A report in NEWSDAY Wednesday said 27 staff attached to the Security Intelligence Agency (SIA) were handed termination notices last Thursday. And it said officials have stated that more staff will be fired shortly.
The paper said Canadian criminologist Cameron Ross, who was hired by the the PNM administration to review all intelligence agencies, has advised that the SIA be disbanded and some key employees be sent to the Strategic Services Agency (SSA).
It said its sources have noted that Ross pointed out that SIA officers are duplicating work done by SSA officers and recommended that their jobs be declared redundant.
Newsday said its sources have said that the People’s Partnership Government is accepting the recommendations of the Ross report and will soon send home more SIA employees.
The SIA was highlighted after a police raid at its offices last October found evidence that the agency was illegally spying of citizens, including the president, prominent politicians, judges, journalists and business people.
The government fired the head of the SIA, Nigel Clement. It subsequently passed legislation to legitimate wiretapping under very stringent conditions.
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