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...first suspected Russian spy nabbed in Canada in a decade is stirring memories of cold war espionage in North America. The alleged Russian agent, known only as Paul William Hampel - the name on his bogus Canadian passport - was arrested Nov. 14 at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport under a national security certificate signed only five days earlier by two senior Cabinet ministers in charge of public safety and immigration...
...Hampel's arrest sent red-faced Canadian officials scrambling to defend what should have been beefed-up measures, including the Canadian passport system, put into place after 9/11 and after the 1999 arrest of Ahmed Ressam, the so-called Millennium Bomber who obtained a passport in Montreal using a forged baptismal certificate. When Hampel's detention was disclosed through a media leak, passport officials referred reporters to Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day's office, which declined to comment on grounds that the case is now in court...
...hustled off to a Montreal jail last week, agents with the Canada Border Services Agency seized his bogus Ontario provincial birth certificate, the passport that had been obtained with the phony birth certificate, $7,800 in five different currencies, encrypted prepaid cellphone cards and index cards containing information on Canadian history and civics. Hampel claimed to be a former lifeguard and travel consultant living in Montreal since 1999. Journalists found a website he had set up where he described his extensive travels abroad and published photos of the countries he visited, primarily in Eastern Europe and the former Yugoslavia...
...questioned the security of their U.S.-based online research tools because of the government’s power to comb individuals’ citation records for hints of collusion with any of America’s numerous enemies. One service in particular, RefWorks, has been the subject of scrutiny; Canadian academics are taking their personal accounts out of the California-based firm’s hands in spades, opting instead for a server at the University of Toronto, according to The Globe and Mail...
Americans face a very different set of circumstances with respect to having their work surveyed than do their Canadian colleagues. For one thing, academics in this country have nowhere to hide—even if Harvard were to move all of its users’ personal information from sites like RefWorks to servers in Canada, the Patriot Act still enables the FBI to demand that librarians and Internet service providers surrender user records...