The Fifth Estate: The Espionage Establishment

In early 1974, a one-hour CBC TV documentary told Canadians for the first time about the existence of a secretive national agency that tapped phone calls and monitored radio signals. Back then, the signals intelligence organization went by an unwieldy title — the Communications Branch of the National Research Council, or CBNRC. Today it's called the Communications Security Establishment, or CSE.

• Release date
• January 9, 1974
• Runtime
• 59 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• William I. Macadam

Cast

V

Victor Marchetti

W

Winslow Peck

W

William H. Kelley

J

John D. Marks