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The Fifth Estate: The Espionage Establishment (1974)
Directed by William I. Macadam
Documentary · 59m
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.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- William I. Macadam
- Producer
- William I. Macadam
Details
- Release date
- 1974-01-09
- Runtime
- 59m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- CBC, Film Arts, Norfolk Research Unit