PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Thursday, December 1, 1977 News agency break-in unnecessary Bugging investigation By LEW DIGGS MONTREAL (CP) — RCMP analysts con- cluded Jast year that an illegal police break-in at a left-wing news agency in October, 1972, was unnecessary and inef- fective. An internal RCMP report, tabled Tuesday at a Quebec inquiry, was prepared in March, 1976, shortly after an RCMP constable on trial on an unrelated charge revealed that police were responsible for the break- in at the Agence de Presse Libre du Quebec. The report said an “operations group” of six officers who helped plan the raid believed the break-in succeeded in destroying a group which shared the news agency’s building and was believed to be a legal cover for the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ). But the analysts wrote that in 1972 the FLQ itself was demoralized, devoid of popular support, and composed of new cells manned by ‘‘vulgar petty criminals committing thefts, obtaining arms and dreaming of airplane hijackings rather than by revolutionaries inspired by Che Guevara.” WAS NO THREAT After the FLQ’s defeat in the 1970 October Crisis, “the conduct of the neo- FLQ showed that .. it could not constitute a serious menace to national security,’’ they said. “Nevertheless, taking into account the paranoia created by October, 1970, at the time, police forces could have been justified in thinking the contrary.” Attached to the report was an explanatory letter to RCMP security service director Michael Dare . from Chief Supt. Donald Cobb, head of the force's security and intelligence operation in Quebec. Cabb pleaded Euilty last May along with two other senior officers—one each from the Quebec provincial and. Montreal police-—to a charge of authorizing: the raid without first obtaining a search warrant. His letter gave a summaty of the dispute between the operations group and the analysts “who are generally critical of this sort of operation.” HAMPER AGENCY The theft of documents from the Movement for the Defence of Quebec sre n asi (MDPPQ) was designed to “kill the organization completely’ and ta seriously hamper the work of the Agence de Presse Libre. The operations group suspected the news agency of having links with international ter- rorist and revolutionary ‘OUps. But the analysts wrote that the raid was poin- tless because ‘'the MDPPQ was already a moribund, leaderless movement rife with in- ternal dissension” and hardly in a position to serve for an FLQ which was itself disorganized. Cobb wrote that the theft of Agence de Presse Libre documents may even have reinforced the agency’s dynamism. The report says Cobb was only informed of the raid at the last minute and authorized it because security seemed ‘‘air- tight” and a withdrawal would have harmed relations with Montreal and provincial police. Meanwhile, wrangling between the inquiry and the federal solicitor- general’s office continued as federal lawyers ob- jected to an attempt to obtain internal RCMP documents pertaining to as-yet undisclosed ac- tivities of the Mounties in Quebec. Michel Robert, representin Solicitor- General Francis Fox, said he would hand over only those documents pertaining to events he said were covered by the inquiry’s mandate—the news agency break-in, the burning of a barn used by leftists, the theft of Parti Quebecois membership rolls and the theft of dynamite by an RCMP agent. He said later that the existence of other documents does not necessarily mean that other illegalities oc- curred. In another develop- ment Tuesday, RCMP Sgt. Henri Pelletier testified it was possible that .the Mounties’ security service used informants inside CNCP Telecommunications and the Canadian Overseas Telecommunications Union to intercept telegrams. But he de- scribed the information as hearsay. AWARE OF THEFT Pelletier, in his second appearance on the wit- ness stand, said he was also aware of Operation Ham—the code name for the theft of Parti Quebecois membership Mail volume to decline TORONTO (CP) — A further decline in the volume of mail handled by the post office is ex- pected when postal rates increase on April 1, an executive of the Canadian Direct Mailing Association says. Edward Heather, resident of Postal romotions Ltd., said that, based on what happened after rates increased in 1968, there will be an inevitable de- crease in volume, par- ticularly in second-and third-class mail. He said association > commence January Pa ta: ete etstet stat Nataterecetenta?. eee etetts Seeger vo onan va ee safeambtitadefotetetere fete postal rates which average 21 per cent for the various classes of mail at a time when the a guidelines are for in- creases of six per cent. Heather said there is 4 decline in the volume of secondand third-class mail being sent, yet these two classes are getting the highest rate in- creases. He said the increase will make private courier services even more competitive with the post office and may tempt companies like Bell Canada to find an alternative of 5 otetete"e" School District No. 88 (TERRACE) Applications are invited for the following teaching positions to 3, 1978. 