Canada’s spy agency has been monitoring anti-Olympic activities for more than a year and found the strongest opposition to the athletic event to be among “the more extreme elements” of First Nations groups, particularly in alliance with anti-poverty groups, according to an internal government document obtained by Canwest News Service.

The censored document was sent by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to the Department of Public Safety and refers to an event hosted last spring by the Vancouver Olympic Committee. The six-page, French and English document, titled CSIS Threat Assessment and marked “secret,” provides little detail about the seriousness of the threat by the groups.

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