The Fifth Estate

The Smartest Guy in the Room: Cameron Ortis and the RCMP Secrets Scandal (46x3)

: 07, 2020

Cameron Ortis was once the RCMP's top intelligence officer. But today he is in custody, facing charges of revealing secrets to unauthorized people and plotting to leak even more. The Fifth Estate's Bob McKeown tells the inside story of how his alleged crimes came to light, a remarkable tale that involves a Mexican drug cartel, Australian biker gangs and a world of gambling, money laundering and encrypted phones. It's a story that features a successful Vancouver company that made its fortune selling phones to the criminal underworld, and an American who styles himself as Robin Hood, but who eventually went to the FBI with a story that ultimately revealed secrets being offered for sale at the highest levels of the RCMP. Also: Dave Seglins brings us the latest details into our investigation of the crash of CP Rail Train 301, which killed three people last year in British Columbia. It's a crash that was investigated by CP's own police force. Now there are calls for the federal government to step in and to bar rail company police forces from investigating their own companies.