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Volume #18 - 758. | |
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CHAPTER VIII RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES | |
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PART
1 DEFENCE ISSUES | |
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SECTION
M PROJECT LINCOLN | |
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DEA/50286-40 |
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Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs to Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee | |
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CONFIDENTIAL |
Ottawa,
September 15th, 1952 |
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PROPOSED VISIT OF U.S. CIVILIAN SCIENTISTS TO RESOLUTE - | |
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During the past few weeks the Air Attaché of the U.S. Embassy has made approaches to the R.C.A.F. and through them to the Department of Transport, and more recently he has spoken to the Department of External Affairs, with a view to obtaining permission for three civilian scientists to go to Resolute in connection with "Project Lincoln" acoustic tests. It seems that further parties would follow. 2. This Department has no information regarding the nature of "Project Lincoln" and assumes that it is a new U.S. defence project which, under the rules adopted by the Governments of Canada and the United States, should be submitted to the Canadian Government for approval through the diplomatic channel. We so informed the Air Attaché on September 12 in response to his telephone inquiry. 3. We have been told informally that the R.C.A.F. has approved the visit of these scientists to R.C.A.F. Station Resolute Bay. We do not know whether the scientists will wish to use the facilities of the Weather Station or the Ionospheric Station at Resolute in addition to the facilities of the R.C.A.F. Station. 4. I should be grateful if you would let me know whether you agree that the appropriate procedure in this case would be for the U.S.A.F. to submit through the diplomatic channel, with suitable explanations and details, the request for permission to carry out at Resolute the test or series of tests with which the three scientists are connected. 5. I am sending copies of this letter for information to the Chief of the Air Staff, the Defence Research Board, the Deputy Minister of Transport and the Meteorological Division in Toronto. C.S.A. RITCHIE | |
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