---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 21:37:36 -0400 From: Bob Olsen To: dbleakney@cupw-sttp.org Subject: Your RCMP/CSIS file is available Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:06:27 -0700 From: Sid Shniad Subject: PEACE GROUPS MONITORED BY RCMP SECRET POLICE: FIGHT BACK WITH THEIR SECRET INFORMATION PEACE GROUPS MONITORED BY RCMP SECRET POLICE: FIGHT BACK WITH THEIR SECRET INFORMATION All across Canada, in cities and towns, the RCMP monitored peace groups they considered subversive to the proper order of society. Any protest was monitored as the Government feared all organized opposition. The RCMP would even break & enter premises in order to gather material for the inclusion in their files on protest groups. Many of the RCMP Security Service (SS) files were transferred to the National Archives of Canada (NAC). This means that secret RCMP files on protest groups ARE NOW AVAILABLE TO YOU! All you have to do is request the files from the National Archives, and you will be able to prove the wrong- doings and civil rights violations by the RCMP which went unchecked for decades, and continue today under CSIS. Now, before you become all worried that this takes lots of time and money and knowledge, let us assure you that it does not. Requests can be, and often are, hand-written. Although forms for making requests are available from public libraries and government offices, they are not required. It costs $5.00 to apply for files on groups and activities. In the event that they are not forthcoming with the files, making a complaint to the Information Commissioners is free, and can be hand-written in one sentence. Such simple complaints are often all that is required to finally get files. It need only state that you are dissatisfied with the response of the NAC, and that you would like the Commissioner to investigate and get more material released. The Commissioners will do the rest. In Ottawa, go to the NAC Reference Room and view the public RG146 finding aids for the secret files. There are hundreds of pages of lists of groups and activities and protests which were observed and noted by the RCMP undercover agents and their moles and snitches. If you are not in Ottawa, you should ask the NAC to make a copy of the finding aid available to you in your city through the office of your local Member of Parliament. These files can be accessed by anyone. An electronic version of the AIA request form is available at: http://www.cio-dpi.gc.ca/ip/infosource/Info_6/Request-Frms_e.html Simply make a request in writing, using the form or letter, by mail, and include $5.00 per file part, to: Access to Information Coordinator National Archives of Canada 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0N3 tel. (613) 947-1532/954-4142 fax. (613) 992-9350 Simply state that you request access to an RCMP file under the Access Act (AIA) of Canada. Just describe in as much detail as possible the records you seek. It is best to have gone through the RCMP finding aid (RG146) at the NAC first; this way you will be able to quote the file reference. However, you could simply give the name and location of the protest group, and have the NAC look it up for you. Then add $5.00 and send it to the NAC. The NAC then has 30 days under the AIA to respond, and they will not meet this deadline, so you must immediately, on day 31, write a letter of delay complaint to the Information Commissioner, stating that the NAC is in a deemed refusal (late) position. Make the complaint soon, as it will help force the release of information. Simply state your name, address and the fact that the NAC has not properly responded to your request. You must write to the Commissioner and say that your request was not done in the required time limit, and/or that the response did not include all the requested records, and/or that the response was heavily and unjustly severed: Information Commissioner of Canada 300-112 Kent Street, Ottawa, ON, K1A 1H3 tel. (613) 995-9976/995-2410 fax. (613) 947-7294 http://infoweb.magi.com/~accessca/oic.html Eventually, and you can wait a year for an initial release, some documents will show up in your post-box. Remember to give the