Early and personal life Delisle graduated from
Sackville High School in 1990. On May 3, 1997, Delisle married Jennifer Lee Janes in
Lower Sackville,
Nova Scotia.
Military career Delisle served as a naval
threat assessment analyst In September 2010, Delisle graduated from Royal Military College with a Bachelor of Arts. Delisle's activities were particularly damaging due to his access to the
Stone Ghost database of intelligence shared between Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Referring to the information he passed on, he said: "It was never really Canadian stuff. ... There was American stuff, there was some British stuff, Australian stuff – it was everybody’s stuff."
Investigation and conviction The investigation into Delisle was triggered by a tip from the U.S.
Federal Bureau of Investigation on December 2, 2011. His home was searched that month and he was arrested the following January. Delisle had previously been stopped by
Canada Border Services Agency agents at
Halifax airport in September 2011 after returning from a trip to Brazil to meet his GRU handler, carrying a large amount of cash and prepaid credit cards. There is no sign this led to an investigation. In May 2013,
The Canadian Press reported that
Canadian Security Intelligence Service had been aware of Delisle's spying well before the FBI tip, but failed to contact the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police. On February 8, 2013, Delisle was sentenced to 20 years in prison. On February 13, 2013, it was announced by DND that Delisle had been stripped of his commission and service decorations and been dishonourably discharged. DND was also moving immediately to recover the salary paid to Delisle since his arrest in January 2012. The
Parole Board of Canada granted Delisle day parole in October 2018, and full parole in March 2019. == See also ==