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COMMENTARY: Would Canada spy on Cuba?

Recently, the Globe and Mail newspaper contained a series of stories on how the “Havana syndrome” negatively impacted a number of diplomats working at the Canadian embassy in Cuba. As of this writing, there has been unusual radio silence on the topic from the Mark Carney governing Liberals.

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The reportage also linked the so-called “sonic attacks” or what the Americans call “anomalous heath incidents” (and the attendant concussion-like symptoms) to a Russian high-frequency microwave weapon. More importantly, The Globe maintained that Moscow’s retaliation against Canadian officials in Havana was because of their close co-operation with U.S. intelligence agencies in spying on the Cuban government.

Some of the articles claimed that the high-tech satellite gear, which was brought into Cuba covertly by U.S. officials, was installed on the roofs of residences of Canadian diplomats in Havana. Presumably, Canadian officials – or what are sometimes referred to as officers or agents working under the Global Security Reporting Program (GSRP) within the Department of Global Affairs – were using this satellite technology to collect intelligence on human sources in Cuba.

The secret information was eventually passed on to Canada’s partners in the so-called “Five Eyes” alliance........

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