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March 4, 2003
ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever!
Before I write anything else, I would still like more
readers on my list to sign the petition at http://www.PetitionPetition.com/cgi/petition.cgi?id=5230
We are now at 835 signatures, and I would like to have a
round 1,000 before we submit it to the Powers that be.
Please sign - and spread the word on your respective lists.
Now to some very serious business:
Ernst Zundel is in maximum lockdown in the Niagara Detention
Center. I talked to him very briefly yesterday and a little longer this
morning. He says the guards hang their heads because they are ashamed at
what is happening but will not give him any explanation why he has to be in
lock-down 24 hours a day. He says that he is being treated like Rudolf Hess,
having his food shoved in without words, being permitted only a plastic
spoon/fork combination - called a "spork", by the way - some kind
of black humor? He writes his notes to himself and what letters he is
allowed to send on the seat of his toilet, the only surface available to
him.
I believe this treatment is being meted out to keep him from
communicating with anyone, including media. The reason is that last Friday,
he told the "war crimes" attorney acting for the government that
the very agency, namely CSIS, that is trying to brand him as a
"terrorist" is the outfit that had knowledge of the parcel bomb en
route to the Zundel-Haus to kill him in 1995 - yet did not see fit to warn
him or anybody else!
This WILL be said at the next hearing - if such a hearing is
ever to take place. Allegedly, this hearing, scheduled for Friday, is open
to media. When I talked to Ernst this morning, nobody had yet notified him
of the date. I feel I have reason to fear that Ernst's enemies will move
heaven and earth, and may even attempt to harm him, to prevent this hearing
from happening.
Here is the pertinent information that has only recently
come to light in a book titled "Covert Entry / Spies, Lies and
Crimes: Inside Canada's Secret Service" by Andrew Mitrovica.
Andrew Mitrovica is one of Canada's leading investigative
journalists. He has won numerous national and international awards for his
reporting. He has worked at the fifth estate, CTV national news, W5 and most
recently at the Globe and Mail, where he covered security and intelligence
issues. Born in Melbourne, Australia, Mitrovica lives in Toronto.
The inside book flap carries this text:
"Canada's espionage agency, CSIS, enjoys operating
deep in the shadows. Set up as a civilian force in the 80s after the RCMP
spy service was abolished for criminal excesses, the Canadian Security
Intelligence Service was to be a squeaky-clean contrast to its disgraced
predecessors. But it's hard for Canadians to get a fix on how well CSIS is
doing its job or how well it is behaving. This country's spymasters work
diligently to prevent journalists, politicians and watchdog agencies from
prying into their secret world.
"Few journalists have come close to rivaling Andrew
Mitrovica at unveiling the stories CSIS does not want told. In COVERT
ENTRY, the award-winning investigative reporter uncovers a disturbing
pattern of venality, law-breaking and incompetence deep inside the
service, and provides a fascinating window on its daily operations.
"At its core, COVERT ENTRY traces the eventful career
of John Farrell, a veteran undercover operative who worked on some of the
service's most sensitive cases and was ordered to break the law by senior
CSIS officers in the name of national security. Mitrovica delivers a
ground level, day-to-day look at who is actually running the show in
national clandestine operations. The picture he paints definitively
shatters the myth that CSIS respects the rights and liberties it is
charged with protecting."
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From the back flap we learn this about John Farrel, the CSIS
undercover agent who came out of the closet about his, and other
operatives', illegal activities:
"As a dedicated operative in CSIS's covert war
against terrorists and spies, John Farrell was once a true believer in the
intelligence service's "Ways and Means Act": if you have a way
to get things done, the means - legal or not - are justified. He is the
first CSIS operative to openly discuss the details of his highly
classified work. Whether he is condemned or applauded for breaking his
silence, Farrell is offering up his story so that Canadians can gain a
clearer understanding of what actually takes place in this country in the
name of national security. And what this unofficial tour deep inside the
service's cloistered world reveals is an alarming portrait of incompetence
- and worse."
This hardcover, put out by Random House Canada, is listed at
$35.95 and is available from Amazon.
