John Kennett Starnes

John Kennett Starnes ( born February 5, 1918 in Montreal, Quebec ) is a former Canadian ambassador.

Life

The parents of John Kennett Starnes were Altha Ella McCrea and Henry Kennett Starnes. John Kennett Starnes studied at the Trinity College School ( Port Hope, Canada), 1935-1936 on Silling Institute in Switzerland, in 1937 German at the Ludwig -Maximilians -Universität München language, the Colledge of Bishop's University in Quebec City in 1975. John Kennett Starnes married in 1941 Helen Gordon Robinson. Their children are John and Colin Patrick Barrlay. Starnes was used in World War II. From 1944 to 1970 at the Foreign Service of Canada. He was from 1962 to 1966 Ambassador to Germany when he was in Cairo in 1966 was ambassador, was the United Arab Republic. From 1962 to 1966 he was head of the Canadian military mission in Berlin. In 1966 he oversaw the withdrawal of the Canadian contingent of the United Nations Emergency Force, which had been stationed on the Suez crisis.

From 1970 to 1973 Starnes was the first civilian Director General of Security Department of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in relation to the rule of law were the subject of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP [ wp 1] an investigation. The test report Starnes consent for illegal, covert operations, the RCMP is detected. Starnes received by the Access to information Act ( Canadian equivalent of the Freedom of Information Act ), in January 1992 Cabinet minutes of October 1970. Protocols indicate that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police urged the government of Pierre Trudeau, had restrained the abduction James Richard Cross and Pierre Laporte by the front de react libération du Québec and not to take immediate emergency measures.

Publications

  • Deep Sleepers, 1981
  • Scarab, 1982
  • Orion's Belt, 1983
  • The Cornish Hug, 1985
  • Latonya, 1994

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References

  • Canadian Ambassador to Germany
  • Canadian
  • Born in 1918
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