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The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS, ; (フランス語:Service canadien du renseignement de sécurité), ''SCRS'') is Canada's primary national intelligence service. It is responsible for collecting, analyzing, reporting and disseminating intelligence on threats to Canada's national security, and conducting operations, covert and overt, within Canada and abroad. It also reports to and advises the government of Canada on national security issues and situations that threaten the security of the nation. Its headquarters is located in Ottawa, Ontario, in a purpose-built facility completed in 1995.〔() 〕 CSIS is responsible to Parliament through the Minister of Public Safety, but is also overseen by the Federal Court system, and the Security Intelligence Review Committee.〔http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/en/about_us/accountability.asp〕 ==History== Prior to 1984 security intelligence in Canada was the purview of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service. However, in the 1970s there were allegations that the RCMP Security Service had been involved in numerous illegal activities. As a result of these allegations, in 1977, Justice David Macdonald was appointed to investigate the activities of RCMP Security Service. The resulting investigation, known as the MacDonald Commission, published its final report in 1981, with its main recommendation being that security intelligence work should be separated from policing, and that a civilian intelligence agency be created to take over from the RCMP Security Service.〔(The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and CSIS: Background )〕 On June 21, 1984, CSIS was created by an Act of Parliament. At the time it was also decided that the activities of this new agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, should be subject to both judicial approval for warrants, as well as general review by a new body, the Security Intelligence Review Committee, as well as the office of the Inspector General (which was disbanded in 2012). Its ''de facto'' existence began on July 16 under the direction of Thomas D'Arcy Finn.〔http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/en/about_us/history_artifacts/history/brf_csis_index.asp〕 At first, the main emphasis of CSIS was combating the activities of various foreign intelligence agencies operating in Canada.〔http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/hstrrtfcts/rtfcts/index-eng.asp〕 For example, it has been engaged in investigating economic espionage involving Chinese operations throughout Canada. While the threat posed by foreign intelligence agencies still remain, CSIS over the years has focused more and more on the threat to Canadian security and its citizens posed by terrorist activity. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Canadian Security Intelligence Service」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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