CSIS snitch may have to testify
 

Sept 15, 2004

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Zundel subpoenas former CSIS operative

Defence wants to probe allegations agency knew Holocaust denier was target of plot

By KIRK MAKIN JUSTICE REPORTER

Wednesday, Sep 15, 2004 Globe and Mail

It isn't often that the accused catches the cop, but Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel managed the feat yesterday.

After a three-month legal chase, Mr. Zundel finally cornered an elusive ex-security services agent -- John Farrell -- long enough to subpoena him to Mr. Zundel's deportation hearing.

Mr. Zundel and his defence team believe the former Canadian Security Intelligence Service agent has vital information about a purported CSIS campaign against Mr. Zundel. They intend to question him about allegations that CSIS was aware that Mr. Zundel was the target of a bomb plot in the 1980s, but that the agency purposely failed to warn him.

However, first, they had to get close enough to Mr. Farrell to serve a subpoena.

At the height of their cat-and-mouse game last spring, a principal at a Toronto elementary school where Mr. Farrell now teaches allegedly grabbed defence lawyer Peter Lindsay in a bear hug as Mr. Farrell disappeared out a side door.

According to court documents, the Toronto Catholic District School Board later supplied a phone number and address for Mr. Farrell. However, the phone number was out of service and the address turned out to be a strip mall.

In late July, Mr. Justice Pierre Blais of the Federal Court of Canada issued a special "order for substitute service," permitting the school board itself to serve the subpoena on Mr. Farrell. When he showed up last week, it did so.

Judge Blais was taking no chances yesterday when Mr. Farrell appeared in court. After asking the ex-agent to identify himself, Judge Blais said: "The order of this court is that you shall stay until the disposition [of the legal motion to compel him to testify]."

The government is seeking to deport Mr. Zundel using a rarely used security certificate. It alleges that his Holocaust-denial activities in the past 30 years have inspired violent terrorists. Under the legal procedure, details of the CSIS allegations are withheld from Mr. Zundel's defence team.

In an attempt to batter CSIS's credibility, Mr. Lindsay has made much of a recent exposé of the agency -- Covert Entry -- written by journalist Andrew Mitrovica. In writing his book, Mr. Mitrovica relied heavily on information from Mr. Farrell.

The book includes passages that describe a powerful pipe bomb delivered to Mr. Zundel during a period when CSIS was methodically intercepting his mail. Suspicious, Mr. Zundel took it to the police, who detonated the explosive and reported that it could easily have killed him.

"Farrell is convinced that the package containing the pipe bomb delivered to Zundel's home was intercepted either by himself or Pilotte [another agent]," the book said. "This raises the possibility that the intelligence service was aware of the package's potentially lethal cargo before Zundel received it."

Mr. Farrell's lawyer -- John Norris -- argued yesterday that his client should not be compelled to testify because he has no "material" evidence to contribute to the hearing. Mr. Norris said any conclusions drawn in the excerpt are those of Mr. Mitrovica, not Mr. Farrell.

However, Judge Blais was cool to his arguments. Not only is the pipe-bomb issue material to the case, he said, but it is a very grave allegation that needs to be illuminated.

Judge Blais also gave short shrift to Mr. Norris's concerns about Mr. Farrell being forced to incriminate himself or break the Canada Evidence Act by revealing classified information. Mr. Farrell "opened the barn door" by collaborating with Mr. Mitrovica, Judge Blais observed.

Arguments over whether to quash Mr. Farrell's subpoena continue tomorrow.

( Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040915/ZUND EL15/TPNational/Canada )

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