NAC a new address if you move. At least 50% of the material in the subject files will have been deleted by CSIS before it is released by the NAC. Immediately complain to the Commissioner (see above) about the unreasonable deletions, and that office will undertake an investigation which will hopefully result in the NAC releasing more documents. You do not have to justify the reason for the deletions, as this was not your fault. Just complain! Many researchers have had to make multiple requests and ask for multiple investigations by the Commissioner in order to finally access much of the files. Last, if you are interested in current (1984-1999) secret police files about a group, you should consider writing to the RCMP and CSIS and requesting a file release under AIA. You will note that the RCMP still show up at all demonstrations, and were certainly active in monitoring peace and protest groups long after that function was to have been transferred to CSIS. Using the method described above, simply write or fax, and send $5.00 to: Canadian Security Intelligence Service Mr. Garnet Barlow, Access Coordinator PO Box 9732, Ottawa, Postal Terminal Ottawa, ON, K1G 4G4 tel. (613) 231-0107, fax. (613) 842-1271 toll free 1-877-995-9903 Royal Canadian Mounted Police Access to Information Coordinator Access to Information Department 1200 Vanier Parkway Ottawa, ON, K1A 0R2 tel. (613) 993-5162, fax. (613) 993-5080 PEACE and PROTEST GROUPS MONITORED by the RCMP Notes: the first number (between 697 and 801) is the volume number, and should be used in the request. The number following the file name refers to the number of file parts for each title. If there is no number, then there is only one file part. The largest has some 50 file parts. If you want the file on End the Arms Race from Vancouver, then ask for: RG146, Volume 697, End the Arms Race Committee, Vancouver , 2 file parts. Send the NAC $10.00 for the two AIA file requests. 697 End the Arms Race Committee, Vancouver 2 698 Finnish Organization of Canada, Peace Committee, Toronto UJPO Peace Committee, Toronto Mainland Nova Scotia Peace Committee 2 Montreal Peace Council 699 Montreal Peace Council 11 700 Montreal Peace Council 11 Canadina Peace Congress, Ontario 3 Thunder Bay Peace Council 701 Thunder Bay Peace Council 9 London Peace Council 4 702 London Peace Council 2 Ottawa Peace Council 11 702/703/704/705/706 Toronto Association for Peace 34 706 Windsor Peace Council 2 707 Windsor Peace Council 4 Sudbury Peace Council 3 Hamilton Peace Council 6 St. Catherine s Peace Council Porcupine Peace Association, Timmins 3 Peace Council, Oshawa Welland Peace Council 708 Manitoba Peace Council 12 709 Manitoba Peace Council 9 Action Committee, Winnipeg Sask. Peace Council 4 710 Sask. Peace Council 14 711 Peace Council Swift Current 2 Peace Council Regina 9 712 Peace Council, Sask 7 Kamsach Peace Council 2 713 Kamsack Peace Council Moose Jaw Peace Council 4 Pelly Peace Council Verugen Peace Council Peace Council Choiceland Peace Council Wynyard Peace Council Prince Albert 8 714 Peace Council Rpince Albert Peace Council Porcupine Plain Alberta Peace Council 3 Calgary Peace Council 5 Edmonton Peace Council 4 715 Edmonton Peace Council 10 Drumheller Peace Council 716 British Columbia Peace Council 13 717 British Columbia Peace Council 15 718 British Columbia Peace Council 11 719 British Columbia Peace Council 2 Surrey Peace Council 4 BC Peace Council Finance 6 720 Maple Ridge Peace Council Kamloops Peace Council 3 Central Peace Council Whalley Peace Council New Westminster Peace Council 2 Fraser Valley Peace Council Peace Council, Sointule Penticton Peace Council Langley Peace Council 2 Mission Peace Council 2 721 Victoria Peace Council 4 Kimberley Peace Council Peace Council, Websters Corner Finnish Peace Council, Websters Corner Committee for Peace and Disarmament, Vernon 7 722 Burnaby Peace Council 4 Alberni Valley Peace Council Comox Valley Peace Council Vernon Peace Council Cdn Peace Congress, Naniamo 2 Vancouver Peace Assembly 2 BC Peace Council Cdn Peace Congress, Case History 4 Cdn Peace Congress 723 Cdn Peace Congress, General Executive Committee 5 Cdn Peace Congress, General Council 8 Cdn Peace Congress, Canada 724 Cdn Peace Congress, Canada 2 Cdn Peace Congress, Presiding Committee, Canada Cdn Peace Congress, National Conferences & Conventions 2 Cdn Peace Congress, National Conference, Toronto 2 Cdn Peace Congress, Conference on the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1984. 