Canada

Adil al-Magrebi Charkaoui trained at a camp in Afghanistan according to CSIS. He was detained in Montreal facing possible deportation.

1945-56 – Operation DEW WORM. The RCMP had recruited a contractor who was rebuilding the Russian embassy and had installed RCMP officers undercover as workmen on the site. With the help of Igor Gouzenko, a Russian who had worked inside the old embassy as a cipher clerk until he defected to the Canadians in 1945. Guernsey pinpointed where KGB and GRU secret sections and cipher rooms were located.

5 September 1945 – Igor Gouzenko a clerk in the Soviet embassy in Ottawa Canada defected to Canadian authorities. Gouzenko’s disclosures of wartime Soviet espionage activities in Canada and the US lead to an FBI investigation of suspect US Federal employees.

1952 –55 – Files marked KEYSTONE. 1952 when a Russian entered Canada with a false name intent on developing cover as an illegal agent for the KGB. His destination was the US. The KGB sent their illegals to Canada first to establish a secure legend or false identity before going across the border. He was made KGB illegal resident in Canada responsible for running other illegal agents through Canada. In Summer 1955 he was recalled to Russia.

July 1955 – M15 received a request for technical assistance in an operation the royal Canadian mounted police RCMP were planning to install microphones in the Russian embassy in Ottawa. The old three storey embassy built overlooking the Rideau river had recently burnt down. Terry Guernsey was the head of RCMP counter espionage department B branch. His assistant was James Bennett.

January 1957 – The Polish government opened a consulate in Montreal. In January 1957 Montreal RCMP installed a microphone. The RCMP knew the identity of the UB Polish intel officer and the location of his room.

August 1961 – A Soviet scientist who defected to Canada Mikhail A Klochko, a specilist in water chemistry and a Stalin prize winner. A professor and head of a lab at the Kurnakov institute in Moscow. He apparently escaped from his KGB minders while attending a conference in Ottawa and got political asylum from the Canadian government.

May 1965 – Canada agreed to provide a nuclear power plant to be located in Karachi called the Karachi nuclear power project KANUPP in Pakistan. (Spying on the bomb ©2006 Richelson).

1979 – A Canadian subsidiary of BCCI was launched and it established eight branches eventually.

1985-87 – A Canadian lawyer Patrick Anthony Good laundered $7.5 million in cash through BCCI Vancouver branch. About $3 million was converted into US dollars with the rest transferred overseas.

1995 – Assem Hammoud studied for seven years beginning in 1995, a Lebanese terrorist suspect. He graduated with a bachelors degree in commerce in 2002. Plot to bomb New York tunnels. Concordia university in Montreal.

1995 – Canadian security intel service CSIS a successor agency to the royal Canadian mounted police security service communications security establishment CSE communications intel. (Espionage ©1995 E Volkman).

25 May 1995 – First Islamic banking conference Toronto Canada co-sponsored by the Islamic society of North America. Zafar and associates and the American journal of Islamic finance.

July 1997 – Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer was arrested by New York city police, his plan to bomb the subway system. He had been arrested on three separate occasions by the immigration service within about a year before his arrest each time for illegally entering the US from Canada. He was a member of Hamas, visa fraud. (American Jihad ©2002 S Emerson).

February 1999 – Hamid Aich fought in Afghanistan and Bosnia. He came to Montreal in 1995 and later moved to Vancouver where he lived with Abdelmajid Dahoumane who helped build Ahmed Ressam’s bomb. He left Canada in February 1999.

14 December 1999 – Algerian Ahmed Ressam was caught entering the US with 130 pounds of explosives at the Canadian border at Port Angeles Washington. Ressam had links to other al-Qaeda militants and trained in an Afghanistan al-Qaeda camp.Authorities learn his intended target was Los Angeles international airport.

August 2001 – Immediately before 9/11 bin laden sent al-Qaeda’s key financier Mohammed Mansour Jabarah (A Kuwaiti with Canadian citizenship) alias Samy, to Malaysia to prepare attacks against US and Israeli diplomatic targets in Manila Philippines.

1 October 2001 – Terrorists active in Canada by Deborah Tetley. Calgary Herald.

6 December 2001 – Jim Bronskill and Rick Mofina Hamas funded by Canadian agency, report, aid organisation accused of sending money to US charity, shut down for alleged Hamas ties Ottawa citizens.

2002 – el Shukrijumah was seen in 2002 in Hamilton Ontario posing as a student at McMaster university which has a 5 megawatt research reactor. US officials believe he was in Hamilton trying to obtain radioactive material for a dirty bomb. At least three other al-Qaeda terrorists were seen in Hamilton in 2002 Anas al-Liby and Jaber  Elbareh and Amer El-Maati.

13 uly 2006 – ELF claims of vandalism spread. Earth Liberation Front direct actions incendiary devices.

9 August 2006 – Quebec anti-terror squad and oil executives car blast. A group called Initiative de resistance internaliste IRI claiming it firebombed the car in emails sent to new media.

9 August 2006 – Ten more Saskatchewan farms quarantined due to anthrax outbreak. Total farms 123, dead animals mostly cattle and bison 615.

21 August 2006 – Que police confirm bomb destroyed oil executives car.

16 September 2006 – Bomb making parts found in York apartment, an explosive package and an empty gas can. White powder forces store evacuation. Dynamite found in car. Canadian university shuts down after a mystery outbreak.

19 September 2006 – Suspicious package grounds Air India flight at Toronto Pearson airport.

9 October 2006 – Dozens sick in Ontario after E.Coli outbreak.

18 October 2006 – Regina, powder scare at post office, white powder was found in an envelope.

15 November 2006 – Bomb scare at Garrison false alarm.

19 November 2006 – Canadian pharmacists raise the alert of a cross border threat, fake pills cold containing cyanide or anthrax.

19 November 2006 – Russian spy arrested in Montreal as he was about to board a plane to leave the country. Canadian counter intel op espionage is alive and well long after the Cold War.

To be continued…..