Intelligence agencies exist to serve governments: that much is a given. Spies gather raw data (be it signals intelligence, the human variety or pictures), assess it for accuracy and present it to officials at various levels in response to requirements levied by those governments. Outside the stated needs, however, how much influence should senior mandarins, especially not elected ones, exert on intelligence? Borealis looks at the 1970 FLQ crisis in Canada with Brunel University's Philip Davies.
Intelligence agencies exist to serve governments: that much is a given. Spies gather raw data (be it signals intelligence, the human variety or pictures), assess it for accuracy and present it to officials at various levels in response to requirements levied by those governments. Outside the stated needs, however, how much influence should senior mandarins, especially not elected ones, exert on intelligence? Borealis looks at the 1970 FLQ crisis in Canada with Brunel University's Philip Davies.