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Cautious Beginnings

Canadian Foreign Intelligence, 1939-51

by (author) Kurt F. Jensen

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2009
Category
Canada, Post-Confederation (1867-)
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774858458
    Publish Date
    Jan 2009
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774814836
    Publish Date
    Jan 2009
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774814829
    Publish Date
    Jun 2008
    List Price
    $95.00

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Description

Kurt F. Jensen argues that Canada was a more active intelligence partner in the Second World War alliance than has previously been suggested. He describes Canada’s contributions to Allied intelligence before the war began, as well as the distinctly Canadian activities that started from that point. He reveals how the government created an intelligence organization during the war to aid Allied resources. This is a convincing portrait of a nation with an active role in Second World War intelligence gathering, one that continues to influence the architecture of its current capabilities.

About the author

Kurt F. Jensen is a retired foreign service officer and adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University.

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Editorial Reviews

Jensen’s work will prove to be a significant historiographical foundation on which future scholars will undoubtedly build their own studies of intelligence in the later Cold War and post-9/11 periods.

H-Canada

Kurt Jensen’s well-researched Cautious Beginnings: Canadian Foreign Intelligence 1939-51 sets out the historical case for Canada’s decision in 1951 to not create its own clandestine foreign intelligence service.

International Journal of Intelligence and Counter Intelligence, Vol 24, No 2