Dale Neufeld is a former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service

Canadian Security Intelligence Service

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service 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...

. He was appointed to the position of Acting Director on May 31st 2004, succeeding Ward P.D. Elcock

Ward P.D. Elcock

Ward P.D. Elcock is a Canadian civil servant who served as the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from 1994 until May 2004. He served as the Deputy Minister of National Defence from August 5, 2004 to October 1, 2007....

, and ran the service until Prime Minister

Prime minister

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 Paul Martin

Paul Martin

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 chose Jim Judd

Jim Judd

James "Jim" Judd is a retired Canadian diplomat and senior civil servant. He served as the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service . He was appointed to the position by Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin on November 29, 2004 and retired from the position on June 27, 2009, before the...

 as the new Director on November 29th 2004.

A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan, Mr. Neufeld joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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 in 1971.

On March 8th 2005, Jim Judd

Jim Judd

James "Jim" Judd is a retired Canadian diplomat and senior civil servant. He served as the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service . He was appointed to the position by Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin on November 29, 2004 and retired from the position on June 27, 2009, before the...

 was asked by Senator David Paul Smith

David Paul Smith

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 about whether Canadian mosques were being monitored by CSIS, to which Judd replied that he was unaware of any such policy. Assistant Director Neufeld then interjected, and confirmed that CSIS was indeed monitoring Canadian mosque

Mosque

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s, which it suspected of recruiting and funding terrorism

Terrorism

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. http://noii-van.resist.ca/csis_monitoring

Neufeld has since retired.