I.C.C. Canadians Allegedly Spied
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MONTREAL, May 10.
A leading Canadian journalist yesterday accused his countrymen, on the International Control Commission in Vietnam, of “functioning as spies” instead of acting as international civil servants.
Gerald Clark, an associate editor of the “Montreal Star", who has returned from Vietnam, said that Canadian officers on the commission were “betraying their trust by acting as informants for United States intelligence agencies.” He said he discovered that Canadians were passing information to the United States agencies while the External Affairs Minister, Mr Paul Martin, talked of turning the offices of the commission “into a peace-keeping medium for Vietnam."
commission “are not engaged in any clandestine or spying activities.”
“They are passing on their first-hand observations of North Vietnam, on the effectiveness of United States bombing attacks and on other matters of military significance.
The commission is composed of Poles, Indians and Canadians.
In Ottawa, Mr Martin said that the Canadians on the
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31366, 11 May 1967, Page 13
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