JUDICIOUS ASSASSINATION’ - Canadian urges coup in socialist states A Canadian army officer attached to the Defense Research Board in Ottawa and possibly NATO is openly calling for a policy of coup d’etats and bloody subversion in the socialist Jands of Eastern Europe. In the Pacific Tribune’s hands is a shocking account of an article written by Capt. D. J. Goodspeed, in an overseas volume entitled General Military Review which enjoys near-official status as a NATO journal. Sections of the article “The Secret Army,” were made availiable to the Pacific Trib- une through the Democratic German Report, a news bul-— letin issued regularly in Ber- lin by John Peet, formerly chief of the European sec- tion of Reuters News Agency. Following is the partial text of an article appearing in the Democratic German Report of January 3 dealing with Capt. Goodspeed’s views: The volume bears the title General Military Review in FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1958 ‘ Soeises Sah EDITORIAL A threat to all labor gan on November 14, 1957 is still deadlocked, despite all ef- forts of the unions involved to effect a reasonable and satis- - factory settlement. The monopoly mill owners, hoping to starve the striking workers back on the job, are “hanging tough” on a concilia- tion board award of a 7.5 percent wage increase which was rejected by over 88 percent of the pulp and paper workers in the seven key mills affected. The pulp and paper workers demanded a 12 percent in- crease and “fringe” benefits, demands fully justified on two major counts, high company profits and steadily rising living costs. Continuation of this strike deadlock by the operators ‘is compelling labor throughout the province to recognize that the issues are no longer the concern of the pulp and paper workers alone. Should the operators succeed in their “strategy” (design- ed months ago by Chamber of Commerce tycoons) of impos- ing a 7.5 percent increase over a two-year contract period, with a “starve-until-accepted” stand, that pattern will affect _ the wage negotiations of every union in B.C. and further afield. It is regrettable that International union officials, con- cerned with reaching an early settlement, have not taken that fact into account nor sought to mobilize the united moral and material strength of B.C. labor to see that it doesn’t happen. The B.C. labor movement has shown its readiness, if given the fullest opportunity, to make the strike of the pulp and paper workers its own. The take-it-or-leave-it attitude of the mill operators, highly-injurious to the provincial economy, and inimical to organized labor’s interests, makes it imperative tha: from now on the pulp and paper workers and the whole labor movement fight as a single united entity, against a cal- culated monopoly plot to throw a “standardized” 7.5 percent monkey-wrench into 1958 wage negotiations. = “THE strike of 6,000 B.C. pulp and paper workers which be-- three languages, English, Freneh and German, and it appears to be an official pub- . lication of NATO. It is nowhere described as such, but its “Patronage Com- mittee” includes every single prominent NATO commander. Most of the articles are of the sort one would expect in such a journal ... all routine and would not have earned the publication a mention here: what I found to be a rather non-routine was an article, “The Secret Army” by Canadian Captain D. J. Good- speed. In this extraordinary article Capt. Goodspeed does nothing more nor less than outline the staff problems involved in staging a coup @etat against an existing government. He makes it quite clear that he is proposing that such coups should be~ prepared against the socialist govern- ments in the People’s Democ- racies. Some extracts: “Since it is obvious that the most efficient and economical method of achieving a change of govern- ment by force is the coup d’etat, it would perhaps be worth considering in some- what greater detail what fac- tors are prerequisites to a successful coup. «| | the coup is, above all else, the result of careful plan- ning under a competent lead- ership. It is indeed the most aesthetically satisfying, as well as the most humane, of all military operations . “As conventional war be- comes more and more costly and uncertain . . . there will be a search for alternative methods of violence, and of these the coup is by all standards the most worthy of consideration.” Captain Goodspeed then goes on to show why, to his way of thinking, the socialist states are particularly vulnerable to a coup, and continues: “Insurgent leaders should endeavor to ensure that pub- lie opinion is inflamed against the government prior to the coup. Carefully selected acts should be performed which will’ provoke an official re- action, and this reaction should be presented to the public in the worst possible light . . . There is probably no better way of achieving this aim than by a judicious assassination or two. And so the article goes on. Captain Goodspeed carefully considers whether the rising should be led by a _head- quarters situated in the coun- try or in emigration, and in this connection mentions the possible necessity of launch- ing “small scale border raids to open up gaps in the border defences”. He also suggests the use of helicopters so that “well-financed emigre head- quarters” can keep in touch with their agents inside the country where the rising is being prepared. The Captain is quite frank about the use of lying radio propaganda. “The _ general public, from the very incep- tion of the coup, should be kept informed, not necessarily of what is actually going on, but at least of what-the rebels wish them to believe.” Then the Captain turns to the question of what I would describe as the White Terror: “Government suporters must be completely terrorized from the outset. In this the in- surgents should be utterly ruthless . . . All government supporters should be rooted out and disposed of without delay, and it is probably bet- ter to err on the side of feroc- ity in such an operation.” Peet concludes: “. . 9. A searching question in the Canadian parliament or the parliaments of other -NATO countries might not be out. of place.” y t NIGEL MORGAN |, ai Action!!! MR, BENNETT LABOR | FORUM | SPEAKERS’ PANEL — | __ aot ORVILLE BRAATEN Bus. Agent, Converters Local Pulp and Sulphite CEDRIC COX fyi CCF MLA Burnaby LPP Provincial Leader Open Discussion ES OP Ea FE, BE SUNDAY FEB 2 — 2p.m. |, PENDER | AUDITORIUM | Sponsored by LPP | Forum Committee. January 31, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE.