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Canadian naval spy ‘sorry’ for passing secrets to Russians
The Star ^ | Feb 1, 2013 | Bruce Campion-Smith

Posted on 02/02/2013 4:34:51 AM PST by cunning_fish

HALIFAX—The betrayal, the subterfuge, the years of spying. Now, facing the prospect of more than 20 years behind bars, Jeffrey Paul Delisle wishes he could take it all back.

In a soft voice broken by emotion, the naval intelligence officer stood in court Friday and said he was sorry for passing intelligence secrets to the Russians.

“I want to apologize to my children, my parents, my family. I love them very much and I’m sorry for the hurt and pain that I caused them,” said Delisle, a father of four.

“I extend the same to my friends and my colleagues. If I could go back in time, I would but I can’t.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Government; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: canada; espionage; nato; navy; russia; traitor; treason

1 posted on 02/02/2013 4:34:58 AM PST by cunning_fish
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To: cunning_fish

Sorry he got caught.


2 posted on 02/02/2013 4:38:04 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Venturer

Video of interrogation at link. This guy is really miserable.


3 posted on 02/02/2013 4:40:06 AM PST by cunning_fish
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To: cunning_fish

I feel sorry for his family. He can go suck eggs.


4 posted on 02/02/2013 4:43:08 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: cunning_fish

He blames his wife. Im sure the money the Russians gave him helped heal the pain.


5 posted on 02/02/2013 4:48:05 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: cunning_fish

I’m sure he “takes full responsibility”, but what difference does it make? /s


6 posted on 02/02/2013 4:58:59 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: cunning_fish
If any Officer, mariner, soldier, or other person of the Fleet, shall give, hold, or entertain intelligence to or with any enemy or rebel, without leave from the King's Majesty, or the Lord High Admiral, or the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral, Commander in Chief, or his commanding officer, every such person so offending, and being thereof convicted by the sentence of a court martial, shall be punished with death.

The Articles of War of the Royal Navy, 1757.

On some issues they should still apply.

7 posted on 02/02/2013 5:06:48 AM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: Squawk 8888

PING A LING

Regards

alfa6 ;>}


8 posted on 02/02/2013 5:15:41 AM PST by alfa6
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To: naturalman1975

Alternatively, there’s “keelhauling”...the guy this way at least has a chance ( assuming that the ship’s engines are stopped)


9 posted on 02/02/2013 5:17:54 AM PST by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: ken5050

Interestingly, there’s no reliable evidence of keelhauling ever being used in the Royal Navy, or the services that descended from it. It was used in the Koninklijke Marine (Royal Netherlands Navy) and by pirates and similar groups, but it never official status in any Navy of Britain or its Empire, and while there are plenty of claims it was used, nobody can actually seem to cite a case.

Plenty of other brutal punishments were permitted.


10 posted on 02/02/2013 5:24:00 AM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: ken5050

So what intel of value did he give them?


11 posted on 02/02/2013 5:24:48 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: ken5050

Give me thirty minutes with him in his cell with a blow torch and pliers and I guarantee he would be sorry.


12 posted on 02/02/2013 5:24:51 AM PST by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: naturalman1975

Fascinating, info, thanks..IIRC, ( and I read them a long, long time ago, there is one reference to it in one of the “Horatio Hornblower” novels by C.S. Forester. Forester was very accurately historically, so I assume that he had a precedent for the narrative.


13 posted on 02/02/2013 5:35:30 AM PST by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: cunning_fish

That sure brought a tear to my eye. Screw him.


14 posted on 02/02/2013 5:45:12 AM PST by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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To: cunning_fish

Go cry on John Walker’s shouder, a-hole.


15 posted on 02/02/2013 6:36:47 AM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: cunning_fish
What he really deserves are a blindfold & a cigarette,
followed by him interrupting the flight of some copper-jacketed/lead-cored projectiles.
Some peoples only real contribution to humanity is serving as an example...
16 posted on 02/02/2013 6:55:36 AM PST by 45semi (A police state is always preceded by a nanny state...)
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To: cunning_fish

my family, my friends, my..., his sorrow is all about him.

Not the millions who will die by his treason.


17 posted on 02/02/2013 7:28:52 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: alfa6; Clive; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; ...
Thanks alfa6.

To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.

Canada Ping!

18 posted on 02/02/2013 10:13:16 AM PST by Squawk 8888 (True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar, Strong and Free!)
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To: cunning_fish
Yet defence lawyer Mike Taylor painted a picture of a naval officer “profoundly affected” by the marriage breakup. “He was in a very dark place at the time this incident started. He was not thinking clearly when he walked into the Russian embassy on that day in 2007. He acknowledges that,” Taylor told the court Friday.

How many people walk into a foreign embassy when they're troubled with a personal problem? I can see a bar, maybe.

19 posted on 02/02/2013 4:49:44 PM PST by Dartman (Mubarak and Gaddafi are going to look like choirboys when this is over)
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