David Vigneault’s surprise retirement as CSIS director came just weeks after tensions were revealed. Whoever gets his job will have more than foreign interference to face.
WATCH: The former head of Canada 's spy agency, Canadian Security Intelligence Service , appeared for a second time at the inquiry into foreign interference in April. David Vigneault was not initially scheduled as the last witness. It was supposed to be Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. But the "top spy" was called back after the Prime Minister's closest advisers said CSIS did not relay key information related to Chinese interference in the last two federal elections.
It was in this context that frictions between regional intelligence officers and CSIS headquarters staff, and between CSIS and the prime minister’s own national security advisers, were revealed.
One CSIS analyst wrote emails to spy agency headquarters demanding to know why unidentified reports he had prepared on PRC foreign interference were not being disseminated. For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. SIGINT involves information gleaned from electronic communications, like intercepted mobile phone calls, text messages, computer and internet communications, and satellite signals.
CSIS Director Vigneault said he yanked it, later telling the oversight agencies he did so at the request of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security and intelligence advisor , who at the time was Jody Thomas. Several mid-career intelligence officers and senior CSIS managers have quit amid sagging morale, the two intelligence-world sources said. Some CSIS workers even stopped putting Chinese foreign interference intelligence in writing, NSIRA observed without explaining why.
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