Cold War Hot: Alternate Decisions of the Cold War by Tsouras Peter

Author:Tsouras, Peter [Tsouras, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 185367530X
Publisher: Tantor eBooks
Published: 2012-04-11T00:00:00+00:00

My dear colleague,

The following points emerge from the interrogation:

1) A French covert unit which included OAS persons committed the murders in Gatineau and elsewhere. The Black Guard organization does not exist.

2) Soviet Bloc equipment is trickling past our naval forces but not in large quantities.

3) The FLQ has expanded its cell structure to Metis areas in Manitoba and Acadian areas in northern New Brunswick.

4) The QPM continues to expand guerrilla operations in the hinterland but does not have enough trained manpower even to conduct small unit operations. The blockade prevents them from acquiring enough heavy weapons to equip such forces.

5) Former Militia personnel have been consolidated into three light infantry battalions and possess enough equipment and ammunition to conduct effective defensive operations in Montreal. Another battalion is in Quebec City.

Sincerely,”18

Canadian Cabinet Foreign Affairs Committee: August 15, 1968

Secretary of State for External Affairs: “Our attempts to use the Langois transcripts in the North Atlantic Council to force NATO members to censure France have failed. We cannot, obviously, use the taped recordings…”

Justice Minister: “Clearly, no…”

Secretary of State for External Affairs: “The McGovern administration is in the process of extricating itself from Vietnam and trying to maintain peace in the continental United States. The demonstration in Washington, DC, yesterday required an entire infantry brigade to contain.”

Minister of National Defence: “We are hearing disturbing things from our counterparts in West Germany. Some bright light in the Bonn government named Egon Bahr is proposing the eventual unification of East and West Germany after a warming up period he calls Ostpolitik. We understand that there are many who support such a move.”

Secretary of State for External Affairs: “Our embassy in Bonn confirms this. Furthermore, our intelligence sources in West Germany tell us that there was a secret meeting between representatives of the West German government and the Soviet Union. We can only speculate about what this means, but it will mean the end of NATO as we know it.”

Chief of Defence Staff: “West Germany about to go, France gone, the Scandinavians questionable, Turkey and Greece at each other’s throats over Cyprus. Italy marginalized by its revolving door government. The Americans distracted… That leaves us, the Dutch, Portuguese, and the British.”

Justice Minister: “Is your briefer here yet?”

Chief of Defence Staff: “He was delayed. The transport he was on was hit by anti-aircraft fire coming out of St Hubert.”

Colonel Enfield: “Gentlemen.”

Chief of Defence Staff: “Please continue, Colonel.”

Colonel Enfield: “Discussions with the Americans in the Military Cooperation Committee have given us a better appreciation of the situation. Word came through this morning that Bonn has ordered the withdrawal of all NATO-tasked forces from West Germany.”

<shocked gasps>

Unidentified: “Shit!”

Colonel Enfield: “The American view (Administration and Joint Chiefs of Staff) is that we no longer have a credible deterrent system in place. First, the deterrent forces in the NATO Central Region, with the withdrawal of the Canadian Brigade Group from NORTHAG, are no longer able to defeat a Warsaw Pact attack and would have to resort to theater nuclear weapons’ use.”

Chief of the Defence Staff: “So? We have that capability.

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