2 725 Cdn Peace Congress, Conference on the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1984. 2 Cdn Peace Congress delegations to/from Soviet bloc 4 Montreal Writers Workshop Communist Peace Campaign, International 5 726 Communist Peace Campaign, Canada 8 727 Orgaizational profiles of Cdn Peace Congress Orgaizational profiles of Quebec Peace Council (APC) Peace Will Win, BC 3 Peace Farm, NS Alliance for Nuclear Disarmament, Moncton NB Crusade for Peace Programme, Mont Royal Que Peace Station Network, Toronto Greenpeace Foundation International 3 728 Greenpeace Foundation International 8 729 World Peace Force Foundation, Cdn Section Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Halifax 3 Quebec Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Quebec 7 Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Montreal Toronto Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 2 730 Toronto Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 2 Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Ottawa 4 731 Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Ottawa 10 Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament London 2 Welland Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament St. Catherine s Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Sault Ste Marie Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Manitoba Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Winnipeg 2 732 Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Winnipeg Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Sakatoon 4 Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Regina 4 733 Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Regina 2 Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Edmonton 12 Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Calgary 2 734 Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Rycroft Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament British Columbia 10 735 Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament BC 10 Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament West End Group Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Port Alberni Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Prince George Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Victoria Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Canada 736 Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Canada 12 737 Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Canada 12 738 Cdn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Case History, Canada Peace by Peaceful Means Society, BC Peace by Peaceful Means Society Vancouver Peace by Peaceful Means Society Victoria Church Peace Mission, Interdenominational, Toronto 2 Women s International League for Peace & Freedom Toronto Women s International League for Peace & Freedom Edmonton Women s International League for Peace & Freedom Vancouver 3 Midtown Peace Committee, Toronto Student Union for Peace Action, Dalhouse Univ 2 Student Union for Peace Action Quebec Student Union for Peace Action Laval Univ 2 Student Union for Peace Action Montreal 739 Student Union for Peace Action Montreal 15 740 Student Union for Peace Action McGill Student Union for Peace Action Sir Georhe Williams Univ Student Union for Peace Action Univ of Montreal New Left Committee, Univ of Toronto 11 741 New Left Committee, Univ of Toronto 3 Student Union for Peace Action McMaster Univ 3 Student Union for Peace Action Ottawa Student Union for Peace Action Carleton Univ 7 Student Union for Peace Action Kingston 742 Student Union for Peace Action Kingston 3 Student Union for Peace Action Regina 4 Student Union for Peace Action Univ of Alberta, Edmonton 4 New Left Committee, Univ of Alberta, Calgary Student Union for Peace Action UBC, Vancouver New Left Committee, SFU, Vancouver New Left Committee, Canada 744 New Left Committee, Canada 14 745 New Left