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RCMP secrets-case arrest triggered internal warnings, advisories to Mounties
OTTAWA — After the shocking arrest of one of their own on national-secrecy charges, rank-and-file Mounties were encouraged to get counselling if needed, decline to speak with the media and avoid the headquarters venue where a news conference on the case was taking place, newly released documents show.
RCMP members were also advised what to say to colleagues at home and abroad who asked about the Cameron Jay Ortis file.
Ortis, 47, faces eight charges under the Security of Information Act. He is also accused of breach of trust and a computer-related offence.
The director general of the RCMP’s National Intelligence Co-ordination Centre was arrested Sept. 12 for allegedly revealing secrets to an unnamed recipient and planning to give additional classified information to an unspecified foreign entity.