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Canada’s declassified history. Gov’t docs from WWII – War on Terror. Open-access Cold War archives & untold stories. By Prof. Tim Sayle
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Check out the details of this chapter of the Briefing Book “Canadian Policy and ‘The Vietnam Problem.’ 1962 – 1966”at Canada Declassified: https://t.co/aiBNlLcLc8
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October 1965, Operation Bacon was concluded. Ottawa’s verdict? The “charcuterie exercise” was done, yet Canada’s role as an ICC member remained significant.
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Check out the details of this chapter of the Briefing Book “Canadian Policy and ‘The Vietnam Problem.’ 1962 – 1966”at Canada Declassified:
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June 1965, a newspaper headline read "LBJ's man in Vietnam Really a Top Canadian", Op. Bacon may have been burned. Beyond the operation’s confidentiality breach, there was considerable concern that Bacon was “exacerbating DRVN antagonism to the USA and annoyance with Canada”.
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Herbert Norman, Canadian intelligence officer, diplomat, and historian of Japan carried out counterintelligence in postwar Tokyo. His task, monitor Japanese patriotic societies and their members.
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In early 1965 Operation Bacon’s viability was coming into question. The Johnson administration’s diplomatic messaging and ongoing airstrikes undermined the operations objectives.
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Substack: https://t.co/KO832zEbhQ Image Citation: Lubyanka 1961, FOTO:FORTEPAN / Dobóczi Zsolt
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Oleg Gordievsky’s KGB defection is a classic Cold War story of espionage and escape! Codenamed OVATION during his debriefings in England, what information was shared with Canada? What can we learn from it now?
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Check out the details of this chapter of the Briefing Book “Canadian Policy and ‘The Vietnam Problem.’ 1962 – 1966” at Canada Declassified:
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The complex politics of Canada’s position as an ICC representative and as an interlocutor for the US continued to degrade as US intervention increased. Canada was also facing challenges reconciling views between members of the ICC.
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Image Citations: Ransom, Jason/Library and Archives Canada [LAC]/Stephen J. Harper fonds [SJHf]/R16093-8303-X-E Ransom, Jason/LAC/SJHf/R16093-8324-7-E Ransom, Deborah/LAC/SJHf/R16093-21080-4-E Ransom, Deborah/LAC/SJHf/R16093-21053-1-E
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The [Redacted] on Terrorism. Just don’t call it a war! What can we learn from sanitization of records describing Canada’s role in Afghanistan after September 11, 2001?
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Check out the details of this chapter of the Briefing Book “Canadian Policy and ‘The Vietnam Problem.’ 1962 – 1966”at Canada Declassified:
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An explosive military clash between US and N. Vietnamese forces in the Gulf of Tonkin placed Operation Bacon on unstable ground and further complicated Canada’s position.
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Image Citations: Nazi POWs: Bundesarchiv, MSg 2 Bild-14835-09/Unknown author/CC-BY-SA 3.0 Secret Listener: Credit: Trent Park Trust/WWII Secret Listening Operations, UK Maj. Eisenhardt: Duggan, Frank. Major Ian Eisenhardt. 1944, McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal, CA
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Ping-pong intelligence! One of Canada’s contributions to British psychological warfare operations of World War II… Recreational materials!
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Check out the details of this chapter of the Briefing Book “Canadian Policy and ‘The Vietnam Problem.’ 1962 – 1966”at Canada Declassified:
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