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Mitrovica addresses how CSIS dealt with Ernst Zundel, a
lifelong opponent of those individuals, groups and organizations who do not
want the orthodox version of the Holocaust challenged, much less
investigated. In the vernacular referred to as the Holocaust Lobby, Zundel
has many times characterized the actions of this powerful and ruthless
entity as being an extortion racket based on fictitious stories regarding
the genocidal gassings of Jews in World War II in German concentration
camps.
As you read Mitrovica, please keep in mind that this
investigative journalist describes a highly unpopular, politically incorrect
dissident activist who has been systematically demonized by Canadian media
for decades - while under a judge's gag order for years that prevented him
from defending his motives and honor.
Page 136 - 140 of Covert Entry:
Mitrovica: Ernst Zundel was another prime target of CSIS's
allegedly covert campaign against white supremacists. For years, the
balding, German-born immigrant ran what amounted to an anti-Semitic
propaganda factory from his Victorian home in downtown Toronto. Working
out of his ramshackle basement, Zundel churned out pamphlets on his
printing press, held meetings and gave lectures, all with a common theme:
the Holocaust was a hoax.
(Zundelsite comment: Ernst Zundel did not work out of a
"ramshacke basement". He worked out of a four-story Victorian home
on prime real estate in downtown Toronto - a 14-room building packed to the
ceiling with original documents, newspaper clippings, books, pamphlets,
affidavits, original World War II memoirs, photographs, slides, audios and
videos, court transcripts, government documents etc.
The Zundel-Haus was probably the world's largest private
repository of evidence documenting that the true events of World War II were
different from the brutal Hollywood-created version depicting Germans as
genocidal monsters on a rampage to kill every Jew in sight, primarily by
"gassing".
The Zundel-Haus was burned down on May 9th, 1995 - on the
50th anniversary of Germany's surrender to the Allies in 1945. Street talk
quickly pointed to a culprit. Ernst turned over to the police the name and
address of a punk who had been paid $200 by "someone" to douse the
building with gasoline - a criminal act of the first order that was actually
caught on a surveillance video. Canadian police chose to do nothing with
this tip and never even questioned the street person who did it.)
Mitrovica: The man who once described Hitler as his idol
distributed his message to fellow travellers around the globe in an
infamous booklet entitled DID SIX MILLION REALLY DIE? In it, Zundel
claimed the Holocaust was a Jewish-inspired fraud. Canada Post temporarily
stopped delivering Zundel's mail in 1981 because he was using the postal
service to spread hatred. In 1985, Zundel was sentenced to 15 months in
jail after being found guilty of wilfully causing harm to Canada's racial
and social harmony.
(Zundelsite comment: This paragraph is misleading through
omission. A postal commission, investigating the charge that Zundel
"spread hatred", cleared him of the charge after a year's worth of
investigation, stating in its verdict that - and here I quote from memory -
"the Holocaust is an issue between two peoples, the Germans and the
Jews" - recommending that the Canadian government should keep its nose
out of it.
The 15 months sentence was the result not of the judgment of
the postal hearing - it was the result of what is known as the FIRST GREAT
HOLOCAUST TRIAL of 1985, where, upon appeal, the judge was found biased,
leading via many legal detours to the 1988 SECOND GREAT HOLOCAUST TRIAL
which gave birth to the best-selling Leuchter Report, still a thorn in the
Holocaust/Zionist-Lobbyists side.
The charge of these two trials that rocked the foundations
of the Holocaust myth, was not that Ernst was "wilfully causing harm to
Canada's racial and social harmony" - it was that Zundel was
"spreading false news." This charge, brought by a Holocaust
survivor but soon taken over by the government, was based on an ancient law
out of the Thirteenth Century in England that Canada had on its books,
forbidding wandering minstrels to "defame the kings" with ribald
songs. That legal prohibition had no relevance in modern Canada. After a
nine-year legal battle, on August 27, 1992, the Supreme Court of Canada
overturned this ancient law, striking down the "false news" law as
a violation of the guarantee to free speech contained in the Canadian
Charter of Rights and Freedoms, thereby adopting Zündel's viewpoint on
freedom of speech. The court's decision, as summarized in the headnote to
the case, was as follows:
Section 2(b) of the Charter protects the right of a minority
to express its view, however unpopular it may be. All communications which
convey or attempt to convey meaning are protected by s. 2(b), unless the
physical form by which the communication is made (for example, a violent
act) excludes protection. The content of the communication is irrelevant.
