Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Foreign Intelligence at the Beginning of the War

2 The Birth of the Examination Unit

3 Building Alliances

4 Canadian HUMINT Collection

5 The Mousetrap Operation, 1942-43

6 Canadian Intelligence at War

7 Planning for Postwar SIGINT

8 Postwar Intelligence Structures

9 The Postwar SIGINT Community

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Promotional Information

A convincing portrait of Canada's active role in Second World War intelligence gathering.

About the Author

Kurt F. Jensen is a former Canadian diplomat whose assignments included work with foreign intelligence. He also teaches political science at Carleton University.

Reviews

Jensen’s work will prove to be a significant historiographical foundation on which future scholars will undoubtedly build their own studies of intelligence in the later Cold War and post-9/11 periods.
*H-Canada*

Kurt Jensen’s well-researched Cautious Beginnings: Canadian Foreign Intelligence 1939-51 sets out the historical case for Canada’s decision in 1951 to not create its own clandestine foreign intelligence service.
*International Journal of Intelligence and Counter Intelligence, Vol 24, No 2*