“Information believed true”: RCMP security intelligence activities on Canadian university campuses and the controversy surrounding them, 1961-1971

ID:	HARP-205
Title:	“Information believed true”: RCMP security intelligence activities on Canadian university campuses and the controversy surrounding them, 1961-1971
Source:	Canadian Historical Review , v.81(2) Je’00 pg 191-228
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Year:	2000
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Keywords:	Canada, democracy, French, human rights, security of family, United States, politics, police, civil and political rights, nationalism, right to privacy, liberty, assembly and association
Abstract:	The clash between demonstrators and members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the University of British Columbia during the 1998 Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) represents but a single incident in a long and secret history. For over sixty years, Mounties, through a variety of methods, monitored what was happening on campuses across Canada. Using RCMP documents, this article explores ten years of controversy surrounding the activities of Mounted Police on campuses across the country and examines the counter-subversion operations and tactics of the security intelligence wing of the RCMP. Although similar domestic intelligence activities in the United States have been studied extensively, they have been virtually ignored in Canada in favour of work on more glamorous counter-espionage and counter-terrorism operations. The period covered in this article was a significant one for the RCMP Security Service as, largely in response to French-Canadian nationalism, the arrival of the New Left, and the growing attendance of RCMP members at universities, it became increasingly sophisticated in its methods and analysis. The Security Service in existence at the end of 1971 was far different from the 1961 version.
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