For those who care, the Communications Security Establishment has been getting some flak for spying on Mex. during NAFTA talks and on Korea to help us sell Can. nuke reactors: (This rather mirrors the trouble their sister agency, the NSA, has been getting into) (sorry the online newscasts were rather vague) _________________________________________________________________ CP LOGO CANADIAN NEWS DIGEST Tuesday, Nov. 14 Electronic snooping part of the game OTTAWA (CP)--Intelligence experts say it's no big secret that Canada's high-tech spy agency snoops on friendly countries for financial gain. Increasingly, intelligence agencies around the world are using their antennas, computers and codebreakers to gather economic information, Wesley Wark, a University of Toronto history professor, said Monday. Some of Canada's largest trading partners--including the United States, France and Japan--comb the airwaves for useful information, so Canada would be foolish not to join the game, said Wark. Canada's secretive Communications Security Establishment--an arm of the Defence Department--collects and analyses communications traffic on the activities of foreign states, corporations and people. Jane Shorten, a former CSE employee, told CTV News in an interview Sunday the agency spied on Canada's allies and trading partners--including Mexico and South Korea--by eavesdropping on embassies, consulates and diplomats. ___ HEADLINE NEWS All times are Eastern Standard Time Date: Tue-14-Nov-1995, Time: 13:00 mexico and south korea are angry about reports that canada spied on them. the mexican government has filed a diplomatic note expressing its suprise and concern, and south korea has launched an inquiry. a former intelligence agent, jane shorten, says she spied on both countries, as well as japan, when she was with the communications security establishment. she says the c-s-e shifted its focus after the cold war from spying on the russians to spying on allies to get trade secrets. prime minister chretien says the organization is supposed to operate within the law. chretien says the c-s-e doesn't report to him on a daily basis, so he doesn't know if it was spying on anyone.