The purpose of the guarantee is to permit free expression to the end of
promoting truth, political or social participation, and self-fulfillment.
That purpose extents to the protection of minority beliefs which the
majority regards as wrong or false. Section 181, which may subject a person
to criminal conviction and potential imprisonment because of words he
published, has undeniably the effect of restricting freedom of expression
and, therefore, imposes a limit on s. 2(b).
In the Mitrovica paragraph that follows, the author
summarizes this legal battle spanning almost a decade:)
"Three years later, [Zundel's] conviction was upheld
on appeal. But in 1992, Zundel won an unexpected victory when the Supreme
Court of Canada overturned his conviction on a charge of knowingly
spreading false information about the Holocaust. The decision, not
surprisingly, thrilled and emboldened the Holocaust denier and his
supporters, including the nascent Heritage Front.
(Zundelsite Comment: The Heritage Front was an organization
ostensibly created for the purpose of giving White Canadian Youth a place
where they could find some fellowship and mutual support in a violently
hostile multicultural environment that routinely discriminated against them
by favoring non-white immigrants in seeking employment, scholarships, grants
etc. I say "ostensibly", for as was discovered shortly thereafter,
the Heritage Front was, in fact, a CSIS setup where a CSIS-paid agent
provocateur, Grant Bristow, tried to provoke and incite White kids to
foolish racist statements and even violence. When a Toronto reporter, Bill
Dunphy, exposed this CSIS infiltration of the Heritage Front to the media,
it caused a huge public relations problem for CSIS. Eventually, there was a
government whitewash, and the "problem" petered out.
This CSIS sore broke open around 1995 - exactly at a time
when a Toronto mob of street punks, called ARA (Anti-Racist Action) was used
by persons unknown to inflame Canadians against Ernst Zundel. At one time,
the city was blanketed by thousands of posters showing Ernst's face in the
cross-hairs of a rifle and giving a map of the location of the Zundel-Haus.
This hate- and defamaation campaign soon thereafter led to the actual
fire-bombing of the Zundel building.)
Mitrovica: After winning his legal reprieve, Zundel often
made public appearances wearing a hard hat and carrying a large wooden
cross.
(Zundel-Haus comment: Actually, I believe he carried the
cross only once to force a photo op, knowing that an otherwise hostile media
would not be able to resist this visual. The cross still exists in a safe
place in Canada. One day it will grace a Free Speech museum.)
Mitrovica: To his followers, [Zundel] was a courageous
martyr in the fight to protect freedom of speech. His opponents thought
differently. In late 1993, they descended on his home, hurling paint
canisters and eggs.
(Zundelsite comment: Actually, they hurled more than eggs.
They defecated into plastic bags and hurled feces! Somewhere among my tapes
there exists a recording of the howling of that mob, chanting "Kill
Zundel! Burn Zundel down!" If you listen to that tape, you'll think you
hear the howl of devils!)
Mitrovica: Zundel had prepared for the onslaught by
wrapping his home in plastic. Riot police beat back the demonstrators. The
ugly skirmish helped Zundel and his admirers get the media attention they
longed for.
(Zundelsite comment: This is a typical comment by a liberal
journalist brainwashed into assuming that Zundel's cause was unjust and was
not based on years of serious, detailed study of the Holocaust issue that
led to his conclusion that the Holocaust was merely a propaganda piece to
extract reparations from Germany and good-will gestures, including lavish
financial aid and other perks, for the Israeli and Disaspora Jews from the
United States and other Western countries. Ernst has always been a
convenient target for ritual denigration by mainstream media. Sadly,
Mitrovica is no exception.)
