Wanted by military: Spy 'role players' to help train special forces on surveillance and counter-surveillance
The Department of National Defence is recruiting actors for a unique role: to be participants in real-life spy-vs-spy exercises.
Some of the role players would conduct surveillance and be targets of it without talking to the trainees, others will try to “extract” clues in person-to-person verbal interaction, says the tender document. The surveillance training is run out of the Dwyer Hill Training Centre near Ottawa, home to the JTF2, but the instruction is not for any specific type of special forces members, said Beler.
Gen. Mike Rouleau, then CANSOFCOM’s commanding officer, hinted at the need for surveillance training in a 2016 Toronto Star interview, saying that not all the special forces’ work involves “gunfire.” The company, which provides training to intelligence and special-forces personnel in the U.S. military, hires experts in surveillance, who sometimes represent specific cultures or languages, said Alfredo R. Quiros, Telum’s CEO.
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