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New documents show Canada’s cyberspy agency was so alarmed by the potential fallout from an alleged secrecy breach by a senior RCMP employee that it revised a damage assessment to “severe” from “high” in the days after his arrest.
Cameron Jay Ortis was taken into custody on Sept. 12, 2019, for allegedly revealing secrets to an unnamed recipient and planning to give additional classified information to an unspecified foreign entity.
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Last Modified: 4:08 PM CST Monday, Jan. 25, 2021
OTTAWA - New documents show Canada’s cyberspy agency was so alarmed by the potential fallout from an alleged secrecy breach by a senior RCMP employee that it revised a damage assessment to “severe” from high in the days after his arrest.
Cameron Ortis, a senior intelligence official at the RCMP, leaves the courthouse in Ottawa after being granted bail, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019. New documents show Canada’s cyberspy agency was so alarmed by the potential fallout from an alleged secrecy breach by Ortis that it revised a damage assessment to “severe” from high in the days after his arrest. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Suspected RCMP secrecy breach fallout upgraded to severe : newly released documents
by The Canadian Press
Last Updated Jan 25, 2021 at 2:14 pm EDT
OTTAWA New documents show Canada’s cyberspy agency was so alarmed by the potential fallout from an alleged secrecy breach by a senior RCMP employee that it revised a damage assessment to “severe” from “high” in the days after his arrest.
Cameron Jay Ortis was taken into custody in September 2019 for allegedly revealing secrets to an unnamed recipient and planning to give additional classified information to an unspecified foreign entity.
Ortis, who led the RCMP’s National Intelligence Co-ordination Centre, is charged with Security of Information Act violations, breach of trust and a computer-related offence.