{"id":17452,"date":"2012-10-24T14:58:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T18:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17452"},"modified":"2018-01-15T13:49:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T18:49:11","slug":"how-to-betray-your-country-in-one-easy-walk-into-a-foreign-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/how-to-betray-your-country-in-one-easy-walk-into-a-foreign-embassy\/","title":{"rendered":"How to betray your country in one easy walk into a foreign embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story of how a Canadian officer decided to turn traitor and pass secret intelligence to Russia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When news first broke that the RCMP had arrested a low-ranked Canadian naval officer for providing intelligence to a foreign power, the press was quick to focus on the fact that the officer, Jeffrey Paul Delisle, had previously gone bankrupt. That was exactly the sort of thing a foreign country would look to exploit in a potential recruit. But we know now that Delisle didn\u2019t need to be recruited. Heartbroken and contemplating suicide, he walked into the Russian Embassy in Ottawa and volunteered his services.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

Over and over, the RCMP agent returns to one question: Why? He offers friendly comments, assuring Delisle that he knows how much pain, so much pain, he would have been feeling after his divorce. Delisle breaks down. He shares the story of how he found his wife, whom he\u2019d loved since high school, cheating on him. She only married him, Delisle claims she told him, for security. She left him and hooked up with a new man, and was pregnant with the new partner\u2019s child shortly thereafter. Delisle bitterly recalls hosting his ex-wife and her boyfriend at a Christmas Eve party, because his daughter wanted him to. And he wanted to make her happy.<\/p>\n

Delisle\u2019s love for his children shines though his statements. He clearly adores them. He says they were the only thing that prevented him from indulging his wish to commit suicide, to steer his car into oncoming traffic. He decided that he\u2019d live for them. Indeed, he was caring for them, his ex-wife apparently being out of the picture \u2014 another source of bitterness. Having decided that he was dead inside, but obligated to live, Delisle says he decided to commit \u201cprofessional suicide.\u201d So he walked into the Russian Embassy and offered to become a spy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The story of how a Canadian officer decided to turn traitor and pass secret intelligence to Russia: When news first broke that the RCMP had arrested a low-ranked Canadian naval officer for providing intelligence to a foreign power, the press was quick to focus on the fact that the officer, Jeffrey Paul Delisle, had previously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,1119],"tags":[343,476,567,745,862],"class_list":["post-17452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-military","category-russia","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-espionage","tag-rcmp","tag-rcn","tag-treason"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4xu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18040,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452\/revisions\/18040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}