Mitrovica: But CSIS was also training a close eye on
Zundel. The service was busy intercepting mail for Zundel's home from a
postal station at 1 Yonge Street. Farrel says Zundel was also watched by
the service. The APIs were called when Hitler's admirer was seen posting
mail. A Canada Post driver would then be summoned to open the mailbox and
allow an API to retrieve the mail. Who was this API? Frank Pilotte, [a
postal inspector] though Farrell was often enlisted to help. Letters and
packages for Zundel arrived from all over the world. On some days he
received as many as 20 pieces of registered mail. CSIS was keen to
establish a list of Zundel's worldwide supporters by noting the return
addresses attached to each piece of correspondence. To Farrell's surprise,
Zundel often received letters of encouragement and support from doctors,
lawyers, university professors, as well as prison inmates.
(Zundelsite comment: Ernst Zundel has many distinguished
admirers all over the world who have followed his outreach campaign for
decades. It does great injustice to the image of this decent and non-violent
human rights activist, who has dedicated his life to the defense of his
vilified parents' generation, to paint Ernst Zundel as some political
dimwit, hysterical "Neo-Nazi", or media-greedy publicity hound. He
has thousands of letters from distinguished sources all over the world that
prove otherwise.)
Mitrovica: Farrell noticed that Pilotte took a particular
interest in Zundel's mail. Just how much interest became apparent early
one morning when the two APIs met behind a large grocery store on Danforth
Avenue. Pilotte drove up in his white Buick, while Farrell arrived in his
Geo Metro, a car he liked because it saved him money on gas. Pilotte had
just returned from the postal station carrying a batch of Zundel's
letters. As he flipped through the mail, Pilotte noticed that one letter
was partially open. Curious, he decided to unseal it. Farrell urged him
not to, warning him that the letters might be booby-trapped and that he
was only inviting more trouble from Lunau. [Don Lunau was Farrell's
superior] Pilotte opened the letter. Inside, he found a short note
addressed to "Dear Ernst" urging the Holocaust denier to
continue his campaign "to tell the truth." To help in that
effort, the letter also contained a ten-dollar American bill, which the
API slipped back into the envelope.
"It was amateurish," Farrell says. "It was
none of the API's business what was in the mail."
Farrell didn't want to get embroiled in Pilotte's
escapades, but as the program's troubleshooter, he had little choice. He
told Lunau, who once again went easy on Pilotte.
Then Farrell caught a break on the Zundel beat during one
of his routine visits to Canada Post's station at 1 Younge Street.
Dishevelled and unshaven, he arrived at 6:30 a.m. and walked up to the
station's second floor offices. He lumbered through a door leading to a
restricted area that housed bag after bag of registered mail. On his way,
he waved at Patrick Hilberg, the registration clerk who often handled
Zundel's registered mail, and George Fyfe, the station's supervisor.
Farrell had befriended them because he knew the pair could make his job a
whole lot easier. They didn't know he was working for CSIS; they assumed
he was still a postal inspector.
Farrell began rifling through the mail bags, searching for
Zundel's registered mail. He often had to flick through a thousand pieces
before plucking out Zundel's letters and packages. The mail, marked
priority post, arrived from Australia, Germany, Austria, France and
Switzerland. It was imperative that Farrell get his hands on the mail
before Hilberg, because once the clerk documented its arrival, the clock
began ticking on how long the service could hold on to the letters and
packages. The sooner Farrell dumped Zundel's letters back into the mail
stream, the less likely Zundel would complain about how tardy the postal
service was.
(Zundelsite comment: Incidentally, just yesterday I received
a letter that Ernst had written to me on February 14, 2003, sent out of
Blount County Jail, located 45 minutes from where I live. It took 17 days to
arrive!)
Mitrovica: Farrell reached into the mail bag and pulled
out a small box. Later he learned that he had just laid his hands on the
Heritage Front's complete membership list and the names and addresses of
every individual in Canada and overseas who received Zundel's anti-Semitic
literature.
(Mitrovica assumes that the Heritage Front mailing list and
the Zundel-Haus mailing list are identical. Not so! To my knowledge, CSIS
never did get the Zundel-Haus mailing list. They tried to compile one on
their own, as stated above, by copying the return addresses of Zundel
supporters.)
Mitrovica: It was an extraordinary stroke of luck. Rarely
did that kind of information fall so conveniently into the laps of spy
services. Finally, Farrell thought, Operation Vulva had paid dividends.
