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FRIDAY, JUNE 18 1971

SECRET U.S. PAPERS SHOW

Vol. 32, No. 24

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CANADA ACTED AS AGENT
FOR PENTAGON IN VIETNAM

Carried U.S. bombing
ultimatums to Hanoi

By MAURICE RUSH
Top secret documents on the Vietnam war published
this week by the New York Times points the finger
directly at Canada for its involvement in carrying U.S.
threats to the North Vietnam government in direct
violation of its commitment as a neutral on the
International Control Commission.

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As a member of the ICC set up
by the Geneva Conference
Canada’s responsibility along
with its other members was to
police the Geneva Agreement
and to investigate and condemn
violations of that agreement.

Instead, the Canadian
representative on the Com-
mission, J. Blair Seaborn,
carried messages from the U.S.
government warning North
Vietnam that if they didn’t give
in to U.S. demands they faced
devastation from bombing.

What is equally contemptible
is that Prime Minister Pearson
and the Canadian government
knew long before the U.S.
started its bombing of North
Vietnam that these were being
contemplated, but as a member

J. BLAIR SEABORN, Canada’s
representative on the Interna-
tional Control Commission, who
carried U.S. threats to Hanoi
rather than protest U.S. escala-
tion of the war.

of the ICC did nothing to protest
to the U.S. before they began.
Rather, they lent their member-
ship on the ICC to carry threats
on behalf of the U.S. government.

The top secret documents
reveal that the U.S. state
department and Pentagon used
Canada as a weapon in its war
against the people of Vietnam,
and as an instrument to further
U.S. war plans in Southeast Asia.
All this happened during the
summer of 1964 and 1965 and it
was not until about a year later,
after widespread devastation
had taken place, that Prime
Minister Pearson midly ques-
tioned the U.S. bombing of North
Vietnam.

The writer of this article was
in North Vietnam in November,
1965, a few months after the U.S.
bombing began and saw some of
the widespread devastation
with hospitals, schools, homes
and industries in ruins. The PT
reported the results of U.S.
bombing raids at the time.

In the discussions our

delegation headed by Tim Buck,
had with Premier Pham van
Dong and Ho Chi Minh at the
time, we found that they would
not talk much about the role of
the Canadian representative on
the ICC stationed in Hanoi. They,
however, left no doubt in our
minds that they considered
Canada a stooge of the U.S. It’s
obvious now that they had good
reasons for feeling so.

The specific instructions
carried to Hanoi by the Cana-
dian representative left no
doubt that Canada must have
been fully aware that we were
lending our services to further
U.S. war aims and that Ottawa

See VIETNAM, pg. 12