-Caveat Lector- June 28, 2002 Please sir, can we have the summit security papers back? by James Doran in Calgary
“THERE are some people here to see you, sir,” the Canadian official said. Outside the press building at the G8 summit yesterday stood a secret service special agent, a Mountie, and an off-duty Canadian policeman in T-shirt and shorts. All looked rather sheepish. Could I give them back a secret 134-page document detailing security at the G8 summit, they asked? I had found the document, marked “confidential”, on a boulder in a busy picnic area close to the summit headquarters the previous day. Had it fallen into other hands the safety of Tony Blair, George Bush and other world leaders could have been jeopardised. It lay open at a page detailing the security protocols for the arrival of each of the world leaders at Calgary airport on Tuesday night. It showed the seating plans inside Tony Blair’s helicopter, including the locations of security guards and Alastair Campbell, his communications chief. It also contained secret phone numbers of each leader’s Canadian liaison officers, who were responsible for organising the arrival and departure of each President and Prime Minister. It contained diagrams of the meeting rooms where the leaders held their working groups, lunches and dinners. The room plans showed where each leader sat and where windows were positioned, to help security guards to protect the G8 leaders against the threat of sniper fire and other attacks from outside. Dozens more pages gave a minute-by-minute account of each leader’s itinerary. There were details of exit doors used at the summit buildings, and journeys by motorcades and helicopters and the names of security personnel protecting the delegates. The breach is a huge embarrassment for the Canadian Government, which spent millions of dollars on the country’s biggest security operation since the Second World War. Some 7,000 Canadian soldiers, members of the Calgary police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers were mobilised. Armoured personnel carriers, heavy security gates and laser-guided anti-aircraft missile launchers lined the 60-mile road from Calgary to the summit in Kananaskis. The American Secret Service was outraged by the security breach, as were the Calgary police and the RCMP. On hearing that The Times had found the document, which was issued only to authorised security and event personnel, each agency sent an officer to collect it. The officers refused to answer questions although one agreed that the fact that the highly sensitive document had been lost in public was a serious breach of summit security. Michael O’Shaugnessy, a spokesman for the Canadian Foreign Affairs ministry, said: “The document you have is a working document used by the summit management. It is subject to change.” He declined to comment further. A spokesman for Mr Blair also declined to comment. -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
