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Data that prompted Ottawa to expel four Russian envoys in the wake of a spy disgrace likely came from the military man accused of leaking the files, says an au fait in espionage.
And the investigation into the Halifax espionage saga is far from over — here or elsewhere, said Arne Kislenko, a relation professor at Ryerson University and Trinity College at the University of Toronto.
Jeffrey Paul Delisle, the 40-year-old sub-lieutenant from Bedford who allegedly passed classified files to the Russians in Halifax earlier this month, unquestionably gave up names and information to the Canadian Security Intelligence Services, Kislenko said Friday. (Delisle also faces a breach of charge charge dating back to 2007.)
"It likely happened . . . during his investigation," he said. "It’s very likely he’s coughed up some artful information, otherwise I don’t think you’d hear so much about it."
The breadth of the charges reveals that serious information about Canada and our allies may have been leaked, said Kislenko, who writes extensively about native security and espionage.
Source: TheChronicleHerald.ca