(Zundelsite comment: Does the name of this undercover
operation spell who was behind it? Those of us who have been the target of
relentless Jewish hatred have always been amazed at how sexual innuendos,
and especially a perverted fascination with feces, creeps into our enemies
actions and words - notice the "shit bombs" hurled at the
Zundel-Haus during various mob demonstrations!)
Mitrovica: Handling Zundel's mail was a risky business.
Violence gravitated to the Holocaust denier. A pipe bomb once exploded
behind his Carlton Street home, causing extensive damage.
(Zundelsite comment: Actually, it exploded *inside* his
garage in 1984, prior to the FIRST GREAT HOLOCAUST TRIAL in 1985. the
culprit has never been apprehended.)
Mitrovica: Farrell was always concerned when he
intercepted Zundel's mail. He knew the self-promoting propagandist had
enemies and that one day one of them might use the mail to deliver an
unmistakable and violent message to his front door. Farrell liked his
hands and wanted to keep them.
(Zundelsite comment: Now read the next Mitrovica paragraphs
carefully:)
Lunau warned the APIs to be especially careful when
handling any mail addressed to Zundel from a post office box from
Vancouver. He refused to explain why the Vancouver address was on a watch
list, but it was clear that he was worried that mail from that address
might be used to conceal a bomb.
Farrell's own nervousness peaked when Lunau ordered him to
temporarily stop intercepting parcels destined for Zundel's home. "I
got a call from Lunau and he said, 'Stop checking the parcels. Just check
the registered letters,' Farrell recalls. Lunau wasn't kidding. Farrell
could hear the urgency in his voice.
In May 1995, a package arrived at Zundel's door
apparently from a Vancouver post office box. Zundel let the package sit
unopened in his home for nearly a week before claiming to notice that
"it made a funny noise" when he shook it. He drove the
suspicious package, cushioned by a bag of bird seed in the trunk of his
car, to a local police station, where bomb experts discovered that it
contained a powerful pipe bomb filled with large nails. Police cordoned
off a block around the 51 Division police station in downtown Toronto. A
remote-controlled robot gingerly placed the package in a blast-proof
hopper. Later, the pipe bomb was detonated at a nearby spit, leaving
behind a large crater. Zundel said the parcel, camouflaged to look like a
book, bore an outdated return address for the post office box of his
friend Tony McAleer, a B.C.-based white supremacist. Police said the bomb
was packed with enough explosives to seriously maim or kill anyone within
ninety meters of the blast.
Zundel was certain that Jewish groups were behind a plot
to kill him. Initially, police investigated a phone call to the Toronto
Sun by someone claiming responsibility in the name of an unknown
organization called Jewish Armed Resistance. But the police weren't
convinced that the Holocaust denier was telling the truth about the
circumstances leading up to the discovery of the mail bomb. Why had Zundel
waited five days before alerting them to the suspicious package?
(Zundelsite comment: The bomb arrived 10 days after the
Zundel-Haus burned down, destroying an irreplacable library and causing
$400,000 damage. Volunteers by the dozens descended on the Zundel-Haus from
all over the US and Canada to help clean up the damage. To say that those
were hectic days is putting it politely. A few days before this parcel
arrived, Ernst had received a poorly written letter, gloating about the
arson and stating "Next time it will be BOOM!" He received book
parcels by the dozens every day - it was natural that after this warning, he
would be on the lookout for suspicious parcels. He handled this one, thought
it was too heavy for a book, put it aside after instructing his staff not to
touch it and, frankly, forgot about it in the havoc of dealing with the
horrid destruction of his life's work caused by both fire and water.
During the weekend, when things had quieted down a bit, he
remembered the parcel, even shook it - and then realized, after a totally
coincidental phone call by the "addressee", that the return
address was an outdated address. That's when he knew it was a bomb. It could
not have been a book sent by Tony.
Ernst called me that night in San Diego. He told me that
when he took that bomb to the police station, carefully bedded on a bird
seed box, his "...hair stood up on end" as de drove it carefully
around every bump on the road. When I asked him why he had not, instead,
called police to come and get the parcel, he said: "Do I need to get
the neighborhood upset with screeching police cars and howling sirens? The
neighbors are already traumatized by the fire which could easily have killed
the kids in the neighbor's house who had to jump out of the window, stark
naked..." In other words, he did not want to call attention to himself,
fearing more hostility.
