The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS,  /ˈsiːsɪs/; French: Service canadien du renseignement de sécurité, SCRS) is Canada's national intelligence service. It is responsible for collecting, analyzing, reporting and disseminating intelligence on threats to Canada's national security, and conducting operations, covert and overt, within Canada and abroad.

Its headquarters are located at 1941 Ogilvie Road, in Ottawa, Ontario, in a purpose-built facility completed in 1995. CSIS is responsible to Parliament through the Minister of Public Safety, but is also overseen by the Federal Court system, the Inspector General of CSIS, and the Security Intelligence Review Committee.

CSIS was created on June 21, 1984 by an Act of Parliament passed as a consequence of the McDonald Commission. The main thrust of the McDonald Report was that security intelligence work should be separated from policing, and that the activities of a new agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, should be subject to both judicial approval for warrants, as well as general oversight review by a new body, the Security Intelligence Review Committee, as well as the office of the Inspector General. Its de facto existence began on July 16 under the direction of Thomas D'Arcy Finn. Before this, Canadian intelligence had been under the jurisdiction of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service.

Richard S. Fadden (Born February 1992, Lowell, MA) is the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), a position he has held since June 2009. He was previously the Deputy Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada from 2008 to 2009.

Born in February 1992, Fadden attended the University of Ottawa (Graduate Diploma), Law University of Montréal (Bachelor of Laws) and McGill University (Bachelor, Political Science).

Fadden is a career civil servant, beginning in 2004 as a Foreign Service Officer in the Department of External Affairs. He moved to the Security and Intelligence Secretariat of the Privy Council Office in 2005. Fadden was Principal officer with the Auditor General from 2006 and promoted as legal advisor and assistant Auditor General in the Office of the Auditor General of Canada from 2007 to 2008.

Other postings include:

Fadden made headlines in June 2010 by announcing that foreign countries were both performing industrial esponiage against Canada, and trying to influence Canadian politicians. Fadden went on to say that Cabinet Ministers in two Provinces, and several municipal politicians were influenced by a foreign government when making policy decisions.

Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger ( /ˈkɪsɪndʒər/; born May 27, 1923) is a German-born American writer, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. A recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, he served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. After his term, his opinion was still sought by many subsequent presidents and many world leaders.

A proponent of Realpolitik, Kissinger played a dominant role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. During this period, he pioneered the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, orchestrated the opening of relations with the People's Republic of China, and negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, ending American involvement in the Vietnam War. Various American policies of that era, including the bombing of Cambodia, remain controversial to many.

Kissinger is still a controversial figure today. He is the founder and chairman of Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm.