Posted by Greg from Abbotsford BC Canada on May 10, 2021 at 01:38:56:
In Reply to: Re: DND Selling off More Equipment (Let's make A Deal!) posted by Jules Deschenes on May 09, 2021 at 18:40:33:
I'm not saying that the treatment of our guardian
organizations has been equal or fair. In fact, the next
time one of Her Majesty's Cowboys or a member of CSIS
starts being a dink, point out that the RCMP Security
Service and CSIS, being responsible for catching those
who would steal our secrets, have caught exactly 1 foreign
agent, who ran screaming into the RCMP HQ in Ottawa. In
fact, in the early 80's, it was revealed that the head of
Counter-Intelligence for the RCMP was working for the
KGB. This was never proved, but he suddenly moved to
Austrailia. After this scandal, a Royal commission, based
on testimony by a former RCMP Security Service member about
the aforementioned barn burning, forced the creation of
CSIS. Last month, both the KGB and the agent in question
admitted that he was working for them with the specific
mission of sowing discord and distruption in Canada's
counter-intelligence services. If the Army screwed up
that badly (Imagine screwing up every peacekeeping op since
1950), we would have turned National Defence over to the
boy scouts. Oh, speaking of which, the above mentioned
Head of Counter-Intelligence once in front of witnesses
turned over the complete specs of Canada's front line
interceptor at the time to a known KGB agent, because, as
he explained at the debrief, "those specs will be obsolete
within a decade and it won't matter.". Huh?
So, to make a long story short, yes the Airborne got
screwed, yes the RCMP seems to get the fair-haired boy
treatment in comparison, yes it's unfair, but as I
wrote, Canada's politicians seem hell bent to turn our
guardian forces into social workers with a reasonable
profit margin. Don't blame the RCMP for the stupidity
of Ottawa.