Lors de sa sortie, Spyworld a créé une légère commotion, car l'auteur y accusait le CST d'avoir servi à espionner Margaret Trudeau, certains ministres du Cabinet de Margaret Thatcher et René Lévesque.
When it was released Spyworld created a minor sensation with some of its accusations that the CSE had been used to spy on Margaret Trudeau, on some of Margaret Thatcher's cabinet ministers and on René Lévesque.