Committee, Canada 7 746 New Left Committee, Canada 14 747 New Left Committee, Canada 9 Society for Peace Through International Freindship, Edmonton 2 Cdn Students for Nuclear Disarmament, Toronto 2 Student Committee for Chinese Democracy Policy, Canada Cdn Students for Nuclear Disarmament Voice of Women Speaks for World Peace, Canada 748 Women s Committee for Peace Action, Alberta Women s Committee for Peace Action, Vancouver Women s Committee for Peace Action & aliases, Canada 2 Cdn League for Peace and Democracy, Nova Scotia Cdn League for Peace and Democracy, Montreal 2 Cdn Youth Against War and Fascism, Montreal Cdn League for Peace and Democracy, Sudbury Cdn League for Peace and Democracy, Chatham Ont Cdn League for Peace and Democracy, Ottawa Cdn League for Peace and Democracy, Brandon Cdn League for Peace and Democracy, Winnipeg Cdn League for Peace and Democracy, Saskatoon Cdn League for Peace and Democracy, Regina Cdn League for Peace and Democracy, Alberta Cdn League for Peace and Democracy, Edmonton 3 Cdn League for Peace and Democracy, Calgary Cdn League for Peace and Democracy, Lethbridge Cdn League for Peace and Democracy, Blairmore Cdn League for Peace and Democracy, British Columbia 749 Cdn League for Peace and Democracy, Vancouver 3 Cdn League for Peace and Democracy, Canada 3 Cdn League of Youth Against War and Fascism, Canada Committee for No War over Berlin, Montreal Mothers for Peace, Montreal Cdn Peace Research Institute, Hamilton Cdn Peace Research Institute, Toronto Cdn Peace Research Institute, Edmonton 2 Cdn Peace Research Institute, Calgary Cdn Peace Research Institute, Canada 6 750 Cdn Peace Research Institute, Canada 12 751 Cdn Peace Research Institute, Canada 7 Cdn Peace Research Institute, Case History Cdn Peace Research Institute, (blank) Canada Trade Union Women s Committee for Peace, Vancouver Lithuanian Peace Committee, Montreal Sask. Peace Coordinating Committee 752 Sask. Peace Coordinating Committee 2 Calgary Peace Coordinating Committee Nuclear Disamament and Peace Movements, Quebec 4 Nuclear Disamament and Peace Movements, Montreal 4 Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Montreal Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Toronto 2 Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Ottawa 753 Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Canada No Nuclear Arms for Canada Committee, Hamilton Montreal Peace Center 5 Montreal Peace Center School of Violence Toronto Peace Center 6 Grindstone Island Peace Center 4 754 Grindstone Island Peace Center 5 Peace Center, Sholem Aleichem School, Winnipeg Peace Information Center, Alberta Vancouver Peace House League for Total Disarmament, Vancouver Friends of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Montreal SNCC Univ of Western Ontario SNCC Cdn Friends, Univ of Toronto 4 755 SNCC Cdn Friends, Univ of Toronto 4 Friends of SNCC, Queen s Univ Ottawa Friends of SNCC 3 Friends of SNCC, Sask Friends of SNCC, Univ of Sask Friends of SNCC, Regina Friends of SNCC, British Columbia Friends of SNCC, Vancouver Friends of SNCC, Canada 4 Cdn Regional Committee of the Christian Peace Conference 756 Peace Coordinating Committee, Vancouver 3 Cdn Youth for Nuclear Disarmament, BC BC Women s Committee for World Friendship 2 Movement for Non Violent Revolution, Quebec 757 Peace Friends Anti-Atomic Beneficial World Federation, Canafa Cdn University Services, Overseas, Moncton NB 5 Society of Friends (Quakers), Montreal Society of Friends (Quakers), Ontario Society of Friends (Quakers), Manitoba Society of Friends (Quakers), Saskatchewan Society of Friends (Quakers), Alberta Society of Friends (Quakers), British Columbia Society of Friends (Quakers), Canada 3 Citizens for Nuclear Disarmament, Montreal Niagra Peace Movement 3 North York Peace Committee, Toronto Eastern Alberta Peace Committee Ad Hoc Committee for Peace Action, Toronto 758 Committee for Peace in the World, Montreal The East York-Scarborough Anti-War Committee, Toronto Peace Action League, Victoria 6 Vancouver Peace Action League 3 759 Vancouver Peace Action League 4 Voters for Peace, Toronto 764 Nuclear Disarmament Club, UBC, Vancouver 2 765 Nuclear Disarmament Club, UBC, Vancouver 