Secret Cold War plan included mass detentions of Canadians
CBC News | The secret contingency plan, called PROFUNC, allowed police to round up and indefinitely detain Canadians believed to be Communist sympathizers.
Comment: the Government of Canada has indeed put out lists on Canadian citizen's in a government research report, as well as many others in other countrys. Click Here to see what was said..
According to these people who wrote the report they want people rounded up, criminally charged, with the use of the terrorist act they wanted put in place, with government approval....
PROFUNC was a top-secret plan to detain thousands of Canadians, if needed, in the event of a national emergency.
At the height of the Cold War, the Canadian government crafted a top-secret plan to detain thousands of citizens with Communist links in the event of a national security threat, according to a joint CBC/Radio-Canada investigation.
The secret contingency plan, called PROFUNC, allowed police to round up and indefinitely detain Canadians believed to be Communist sympathizers.
The CBC's The Fifth Estate and Radio-Canada's Enquête investigative programs have unearthed troubling details about PROFUNC, which stands for PROminent FUNCtionaries of the Communist Party.
ENEMIES OF THE STATE:
Watch the full report on Radio-Canada's Enquête and on CBC's The Fifth Estate at 9 p.m. ET Friday. The investigation has discovered that information gathered under PROFUNC's mandate may have been used during the 1970 October Crisis, when Canada invoked the War Measures Act and suspended civil liberties to end escalating violence sowed by the Front de Libération du Québec, known as the FLQ.
PROFUNC is believed to be one of the most draconian national security programs in Canada's peacetime history.
First devised in 1950 by RCMP Commissioner Stuart Taylor Wood, PROFUNC listed some 16,000 suspected Communists and 50,000 sympathizers who would have to be watched, and possibly interned, in a national security emergency.
Under the plan, targets on the list could be detained indefinitely, subject to severe discipline, and shot if they tried to escape detention.
The blacklist included prominent Canadian public figures - men and women, and their children - whose identities were kept hidden in sealed envelopes filed at Mountie detachments across the country. Files included personal details such as age, physical description, photos, vehicle information, and housing, even the location of doors to be used in potential escapes.
The files were regularly updated until the PROFUNC's demise in the early 1980s, prompted by administrative changes introduced by Robert Kaplan, Canada's solicitor general at the time.
October Crisis suspects not just FLQ sympathizersCBC and Radio-Canada have learned that PROFUNC's blacklist may have been used to bolster the number of suspects rounded up during the October Crisis 40 years ago, many of whom had no connection to FLQ activities.
Daniel Waterlot, who used to manage a Communist bookstore in Montreal, was arrested during the October Crisis. (Radio-Canada)The October Crisis was triggered by a pair of political kidnappings orchestrated by two separate FLQ cells, British trade commissioner James Richard Cross, and, later, Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte, who was eventually murdered.
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act on Oct. 16, in a bold attempt to stamp out the FLQ and resolve the kidnappings. With civil liberties suspended, police and army troops fanned out on the streets of Ottawa and Montreal to restore order.
Retired Lt. Julien Giguère was head of Montreal police's anti-terrorism squad at the time.
"We had some names" of FLQ sympathizers, said Giguère in an exclusive interview with Radio-Canada's Enquête program. "The Sureté du Québec [SQ, provincial police] added some names."
There were at most 60 names on the initial police list after the War Measures Act was invoked, Giguère said.
CBC/Radio-Canada has learned that Quebec's provincial police, thought that list was too short, given the extreme measures implemented by Trudeau. So the RCMP stepped in, offering to add names to the list of roundup targets.
As many as 500 people ended up in arrest in the hours following the War Measures Act was invoked including many with no known links to the FLQ.
"They came into my library and they broke everything," said Daniel Waterlot, who managed a Communist bookstore called Livres et périodiques progressistes in Montreal's St-Henri district at the time of the October Crisis. "Me, I wasn't an FLQ, I was with the Communist Party. It's not the same thing."
Waterlot's thick RCMP file contains no references to any FLQ activity. But CBC/Radio-Canada has found evidence that Waterlot was on the PROFUNC arrest list.
With files from Enquête, the Fifth Estate
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At the height of the Cold War, the Canadian government crafted a top-secret plan to detain thousands of citizens with Communist links in the event of a
national security threat, according to a joint CBC/Radio-Canada investigation.
The secret contingency plan, called PROFUNC, allowed police to round up and indefinitely detain Canadians believed to be Communist sympathizers.
The CBC's The Fifth Estate and Radio-Canada's Enquête investigative programs have unearthed troubling details about PROFUNC, which stands for PROminent FUNCtionaries of the Communist Party.
ORIGINALLY BROADCAST ON Friday, October 15, 2010
Enemies of the State
Linden MacIntyre reports on the secret plan to detain thousands of Canadians.
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How to find out if you were in the Profunc files Canada's national security departments and agencies
Enemies of the State: SynopsisIt seems hard to imagine today that a Canadian government would approve a plan to round up thousands of law-abiding Canadians and lock them away simply because they were perceived to be a threat to Canadian democracy.
Conceived in the early days of the Cold War, the top-secret plan called "Profunc" was to be enacted if Canadian national security was threatened. The fear was stoked by the outbreak of the Korean War, which looked as if it might become the precursor to WW3.
In Canada, the head of the RCMP drew up a plan to lock up "Prominent Functionaries," including known communists and other people deemed to be subversives. The plan is breathtaking in its scale and detail. It listed those who were to be arrested, where they would be interned and how they were to be treated. Families of targeted people were not spared: many wives and children were to be locked away as well.
