CAF Member Arrested and Charged Relating to Foreign Interference

[dapaterson]

Globe and Mail alleges MWO Robar was freelancing for UKR.

https://archive.is/2025.12.16-092847/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canadian-forces-intelligence-officer-classified-information-ukraine/

 

[Halifax Tar]

Globe and Mail alleges MWO Robar was freelancing for UKR.

https://archive.is/2025.12.16-092847/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canadian-forces-intelligence-officer-classified-information-ukraine/

Its sounds me like he is accused of letting his zeal in support of Ukraine war efforts get the best of him.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Its sounds me like he is accused of letting his zeal in support of Ukraine war efforts get the best of him.

Yeah.. 'zeal'

 

[QV]

Based on the articles this whole thing just doesn't smell right...

Yeah.. 'zeal'

Military prosecutor Major Max Reede told the court Mr. Robar is not a flight risk and was “not motivated by personal or financial gain or to cause harm.”

 

[Navy_Pete]

Yeah.. 'zeal'

That's a pretty shitty accusation with very little publicly available, but what little there is points to that not being the case. I think you can do better than that.

 

[ModlrMike]

If even 1/10 of that is true and provable at trial, he could be seriously FUBAR.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Globe and Mail alleges MWO Robar was freelancing for UKR.

https://archive.is/2025.12.16-092847/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canadian-forces-intelligence-officer-classified-information-ukraine/

I hope that is the full extent of his wrong doing.

 

[OldSolduer]

I hope that is the full extent of his wrong doing.

Beware of the false flag. It is not unknown for agents of unfriendly powers to pose as an agent from an ally or friendly nation.

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

And it also might be the Govt trying to massage the message.
Saying it was The Ukraine is a whole lot more palpable to most then some other well known countries....

 

[Sprinting Thistle]

Perhaps, this is another instance like the Vice Adm Norman situation where the member thought he was communicating within the boundaries of his position, with someone he was authorized to speak with, yet someone took it as something else and decided to push for an investigation. Or perhaps not.

CFINTCOM can be very empiricistic and take umbrage with outsiders seen to be meddling with their natural order of things. I experienced this myself while in Afghanistan many years ago. As a non-Int person, I had sent some benign observations on a subject to a friend in CFINTCOM who thought my observations worthwhile, useful and shared the information round the office. A CFINTCOM Col took huge offense and saw it as a non-Int type involving themselves in something they should not. Unknown to me, they filed a complaint and an MP Investigation was launched. The investigation went on for two years and I was never told about it. I only discovered that I had been investigated for 2 years after a number of documents were released to the press years later. Apparently the investigator found no grounds for charges.

 

[QV]

I wouldn't rule out confusion, lack of communication, and/or stupidity on the part of either side in this.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Perhaps, this is another instance like the Vice Adm Norman situation where the member thought he was communicating within the boundaries of his position, with someone he was authorized to speak with, yet someone took it as something else and decided to push for an investigation. Or perhaps not.

CFINTCOM can be very empiricistic and take umbrage with outsiders seen to be meddling with their natural order of things. I experienced this myself while in Afghanistan many years ago. As a non-Int person, I had sent some benign observations on a subject to a friend in CFINTCOM who thought my observations worthwhile, useful and shared the information round the office. A CFINTCOM Col took huge offense and saw it as a non-Int type involving themselves in something they should not. Unknown to me, they filed a complaint and an MP Investigation was launched. The investigation went on for two years and I was never told about it. I only discovered that I had been investigated for 2 years after a number of documents were released to the press years later. Apparently the investigator found no grounds for charges.

My experience was somewhat different, thankfully.

Be careful what you share with the Int Geeks or you might just find some of them crashing your patrols, unannounced

 

[dapaterson]

Perhaps, this is another instance like the Vice Adm Norman situation where the member thought he was communicating within the boundaries of his position, with someone he was authorized to speak with, yet someone took it as something else and decided to push for an investigation. Or perhaps not.

CFINTCOM can be very empiricistic and take umbrage with outsiders seen to be meddling with their natural order of things. I experienced this myself while in Afghanistan many years ago. As a non-Int person, I had sent some benign observations on a subject to a friend in CFINTCOM who thought my observations worthwhile, useful and shared the information round the office. A CFINTCOM Col took huge offense and saw it as a non-Int type involving themselves in something they should not. Unknown to me, they filed a complaint and an MP Investigation was launched. The investigation went on for two years and I was never told about it. I only discovered that I had been investigated for 2 years after a number of documents were released to the press years later. Apparently the investigator found no grounds for charges.

I reported an InfoSec violation. The MPs were called in. I explained the problem and showed the nice MP corporal where the problem was and gave context on the number of people who could potentially have access.

A few months later my boss's boss got an inch thick report that recommended I be charged.

He replied with a detailed explanation of how I had done my job by identifying and reporting the problem.

The file was closed with a final letter to him from the MPs, stating that Someone should be told about this.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Robar's woe-is-me I'm being picked on defence isn't holding up so well.

CAF member allegedly leaked the identity of a soldier involved in covert intelligence​

A Canadian Armed Forces intelligence operator charged with espionage exposed a fellow military member’s identity during unauthorized dealings with a foreign intelligence agency,

Robar shared with the foreign entity the full name and identity of a Canadian Armed Forces member who was engaged in covert intelligence and information-collection activities.

Information allegedly passed to the foreign entity also gave it leverage over Canada, which was used to make threats, the documents say.
Military prosecutors also allege that MWO Robar talked to the foreign entity about possibly working for their country’s foreign intelligence agency after he came under investigation in the fall of 2024.

At one point, prosecutors allege the foreign entity “threatened to go to the media with the safeguarded and special operational information in an attempt to leverage Canada into supporting the foreign intelligence service interests.”

Nothing like putting a fellow Canadian soldiers life (or their families) in danger for a job prospect.