Government tip-off prompted spy agency to look into federal scientist, CSIS says

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The country's top spy agency says Natural Resources Canada approached it with concerns about former federal scientist Dennis Lu more than two decades ago — not the other way around — and has made a rare disclosure of one of its documents in court to set the record straight, CBC News has learned.