Closely Guarded

Author: John Starnes  

Publisher: University of Toronto Press‎

Publication year: 1998

E-ISBN: 9781442673021

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Language: ENG

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Description

Starnes's memoir offers a fascinating look at Canada's security and intelligence work from the point of view of an official deeply involved in many covert government activities.

Chapter

1 Joining Up

2 Secret Intelligence Work

3 War Staff College

4 On Foot in the Blackout

5 Chargé d'Affaires

Part Two: External Affairs, 1945-1969

6 Robertson, Pearson, St Laurent

7 New York and Frisco, Bonn and Paris

8 A Rotten, Stinking, Depressing Job

9 Intense Midday Heat

10 Winds of Change

Part Three: Rethinking Security, 1970-1994

11 Compromise Candidate

12 Tough Cases

13 October 1970

14 McDonald, Keable, CSIS

15 Spy Novelist

Epilogue: Security and Democracy

APPENDICES

A: Documents re Wartime Military Intelligence

B: My Father's Memoir (Excerpt)

C: Planning Assumptions for Exercise Lazarus (1967)

D: Memoranda re Security and Intelligence (1969)

E: 'Current Threats to National Order and Unity - Quebec Separatism' (1969)

F: Minutes of Cabinet Meeting (19 December 1969)

G: Meeting re Stated Aims of 1969 (16 March 1973)

H: 'The FLQ and Quebec'(1970)

I: CCPP Minutes on 'Law and Order' (1970)

NOTES

INDEX

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