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I am currently attempting to find Corporal Brown (which could be an alias) from the RCMP, who met with me on a regular basis during the late 1970's. I would like to meet up with you again in order to get your story, looking from the other side, for our upcoming book, "The definitive History of Camp-X". Please contact me below.
"Early on in my investigation, I began to notice an odd occurrence. At the end of a telephone conversation regarding Camp X, there would be a peculiar noise after the other person had hung up. I would listen a bit longer and then I would hear a “click”. Mostly as a joke, and never really believing that there was someone on the line, I would sometimes say something like, 'Well guys, I hope you got all of that.' Or, 'Sorry about the fact that there wasn’t much information. Better luck next time.'
"Not long after this, I got a phone call from a Corporal in the RCMP. He said he would like to have a meeting with me and we agreed on a location. Ironically, it was the Genosha Hotel where a lot of the Camp X meetings had taken place many years before. We agreed to meet one Saturday morning for breakfast. He explained to me that some of the things I was doing were covered by the Official Secrets Act, and that if I continued with my investigation, I could be charged. Not knowing my legal limitations, I asked him, 'What kind of arrangements can we make?'
"He told me that if I were to bring all of my findings to him, and if they didn’t violate the Official Secrets Act, then I could use them in my work. At that time, Alan Longfield and I, my wife Marlene, and Alan’s wife Judi, were publishing the Camp X Museum Society Journal called '25-1-1'.
"From that time forward, the RCMP Corporal and
I had a standing arrangement that we would meet every third Saturday at
the Genosha Hotel for breakfast and I would bring to him any new information
I had discovered. He would then review it and say 'Yea or Nay'.
In one edition of the Journal, we had wanted to run the Igor Gouzenko story
but that was turned down at that time by the RCMP Corporal as still being
classified information.
There were other stories which were deemed 'classified'
by the RCMP and that I was not allowed to publish. The Howard Benjamin
Burgess story was one, for example. I could not investigate any such
classified information beyond what I had already discovered and I
agreed to comply with what could or could not be published in the journal.
In spite of the occasional frustration, the arrangement worked out well
in the end."
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