As a sidebar, it should also be mentioned that when Ernst
told the police what he had delivered to them, their snide response was that
he may have sent the bomb to himself - for attention!)
Mitrovica: By late summer, however, the skepticism
evaporated. Several police forces launched a joint probe after mail bombs
were sent to five different targets: Zundel; another B.C.-based white
spremacist, Charles Scott; the Mackenzie Institute, a Toronto-based
terrorism and security-policy think tank; Kay Gardner, a Toronto City
councillor; and Alta Genetics, Inc., a Calgary cattle-breeding centre. The
Mounties believed that four of the bombs originated in Vancouver.
The mystery surrounding the mail bombs was solved when a
shadowy group of anarchists, called the Militant Direct Action Task Force,
sent "communiqués" to several media outlets claiming
responsibility for all the potentially lethal letters, save the one to Kay
Gardner. In its letters, which provided compelling evidence that the group
was behind the mail bombs, the anarchists responded to media reports about
the grave dangers to postal workers who had unwittingly handled the mail
bombs. "We have tested our devices and found that only extremely
rough handling (or opening them) would cause them to detonate. All
packages have been marked PERSONAL to keep unauthorized people from
opening them," the group wrote.
(Zundelsite comment: We believe the so-called Militant
Direct Action Task Force was a "false road flare" diverting
attention away from two highly suspect culprits, last names Thursten and
Barbarash. This terrorist duo was arrested, along with a girl, last name
Rubin, after the most intensive telephone spy operation ever in Canada - as
I recall it, 7,000 hours, that led the mounties to a storage place belonging
to the suspects where bomb making equipment was stored. The Canadian
Mounties know a thing or two about those people. So, one might reasonably
suspect, does CSIS. There were even the beginnings of a trial in Vancouver,
but the case has been dropped and the records have been sealed - for reasons
of "national security"!
Incidentally, the original arrest warrant stated that it was
issued "for suspicion of attempted murder of Ernst Zundel." Later,
that phrase mysteriously disappeared.)
Mitrovica: Farrell is convinced that the package
containing the pipe bomb delivered to Zundel's home was intercepted by
either himself or Pilotte. This raises the possibility that the
intelligence service was aware of the package's potentially lethal cargo
before Zundel received it. Farrell says Lunau's warning to temporarily
stop intercepting packages addressed to Zundel's home came only after
police had detonated the first pipe bomb. What CSIS might have done to
alert either Canada Post, Toronto Police or Zundel himself remains a
mystery. But what is clear is that the rash of letter bombs prompted
police to issue an extraordinary warning to Canadians to be extremely
cautious when receiving unexpected packages or letters.
Regrettably, Farrell says, Canada's spy service failed to
heed the warning and, as a result, unnecessarily put the lives of
Canadians at risk. That's because when CSIS resumed the interception of
Zundel's mail, it continued to ship hard-to-open packages by passenger
plane to Ottawa for inspection, even though a pipe bomb had already been
discovered. "My concern was that there could always be a bomb in
Zundel's mail," Farrell says. "And how are we sending that stuff
up to Ottawa? It was being shipped by Air Canada. So what do you think
was likely to happen if a bomb went off while we were transporting his
mail by commercial jet?"
Farrell repeatedly raised this issue with Lunau. "I
was concerned about my own safety and the crew and passengers on the
plane. I told Donnie many times that I didn't think it was wise to send
Zundel's packages up to Ottawa by plane. But he didn't seem that
concerned. I would say, 'Don, for the record, we shouldn't be doing
this." Lunau would say, "Okay. Noted."
Farrell rang the alarm, but no one at CSIS bothered to
listen.
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So much for Mitrovica's exposé of CSIS. And CSIS is the
very same Canadian government outfit responsible for Ernst Zundel's
detention - and that wants to tar him as a "security risk to
Canada"!
Ask yourself what kind of "justice" he will get.
I ask myself if he will live to tell his story Friday when
media will be there. I don't think I exaggerate the danger.
Ingrid Zundel
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