5. Jr. Sec. Science... Biological sciences, background preferred. Please forward applications with supporting documents promptly District Superintendent of Schools * files and financtal in- formation in a Jan. 9, 1973, raid—and thought it was legal. He also said one of his dtiasi dro b u participated, without his prior knowledge, in the theft of dynamite and the burning of an Eastern Townships barn. He said he heard rumors that “the dynamite was needed to ve to a informer in order to give him status’’ in terrorist circles. Pelletier said he never asked about the incidents because the officer had been acting under orders from Staff Sgt. Donald McCleery, one of Pelletier’s own superiors. ‘explosives had been closely controlled and no Basic bomb building course QUEBEC (CP) — A junier college has suspended six chemistry teachers for instructing students on how to make incendiary bombs, smoke grenadee and other explosives in the school’s laboratory, even though the college administration had approved of the classes. Yvon Hamel, director-general of the govern- ment-funded Limoilou College, said Tuesday 175 students took part in the experiments. The students were given a small red book called “Le Commando de Pif” (The Bang Com- mando) which put them in a hypothetical situation in which they were pitted against a col- lege administration and police were called in to end a student demonstration. “So here you are,” the booklet says. “You need arms. Why not manufacture.them? You have everything you need in this college—an equipped laboratory.”' The idea was to interest the students in carefully monitored experiments with ex- plosives, Hamel said. ; Jacques Couture, co-ordinator for the college chemistry department, said that quantities of danger was involved. MADE FIRECRACKERS . But Couture, who was not involved in the ex- periments, said some students had taken small amounts of explosives from the laboratory and used them as firecrackers-in the halls of the 5,200-student college. ; Hamel explained that the college ad- ministration learned of the booklet Nov. 7 and told the chemistry department to suspend the experiments and explain the idea. But on Nov. 10, after hearing from the teachers involved and advising the RCMP, the admin- istration authorized continuing the experiments except for one involving a percussion grenade, illegal under a federal explosives law. . e experiments continued for four days, until the directorgeneral of a provincial government council overseeing Quebec colleges ordered the experiments cancelled. in Monday, six teachers articipating experiments were temporarily suspend Provincial police said they have been looking into the case together with municipal police for about two Weeks. , in the by the Volkswagen conspiracy VANCOUVER (CP) -- proceedings of the A preliminary hearing hearing, expected to last began Tuesday into until Dec. 21. charges seven Van-- Charged under the couver-area Volkswagen. car dealers conspired to prohibit or lessen com- petition in the sale or supply of Volkswagen ly parts in Greater Vancouver between September, 1974, and No- vember, 1977. ; At the request defence lawyers, Provincial Court Judge David Moffett ordered a ban on publication of News of ROME (Reuter) — Newspaper, news agency, radio and television journalists. teletype operators and rint workers throughout taly went on a 24-hour strike today. The journal- ists’ and printers’ unions said the news blackout caaeieict ~ reticent "ats sceienats eee tate eeeeceieetatele: TRS . Grade 5-6 Background in athletics - especially basketball =: would be an asset. s . Grade é —Background in Art, Music, or Elementary 5 French would be an asset. * 3. Grade é-7 —Sufficient knowledge to teach Elementary Band = desired. eh 4, Grade é-7 This is a new position. Mr. F.M. Hamilton = Box 460 Terrace, B.C. VaG 4B5 = 495", ae als Combines Investigation Actare: Wetmore Motors Ltd., Volkswagen Pacific Sales and Service (1975), Ltd., Guildford Motors Ltd., Clarkdale Motors Ltd., Capilano Volkswagen Ltd., Westminster Volkswagen (1975) Lid. and Cowell Motors Ltd. The Crown does not claim that Volkswagen Canada Ltd. was