Posted on 02/17/2017 2:50:33 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Central Intelligence Agency documents released by WikiLeaks Thursday list Canada as one of several countries asked to assist the United States while they spied on the 2012 French presidential election.
The three CIA tasking orders request that current French president Francois Hollande, then president Nicolas Sarkozy and current first round presidential front runner Marine Le Pen all be closely monitored.
CIA officers were asked to uncover the secret strategies of the candidates, as well as information on internal power dynamics within the parties. Canada is listed as one of five countries working on human intelligence parts of the operation however there are no specifics on which parts of the operation, if any, Canada was involved in.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Communications Security Establishment Canada, and the Department of Global Affairs did not immediately reply to requests for comment. Ashley Lemire, senior communications advisor at the Department of National Defence, told the National Post: “The Government of Canada does not comment on leaked documents. . ."
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Am still waiting for Vault 7.
The purpose of intelligence agencies is to gather intelligence on friend and foe by various methods. Additional news FLASH: water is wet.
I’m guessing because we don’t employ any CIA agents who actually speak French...
Gee I wonder: Who was the president then?
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