The spy secrets in the phone booth

[William Knowles <erehwon () KIZMIAZ DIS ORG>]

http://www.globeandmail.com/gam/National/19991118/USPYSN.html

(Globe and Mail) [11.18.99] A Toronto man who found a Canadian
Security Intelligence Service computer diskette in a telephone booth
says it detailed -- in plain English -- the names of confidential
informants and contacts, information about the service's targets and
covert operations in Canada and details about espionage training
exercises.

"The more I looked, the more I realized that this was very, very,
sensitive stuff," the man told The Globe and Mail yesterday in his
first interview about the diskette mishap, which took place in 1996.
"This is amazing, I thought."

Federal government sources confirmed many details of the man's
account.

[...]


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