Gregory S. Kealey is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick. He is the editor of University of Toronto Press’s Canadian Social History Series and former president of the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
""Canadians instantly recognize the CIA and Britain’s MI5 as dramatized in film, fiction and folklore. Popular culture overlooks our own history of domestic surveillance. Spying on Canadians turns on the lights. It is an absorbing account of a hammer in search of a nail."" -- Holly Doan * The Blacklocks Reporter, Saturday, April 29, 2017 * ""There is a great deal here worthy of serious consideration and its importance extends well beyond historical relevance and to narrow concerns about access to our nation’s documentary heritage…Kealey’s is not merely a well-wrought lesson about our past but a timely reminder that historical knowledge is also a way of acting in the present."" -- Jonathan Swainger * BC Studies * ""Kealey’s book is important not only for capturing an overview of the early years of security intelligence activities in Canada but also for the important insights he provides into the ongoing battles to wrest greater acces to the relevant files to ensure understanding of an important element of Canadian intelligence history."" -- Kurt F. Jensen * The American Historical Review, vol 124:1 *