https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/40c6ffd39c4ddf708e94d12d343d92f7.pdf e52551deb39a09d41b0996ae6a8ed5e6 PDF Text Text r- -----------------------.---_ I • o=-o-cu-m-en-t d-::-is--:c/o-se-d,--un-d,--er--:th_e_--:-Ac--:ce--:ss-to--:ln--=10 ~"A,'";;;":lt:'!lfk'~ lmfo,moho, ., DUPLICATE' C ~t •• .C- " , OTT.A WA ..F-I LE .- • ·No: . .. . . ?/ . ;-.. • Letter No.. ; ... .. ........ · /o~)J/w\\ ... J .. .-._.. I.•..• - : ·.~ •.•.•• •. . . --~.: .. ,.;·.. • • SECURITY CL.A'SSIF[CATION •.•. SECRET ____ FROM: _THE.CANADIAN -A~BASSADOR~: .B_ONN,G~RMA~Y TO: THE UNDER:.:SECRE.TARY OF STATE·FoR·EXTERl\lAL CANADA. .. --. . . .. . . ·. AFFAIRS; . . . ,Refe~ence •• ••• -Y~r Subject: ••••• • ' ;L-et~er ·N-o.··'f!J~·79? · 0£· ·Bece~ber··24;,:_. :1:9·5-2• • •~:-• · •• ._•• : .·:·: ;_. --secuTity- ·J\rra~gement·s ·.±n· ·Be-rl±n·.· ... '.'.. ·_:--~;•• ! ••• -:_.•.•••• : • ~. •••. ••• _ T_hank you for restoring cypher communications with ~e.rlin. The "technical" compromise of cypher • • materia_l at that post, bec~use it has. remaine!i. technical and· therefore no irreparab_lE'! damage has been ._done will have had a useful effect. • :rt will have clarified the • whole qu_estion of security °£pr us, and will permit others to profit fr.om t_his experience through the Circular. -Document which you will be issuing·. • Copies Ref~rred -•To........ .-.:_-,.·. •.. •...... •.... ...• .. . .. :' • • • • • • • • • ' • • • . • •• • • ,i ...... •............. . ....•-........... .. ....• ....... •...... . ~o. of Enclosures •••• 0 ! ••••••••• -•. • •• 2. - The security"' report . on .Ber'lin- which you have requested,to· the preparation ·of which Victor Moore has . already contributed when he ~as last in Berlin; will . • _permit you to_ gauge accurate_ly th~ situation _there and · -· propose remedies, if reqµir_ed., .J .- · . - It -may e·ven call for a _review. hy National Defence of the degree of security bf th~ containers to be provided to its officers, in view of the amount pf high security material which they handle,·- and particularly the officer at Berlin. • 4._ - --·As· regards the. channel of ·communications in Berlin,. _I. may -say that your surprise on this score has , often be·en ours in· receiving communications from Ottawa• The vagaries ·or the Department in addressing correspom;ience •to me in Berli~·, when the file and- subject are .-.·,a Bonn concern and vice versa have been ascribed to a .·_failure in registry to visualize the ·situation, geographi~ • cal and j:urj,,sdi_ctional, in Germany •. 5. . . I am Head of both.the Berl.in an<;l the Bonn missions, ~nd both.are in.Germany - even though my acqreditation is different in both places, here to the Federal G9 rman Government, in ·Berlin to th.e Control _ ·Councilw • ·· . . ' Post_.Filti' • . _1.,,,.10~1 No.. •...... : ....... . ., .. ; i .. 6 , ·-, Because,: even thqugh I may not be often i.n - Berlin, Berlin 'is neverthel~ss in the same country, ·1 • keep a. closer supervision oyer·Berlin than if mine were • - a dual .accreditation to two different_ ·countries. The more s6 _as tne External Affairs·officer in Berlin .is a -junior vi ~~-consul ( seconded to our· Pepartment from the • Army). • Th~-_army ·officer in· Berlin,_ previously C6lonel Houghton, now- Colonel Larocque, is· .only a member of the military· mission·and the•military member thereof. I -understand fr.om Colonel H0 ughton --that :_thE:?remus~ be some corresporidence·::with the -COS in your files,in. which the . CGS ..stressed that·-the military member co:uld not_· be th~ .•De_puty Head_ o_f the. mi\ssion as he: could not assume any of 000680 • �D6cumeht disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de lo Loi sur /'occes a /'information ,,. ,, ... l ·"-... the responsibilitie·s which would ..derive from such a title. 'Arthur Andrew, who, when he was at your end fought to make the military member the senior and responsible member ofl the mission in my absence, confirms this. Hence., as you will ·be. able to see from a review of your files, the military member has never handled correspondence with our Department. • 7.. Although I did not consider this arrangement the best jurisdictionally, there was i11 practice no real difficulty, as the relations have been cordial between . the two officers at Berlin (in fact it was in the military member's filing pabinet and therefore with his knowledge and .consent that the cyphe:r:-material was technically cozripromised t),. and no two post,s have as close facilities for communication ( by bag, by telegraph and by telephone) as have Bonn and Berlin, besides the regular visits which are' made there by :myself and officers on .my staff at Bonn. I fu,lly agree that t.his is not a fully satisfactory situation. The best solution for the purpose of reporting (My Despatch N0. ~6L of 10th January/53) .as· well as of admi·nistration would be to have an Ext.ernal Affairs officer in Berlin permanently •. If that ca,nnot be provided, and I have understood it cannot, you may wish to take up with National Defence again the question of their representative assuming,,, in my physical absence· from Berlin, responsibility for the over-all direction of that mission. This might not ·be as fully satisfactory administratively, it would . disrupt the present clear distinction of functions and bring an Army officer _out of his regular Military Attache ~ole, but it would meet the point over which you have expressed concern. B. T.C.Davis Ambassador. 000681 -1 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CDBC00343 Title A name given to the resource "Security Arrangements in Berlin," Bonn to SSEA, despatch no. 21 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10-Jan-53 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "BERLIN. Political Situation. Relations between West and East Berlin," RG25-A-3-c, Volume 8506, File number: 10937-40, File part: 2.2, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource LAC ATIP A-2024-01457 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Canadian Crown Subject The topic of the resource Berlin Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canada Declassified Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English