CSIS seeks own area in Beechwood Cemetery

[The Bread Guy]

This from The Canadian Press:

It looks like one of Canada’s most historic graveyards is about to get a little, um, spookier.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service wants to create a national burial site for its employees at Ottawa’s Beechwood Cemetery.

The intelligence service and a society representing many former spies have approached Beechwood about reserving part of the venerable resting place for CSIS members and their families.

The cemetery, a short drive east of Parliament Hill, already has dedicated sections for the RCMP, National Defence and Ottawa police.

These areas are “an impressive and touching tribute to the service and sacrifices of Canada’s men and women in uniform,” CSIS director Michel Coulombe said in a letter to James Patterson, Beechwood’s director of family services.

A CSIS-specific section would be a “welcome and appropriate addition” to the cemetery, Coulombe said in the July letter, obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.

“A preliminary survey indicated a significant amount of interest among employees in purchasing a plot,” Coulombe wrote following a May meeting between Patterson and backers of the plan.

“The success of the endeavour will rely on careful and detailed planning of the site and monument.”

Coulombe suggested further discussion of the cemetery’s offer of help in setting up a charitable fund to which people could donate money for the “development of and improvement to” the CSIS National Memorial Cemetery.

The project is “still at the initial stages,” said CSIS spokeswoman Tahera Mufti ....

 

[Lightguns]

I am curious, do they have alot of casualties?  I never thought much of them, they operate only in Canada right?

 

[Jarnhamar]

I am curious, do they have alot of casualties?  I never thought much of them, they operate only in Canada right?

No they also operate outside of Canada.

 

[mariomike]

“A preliminary survey indicated a significant amount of interest among employees in purchasing a plot,” Coulombe wrote following a May meeting between Patterson and backers of the plan.

Not surprising considering, "we were selected as one of the Top Employers for Canadians over 40."
https://www.csis.gc.ca/crrs/index-en.php

I am curious, do they have alot of casualties?

"No CSIS member has died in the performance of their duties in Canada or abroad, despite the dangers they face, he noted."

 

[PMedMoe]

I am curious, do they have alot of casualties?

One doesn't need to be a casualty to be buried in Beechwood. 

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Is it so this kind of stuff can happen?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU-YQmM0fMM

 

[Stetson and Spurs]

I was thinking where it's a secret organization no one will be able to find it 

 

[Michael OLeary]

I was thinking where it's a secret organization no one will be able to find it 

The headstones will just have a security classification engraved on them.

 

[Stetson and Spurs]

Maybe a small silhouette of James Bond.

 

[daftandbarmy]

I smell 'CIA Envy'