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Not a good week for news either here or abroad; nothing to uplift or inspire. Writing in a superficiai and hurried way as the deadline draws near, minute by minute, I would like to put down a few thoughts about a current issue. The R.C.M.P., The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, have been known as one of the best police forces in the worid. At this Urne it is being sadiy discredited because of reported undercover- ac- tivities.1 I arn not, of course, referring to the "man on the beat"' type of thing or the officer behind the wheel of a vehicie but to the security division of the Force. Within the Force there are well trained men who are highly specialized in their own field. Neediesa to say there is a chance as there is i any profession that there can be a rotten apple in thé barrel. Ini the case of the police we could say there are some who make very poor judgments, are over-zealous, foolish and 50Ofl. However, on the whoie the segment of the police force which deas i undercover surveillance bas been very highly thougbt of and trusted to carry out their duties in a proper manner. "Dirty tricks,"1 oh yes and of course! How else could they perform their duties, some of which are difficuit to say the least. How i the world couid their work be productive and well done if there was flot any cover or very littie? It certainly is not reaiistic to think it ail has to be above board. On the surface the ordinary citizen has no idea of what it is ail about when it corne s to security operations, and it is a peace time operation as weli as war time, a constant, daiiy one. A police state, hardly. I don't think Britishers and Canadians would toierate such a thing or even the beginning of one. When people make judgments about this do they reaily know what it is ail about? I doubt it. Can undercover work be an open issue for the public to be privy to? That would be ridiculous. There has to be secrecy and when certain conditions prevail others have to be sometimes brought into the circle with the understanding that secrecy is of paramount importance and the cover must neyer be biown. This means that the person or persons con- cerned must deny any knowledge whether by false- hood or any other means. Why are some people so paranoid about the mnen- tion of files and so on? In the case of ordinary citizens there should be great aiarm and something done to remedy the situation. But are these or- dinary people? To be on a police file there must or shouid be a reason. MoÃt often there is. I can weli understand why at times and for good reason medicai files and revenue files are needed to fi in the picture. So the line is fine, where is it drawn and this 1 think is where the paranoia sets in. I rented an apartment in a police state oncevwhen -travelling abroad. There is terror associated with this and a great awareness set in; it is not a hidden thing. Tis, 0f course, is an internai thing and bas nothing to do with security as such. A country without a good security agency in regard to outward influence for want of a better word would soon fail by the wayside in more ways than one. It is weli known that every country in the worid bas its own agency for security and undercover sur- veillà nce, to name a couple, the CI.A. in the States and the K.G.B. in Russia. It therefore becomes a necessity to bave similar agencies established to for all wehbear and read, alweiland good. If this is part of an undermining we bad better thlnk twloe. If we doubt ami mistriat aur security fores we must be sure why. It's somethig to thlnk about. Bell 1