the deportation of revisionist Ernst Zundel — Mar 2003

Tennessee, March 3, 2003

Good
Morning from the
Zündelsite:

I
would still like more readers to sign
the
petition.
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.

ERNST ZÜNDEL 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 Zündel-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 rivalling 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.

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 book, put out by Random
House Canada, is listed at $35.95 and is available from Amazon.

MITROVICA addresses how CSIS dealt with
Ernst Zündel, a lifelong opponent of those individuals, groups and organizations who do not want the orthodox version of the Holocaust challenged, much less investigated. Zündel has many times characterized the actions of this powerful and ruthless entity, referred to in the vernacular as the Holocaust Lobby, 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:

Ernst
Zündel 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, Zündel
churned out pamphlets on his printing
press, held meetings and gave lectures,
all with a common theme: the Holocaust
was a hoax.

Zündelsite comment: Ernst
Zündel 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 Zündel-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 Zündel-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.

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,
Zündel claimed the Holocaust was a
Jewish-inspired fraud. Canada Post
temporarily stopped delivering
Zündel’s mail in 1981 because he
was using the postal service to spread
hatred.

In 1985, Zündel was
sentenced to 15 months in jail after
being found guilty of wilfully causing
harm to Canada’s racial and social
harmony.

Zündelsite comment: This paragraph is misleading through omission.
A postal commission, investigating the charge that Zündel “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.

[…]

But
CSIS was also training a close eye on
Zündel. The service was busy
intercepting mail for Zündel’s
home from a postal station at 1 Yonge
Street. Farrel says Zündel 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
Zündel 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
Zündel’s worldwide supporters by
noting the return addresses attached to
each piece of correspondence. To
Farrell’s surprise, Zündel often
received letters of encouragement and
support from doctors, lawyers,
university professors, as well as
prison inmates.

Farrell noticed that Pilotte took a particular interest in Zündel’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
Zündel’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
Zündel beat during one of his routine visits to Canada Post’s station at 1 Yonge 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 Zündel’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 Zündel’s registered mail. He often had to flick through a thousand pieces before plucking out
Zündel’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
Zündel’s letters back into the mail stream, the less likely
Zündel would complain about how tardy the postal service was.

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 Zündel’s anti-Semitic literature.

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.

Handling
Zündel’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.

Farrell was always concerned when he intercepted Zündel’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.

Lunau warned the APIs to be especially careful when handling any mail addressed to Zündel 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
Zündel’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
Zündel’s door apparently from a
Vancouver post office box. Zündel 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. Zündel 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.

Zündel 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
Zündel waited five days before alerting them to the suspicious package?

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!)

By
late summer, however, the skepticism
evaporated. Several police forces
launched a joint probe after mail bombs
were sent to five different targets:
Zündel; 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.

Zündelsite 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
Zündel.” Later, that phrase mysteriously disappeared.

Farrell
is convinced that the package
containing the pipe bomb delivered to
Zündel’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
Zündel received it. Farrell says
Lunau’s warning to temporarily stop
intercepting packages addressed to
Zündel’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 Zündel 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
Zündel’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 Zündel’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
Zündel’s packages up to Ottowa 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.

So much for Mitrovica’s exposé
of CSIS. And CSIS is the very same
Canadian government outfit responsible for
Ernst Zündel’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
Zündel

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