in- volved. strike VICTORIA (CP) Deputy Attorney-General Dick Vogel said Tuesday that publicity over a wiretapping operation in the Victoria area means that a month-long in- vestigation has been wasted. . He said a wiretapping centre was set up in a garage in the Victoria suburb of Saanich to investigate. organized crime, and it was un fortunate . that striking British Columbia Tele- phone employees disclosed its operation. Vogel said the resulting publicity means . the operation wil) have to be shut down, and therefore three weeks to a month of police work has been lost. Saanich Police Chief Bob Peterson said, however, that discovery of the listening post should not affect any investigations. “I don't think it blows ‘ the operation,” he said. “The location of the listening post and the lo- cation of the target don’t have to be that close together.” WON'T SAY WHOSE Vogel refused to disclose if the 25-phone operation would be set up elsewhere, or whose lines were being tapped. The operation was made public Saturday by striking Tele- communications Workers Union members who said they were afraid it was being used to monitor union phones. A spokesman for the provincial government's Co-ordinated Law En- forcement Unit (CLEU) said § Tuesday the operation was run by the Joint Forces Operation (JFO), the investigative arm of CLEU. He said the JFO is concerned only with organized crime. ; “We are not involved in any labor dispute and we don’t want to be,” the spokesman said. ‘That is our (telephone) lines, and that is that.” He added that there were only 25 phone lines running into the garage, not 50 as claimed by the union. OTHER LINES “But we do have 25 lines elsewhere and they're all billed together so anyone seeing a billing certificate might think there was 50,” the spokesman said. A union representative saying there is a ‘50-pair- cable in there, but only 20 were hot to start with— the 30 others were con- -nected just before~ the strike and it was the timing’ of it that made us so nervous.” He said. that even though CLEU has claimed responsibility for the operation, there is still some concern that Bartenders bow out VANCOUVER (CP) — The Hotel, Restaurant and Bartenders Union, Local 40, Tuesday with- drew an application before the British Columbia Labor Re- lations Board to represent workers at a neighborhood pub : already represented by another union, board registar Ron Boone said. . are the The workers represented by " Service, Office and Retail Workers Union of Canada (SORWUC), which has been on strike at Bimini’s pub for six weeks. Head bartender Victor Welsh, who organized the local 40 signup, said the bartenders union backed -away from the dispute after the B.C. Federation of Labor warned that the union could be expelled from the federation. The federation’s constitution states that no affiliate can take part in any action that would assist an employer in a strike situation. Bimini owner Peter Uram refused to negotiate while the certification fight was on. Glen Morgan, vice- president of local 40, said the union withdrew the OE SRG NG NOPE ROA FE YIN GIR A ES CHRIS'S JANITOR SERVICE. once again offers REDUCED PRIGES FOR XMAS DEEP . STEAM CLEANING “LET SANTA PARK HES SLEIGH ON A GLEAN CARPET” HOVEMBER SPECIAL BEAT THE RUSH CALL HOW FOR A FREE ESTIMATES 635-6588 AE OA YG EIS Ya UR HERG PE IEG SE PE Kir PE NS ISHS eM application because of pressures, not because of threatended expulsion from the federation. “It was... an error on our part to even apply for certification,” he said. Welsh said he sought ‘out*local 40 because he ' fears “SORWUC con- centrates “too much on women’s issues. Bimini’s enploys mostly women. the equipment might be used to listen in on union lines. Resident of the house, Frank Beamish, said he wasted did not know anythin about the operation, an that he rents the area in- volved to his son, Bill Beamish, who later refused comment. Camarata coming Camarata, a Canadian group will be here next Saturday, December 3rd at $:15p.m. in the R.E.M. Lee Theatre for a per- formance in our concert series. Terrace Concert Association is proud to continue presenting such excellent quality artists as we have been for- tunate in seeing this year. novalive programming made that Festival’s music programme one of the most talked about in the country. Camerata constantly springs suprised, the lightning virtuosity of a Quantz flute solo can swing into a Jaxx- Baroque concerto. Even a specially arranged version of Bach's Musical Camerata-The Friends- Offering is on tap. from Toronto has Their “Romantic received high praise from many places. 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