An active overseas Canadian Security Intelligence Service operation that was abruptly stopped at the direction of an adviser to the prime minister put agents in danger, a federal watchdog says.
The information was disclosed in a report from the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA) released publicly on May 29.
NSIRA conducted a review of an undisclosed CSIS operation following a referral by then-Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino in late 2022, who sought to know whether certain policies allowed him to fulfil his responsibilities of overseeing CSIS.
The heavily redacted 43-page report from NSIRA discusses an operation by CSIS in 2022 that involved domestic and foreign partners. It says that Mendicino and his department had been informed about the operation just over two weeks prior to its start, and neither had raised objections….