments.

 

[Aardvark154]

Answering my own question above. According to the Canadian Press he joined the Naval Reserve in the ranks in 1996 and became a member of the regular force in 2001, and was Commissioned in 2008.

 

[mandrill]

It is deadly serious. The dispute with Denmark over Hans Island is getting out of hand. I hear that the Niels Bohr Institute has received massive funding for secret developments.

I believe he is alleged to have sold secrets to the Russians. Apparently, the RCN has a top secret pilot project wherein Canadian polar bears travel to the Russian side of the north pole and try and get the Russian polar bears to defect to Canada.

 

[lamgos]

Because he was caught I can tell he was not working for the Chinese. Chinese intelligence operations are too sophisticated to be discovered.

 

[Aardvark154]

Because he was caught I can tell he was not working for the Chinese. Chinese intelligence operations are too sophisticated to be discovered.

No, but they tend to recruit ethnic Chinese

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/16/california.espionage.conviction/index.html

http://www.thetrumpet.com/?page=article&id=3209

 

[Ceiling Cat]

No, but they tend to recruit ethnic Chinese

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/16/california.espionage.conviction/index.html

http://www.thetrumpet.com/?page=article&id=3209

Or pay off malcontents that have an ax to grind.

Sub-Lieutenant is two ranks up from Naval Cadet, he is a very junior officer. I suspect that he had sensitive information about equipment used by the RNC, but not Naval operations or ship movements. I suspect he probably was actively trying to make a sale of such information when he was caught.

 

[Aardvark154]

Sub-Lieutenant is two ranks up from Naval Cadet, he is a very junior officer. I suspect that he had sensitive information about equipment used by the RNC, but not Naval operations or ship movements. I suspect he probably was actively trying to make a sale of such information when he was caught.

However, he spent 12 years below decks (in the ranks).

 

[Ceiling Cat]

However, he spent 12 years below decks (in the ranks).

In his recent position as Sub-Lieutenant me may have been privy to some minor sensitive information, perhaps some RCN equipment in use, radio and communications frequencies and codes. ( which will be obsolete soon or changed because the info has been compromised )
The 12 years below decks he would have info in the types of chow they served on some ships. What info can a non-com give up?

 

[Aardvark154]

In his recent position as Sub-Lieutenant me may have been privy to some minor sensitive information, perhaps some RCN equipment in use, radio and communications frequencies and codes. ( which will be obsolete soon or changed because the info has been compromised )
The 12 years below decks he would have info in the types of chow they served on some ships. What info can a non-com give up?

Three names:

Chief Warrant Officer John Walker, Chief Petty Officer Jerry Whitworth and Specialist Bradley Manning.

 

[lamgos]

There are very few Chinese (or other cerebrally superior ethnic groups) in the military for the simple reason that the pay is too low for their standards.

No, but they tend to recruit ethnic Chinese

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/16/california.espionage.conviction/index.html

http://www.thetrumpet.com/?page=article&id=3209