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Oct 13, 2023 | 11:24 AM
OTTAWA — A former senior Mountie acknowledges there have been tensions occasionally between an intelligence unit he led and one run by Cameron Jay Ortis, who’s charged with breaching Canada’s secrets and techniques legislation.
Warren Coons, now a retired chief superintendent, was chargeable for the National Intelligence Co-ordination Centre, an RCMP unit that aimed to trace rising developments of curiosity to the drive.
At the time, Ortis was director of the RCMP’s Operations Research group, which had access to extremely labeled intelligence.
Coons advised the jury in Ortis’s Ontario Superior Court trial in the present day the connection between the 2 items wasn’t adversarial, however it was not a powerful one.