OTTAWA — Former intelligence official Cameron Jay Ortis violated Canada's secrets law by sending sensitive information to several individuals who were investigative targets of the police, a federal lawyer said Tuesday.
In an opening statement, Crown prosecutor Judy Kliewer sketched out the case against Ortis as a multi-week judge and jury trial got underway Tuesday in Ontario Superior Court.
Kliewer gave the jury a sense of how the case began, noting an RCMP effort known as Project Saturation revealed that members of criminal organizations were known to use the encrypted communication devices of a British Columbia-based company, Phantom Secure Communications. Further inquiries, including analysis of an encrypted memory key, would eventually lead the RCMP to conclude that Ortis had communicated secrets to Ramos, Kliewer told the court.
The charges against Ortis claim he communicated"special operational information" without authority while designated as a person"permanently bound to secrecy" — a category that includes numerous officials in the Canadian security and intelligence community.
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