The Fifth Estate: The Espionage Establishment
1974, English. Directed by William I. Macadam.
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.
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The Fifth Estate: The Espionage Establishment (1974) was directed by William I. Macadam and stars Victor Marchetti, Winslow Peck, William H. Kelley.