Incredibly, The Profunc blueprint remained in place until the 1980s. Only today are some people learning for the first time that they and their families were deemed Enemies of the State. The names of those people will astonish most Canadians.- "Enemies of the State' also explores the targeting of possible 'subversives' today and asks what kinds of lists might exist that the Canadian public doesn't know about. Here is one that the Federal government of Canada put out on one of their websites, click here for a PDF file or a download a zip file and see page 109 for the terrorist list put out by the government on fathers and fathers rights groups. Also see what Betty Hilon said in the house of commons on the hit list not only in canada but was used in many other countrys on those who disagreed with the government propaganda they put out in government publcations."
- How you can find out if you were in the Profunc filesIf you suspect that you or a member of your family might have been a target for detention, or even a person of interest under the Profunc plan, here is how to proceed.
- As files may be spread across the following three federal departments, you first may want to call the Privacy Coordinators at CSIS, RCMP and Library and Archives, or you may want to make a written request to all.
- If you are looking for your own files, use the Privacy Act:
- Step 1: Fill out a Personal Information Request form: .DOC FILE 40kb
- . Under "Federal Government Institution" write either "CSIS", "RCMP", or "Library and Archives Canada". Under "Provide details regarding the information being sought" write: All information that either "CSIS", "RCMP", or "Library and Archives Canada" has regarding me.
- If you are looking on behalf of a family member, use the Access to
- Information Act:
- Step 1: Fill out an Access to Information request form: .PDF FILE 50kb
- . Under "Federal Government Institution" write either "CSIS", "RCMP", or
- "Library and Archives Canada"
- . Under "Provide details regarding the information being sought" write: All
- information that either "CSIS", "RCMP", or "Library and Archives Canada" has
- regarding the person's name.
- . You'll be expected to provide personal identifying information of the
- person, such as date and place of birth.
- . You also need a letter of consent showing you have their permission to
- access their personal information.
- . a $5 application fee
- . If the family member is dead, you will need a proof of death document.
- This could even be an obituary from the newspaper.
- . If they have been dead for more than 20 years, you may access their
- personal information. But bear in mind that other people's personal
- information will be redacted, and other blacked out sections can apply.
- . Is they have been dead for less than 20 years, the rule is that no
- personal information may be accessed unless in the closing of an estate.
- There are exceptions made, and they are dealt with on a case by case basis.
- Step 2: Send to the appropriate federal department:
- CSIS:
- Nicole Jalbert
- Access to Information and Privacy Coordiantor
- P.O. Box 9732 Station T
- Ottawa, Ontario
- K1G-4G4 Telephone: 613-231-0121
- Facsimile: 613-842-1271
- jalbertn@smtp.gc.ca
- RCMP:
- Yves Marineau
- Access to Information and Privacy Coordinator
- 1200 Vanier Parkway
- Ottawa, Ontario
- K1A-0R2
- Telephone: 613-993-5162
- Facsimile: 613-993-5080
- Yves.J.Marineau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
- Library and Archives Canada:
- Bill Wood
- Access to Information and Privacy Coordinator
- 395 Wellington Street, Room 350
- Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0N4
- Telephone: 613-947-3888
- Other Telephone: 1-866-578-7777
- Facsimile: 613-992-9350
- bill.wood@lac-bac.gc.ca
Canada's national security departments and agencies
Canada's national security operations involve not only CSIS and the RCMP, but also more than twenty other federal departments and agencies.
As revealed in the 2006 Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar, the federal government "draws upon the expertise and mandates of several federal departments and agencies in pursuing an increasingly integrated and coordinated approach to national security."
Provincial, territorial and municipal police forces also work with the federal government and have an important role in Canada's national security.
The following federal departments and agencies, according to the Privy Council Office, have "key" national security responsibilities:
. Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
. Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)
. Communications Security Establishment (CSE)
. Department of Finance
. Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)
. Department of Fisheries and Oceans/Canadian Coast Guard
. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT)
. Department of Justice
. Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Forces (CF)
. Health Canada/Public Health Agency of Canada
. Integrated Threat Assessment Centre
. Privy Council Office (PCO)
. Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada (PSEPC)
. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
. Transport Canada
. Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA)
PCO identified the following departments and agencies as having national security responsibilities:
. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
. Canadian Food Inspection Agency
. Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
. Canadian Heritage
. Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC)
. Environment Canada
. Natural Resources Canada
. Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
. Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS)
In the United States - Enemy of the State goes much further
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Panics, orchestrated crises, media hype and propaganda have been used in the name of “protecting the people” for generations. Governments have resorted to this to further gain control over free populations. This happened most recently during the H1N1 Flu “Pandemic” of 2009 and the Hurricane Katrina tragedy before that.
The H1N1 Flu scare saw government and media exploitation of the facts to scare people into lining up for the Swine Flu vaccine; a vaccine that was not widely tested and saw Health and Human Services Director Kathleen Sebelius shield both the government and vaccine makers from lawsuits for problems arising with the vaccine. The Hurricane Katrina disaster proved that American’s are truly not free, as some New Orleans residents found they could not rely on their Constitutional Rights. Local police and National Guard disarmed and drove residents from their homes, even though most were prepared to stay.
Training given to “peace officers” for use during emergency scenarios indicates there could be a total loss of liberties for the United States population. What happened to their oath to protect and defend our Constitutional Rights? CNN, the Southern Poverty Law Center and other media outlets air special “reports” and name call anyone who questions the government as “conspiracy theorists” in an effort to suppress information.
Yet, with the de-classification of decades-old documents, it can be found that many of these “conspiracy theories” are not so theoretical after all. Enemy of the State: Camp FEMA Part 2 takes a look at the government and media manipulation of an unwitting public, and plans that have been laid out through legislation, Executive Orders and Presidential Directives that pave the way for the elimination of many, if not all, of our most basic rights.