"During a late-October 2024 meeting of Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security-one convened specifically to address disinformation and Russian interference in Canadian affairs-a former cabinet minister accused journalist David Pugliese of being a Soviet and Russian intelligence asset."
"Chris Alexander, former prime minister Stephen Harper's immigration minister, produced photocopies of documents that apparently indicated Pugliese, long associated with the Ottawa Citizen, had been a Russian operative for decades. Alexander claimed the pages originated in the "pre-1991 archives of the Ukrainian KGB." He said these documents were in the hands of Canadian "national security officials" and that they had been authenticated by "several of the world's leading experts on KGB documents." Read in sequence, the pages sketched the story of a rising journalist marked, shadowed, and ultimately assessed as a potential recruit."
"Of the small number of defence reporters in Canada, Pugliese is one of the few consistently critical voices. He has been unsparing toward politicians, the Department of National Defence (DND), the military-industrial complex, and the special interest groups in Ottawa that play an outsized role in shaping our foreign policy. Examples of Pugliese's recent reporting include a story about the Canadian Forces' military police failing to review a sexual assault investigation, another about malfunctioning anti-tank missiles sent to arm Canadian troops in Latvia, and how the military tracked a veteran's social media accounts and shared private information without his consent."
During a late-October 2024 parliamentary committee meeting on disinformation and Russian interference, former immigration minister Chris Alexander accused journalist David Pugliese of being a Soviet and Russian intelligence asset. Alexander presented photocopies he said came from the "pre-1991 archives of the Ukrainian KGB" and claimed Canadian national security officials and external experts had authenticated the documents. The documents allegedly traced a journalist marked and assessed as a potential recruit. Pugliese, a consistently critical defence reporter, has covered military police failures, faulty anti-tank missiles, and military tracking of a veteran's social media. The allegations produced death threats, deportation threats to his family, and increased home security measures.
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