773 Non Violent Revolutionary Movement, Montreal Ottawa Committee for Peace and Liberation 2 774 International Association of Educators for World Peace, Univ of Alberta, Calgary Cdn communist front, peace and protest groups: direction and control by communist bloc countries Youth for Peace, Toronto 775 Drive to End all Nuclear Testing, Victoria Cdn Coalition to Stop the Amchitka nuclear blast, BC Student Mobilization Committee, Ontario Student Mobilization Committee, BC Coalition for Peace, land and bread, Vancouver Peace and Development, Canada 6 776 Tree of Peace, NWT Christian Movement for Peace, Toronto Alliance for Non-violent Action, Canada 5 Comite Quebecoise pour le desarmement, Quebec 2 Project Plowshares, Canada 777 Project Plowshares, Canada 3 Edmontonians for a non-nuclear future 2 Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Edmonton Halifax Committee against imperialist war 2 Arts for Peace, Canada 2 Peace petition caravan Campaign 3 778 Peace petition caravan Campaign 2 Guelph committee against imperialist war preparation 2 Conseil Estrien de la paix 2 Committee for justice and peace in Ireland 2 Quebec youth for peace and aliases Housewives consulmers association Peace association, York township Anti-war congress, Sask. Peace Council, British Columbia 5 779 Peace Council, British Columbia 15 780 Peace Council, British Columbia 14 781 Peace Council, British Columbia 14 782 Peace Council, British Columbia 4 793 Peace Council and aliases, subversive actions, Glace Bay NS Cap Breton Peace Council and aliases Peace Council activities, Sydney NS McGill Univ Student Peace Council 2 794 Workers committee for peace, Quebec City 4 Peace Committee, Verdun Que Jewish peace committee, Montreal Campaign for nuclear disarmament, Montreal Youth congress against war and fascism, Toronto Parkdale peace association, Toronto Jewish peace committee, Toronto Peace Council, Alton Ont Women s committee for peace action, Timmins Student Peace Council, Toronto 2 Peace Committee, Brantford 2 Peace Council, Youth, Toronto Peace Council, Simcoe Kirkland Lake Peace Association Peace Committee, Thorold Ont 795 Cdn artists for peace, Toronto Peace Council, Kingston Peace Council, Brandon Student Peace Council, Univ of Manitoba Peace Council, Lac du Bonnet Peace Council youth, Winnipeg Jewish Peace Committee, Winnipeg Women s Peace Council, Kamsach Peace Council, Pretty View Sask Youth Peace Council, Battleford Peace Council, North Battleford Alberta Peace Council, Lethbridge 795 Committee for the abolition of nuclear testing, Calgary West-End Peace Council 2 Jewish Peace Council, N. Vancouver South Hill Peace Council, Vancouver North Shore Peace Council, N. Vancouver Peace Council, Trail BC 769 Peace Council, Trail BC Student peace league, Vancouver Prince Rupert Peace Council Peace action committee, Nakusp BC Peace Council, Whonnock BC Port Kells Peace Council Peace Council, Haney Campbell River Peace Council Britannia Beach Peace Council Seymour Heights Peace Council Lake Corvichan Peace Council White Roch Peace Council Courtenay Peace Council Salmon Arm Peace Council Rsukin Peace Council Cumberland Peace Council World council of peace, Case History International medical association for the study of living conditions and health Protest re: nuclear and biological warfare 2 World peace brigade Women s international strike for peace 2 797 Women s international strike for peace 7 Women s international liaison committee for international cooperation 4 International confederation for disarmament and peace 3 798 International confederation for disarmament and peace Multilateral force for peace, international 2 801 Pugwash conference, History and Organization NOTE: this list is not complete. All protests against the war in Viet Nam, as well as peace congresses and conferences, have been excluded for reasons of space. Even if your group or event is not on this list, there may still be a file held by the NAC, RCMP, or CSIS, and it is therefore worth asking informally (without a formal AIA request) if there is such a file. ............................................. Bob Olsen, Toronto bobolsen@interlog.com .............................................