Call him Bond, not James Bond, OO7, but Superintendent Daniel Bond — one of B.C.’s top RCMP liaisons with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

He joked outside B.C. Supreme Court that he is ribbed about his name by those who know what he does but his involvement and the role of the country’s national security apparatus has become the focus of the Canada Day terror plot trial.

A poor Surrey couple, John Nuttall and Amanda Korody, were convicted last summer of terrorism offences for planting inert pressure-cooker bombs at the legislature on July 1, 2013.

But their lawyers have asked Justice Catherine Bruce to stay the guilty verdicts and release the pair because of police misconduct.

Recovering addicts and recent converts to Islam living in a Metro Vancouver basement suite, the common-law couple were entrapped by the RCMP, who preyed upon their vulnerabilities, which included daily doses of methadone, the lawyers say.

In stunning testimony Wednesday, Bond testified Nuttall was targeted by CSIS in 2012 and the agency had an “investigative technique engaged” in early 2013 when they pointed the Mounties at him.

“What was the investigative technique CSIS told you they had engaged with respect to Mr. Nuttall at this meeting on Feb. 1, 2013,” lawyer Marilyn Sandford innocuously asked.

CSIS lawyer Donnaree Nygard was immediately on her feet:

“My lady, the answer to that question may require the witness to refer to sensitive or injurious information protected by section 38 under the Canada Evidence Act.”

Bond was told to step down from the witness stand.

For the second time this month, Bruce ordered the public removed from the gallery and shut the doors to conduct a secret hearing without giving media the customary notice to mount objections.

On Thursday, media lawyer Daniel Burnett was before her arguing heavy-handed measures were unnecessary.

The trial, which is entering its second year of proceedings, is in danger of becoming a shredding machine for the country’s open-court principles.

The spy agency’s involvement, which was not an issue during the jury portion of the trial, has injected a measure of intrigue and allowed defence lawyers to suggest a potential CSIS agent provocateur may have been at work in the months before the RCMP launched Operation Souvenir against Nuttall.

As a result, the judge has ordered CSIS to disclose material to her about a person X who may have been a CSIS informant involved with Nuttall.

The government wants that issue resolved privately with only a vetted transcript being made available later.

CSIS is even demanding an ex parte proceeding with only its lawyer and the judge present for some of the discussion about its secret documents.

Nygard told the judge that is non-negotiable.

Bond’s testimony has triggered other questions with which Bruce must wrestle.

Bond was the key liaison with CSIS during the sophisticated sting involving 200-plus officers.

He chaired the province’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET), the shadowy guardians of public safety.

Bond was the man who kept CSIS abreast of what the Mounties were doing with Nuttall and Korody and received tidbits about what the parallel spy operation gleaned.