Reid Morden spy agency boss when Air India Flight 182 tapes destroyed

CFP ^ | May 12, 2005 | Judi McLeod

[MikeEdwards]

Reid Morden, the Canadian spy working with Paul Volcker on the independent UN inquiry into the oil-for-food scandal, is the CEO who was at the helm of the Canadian Security Investigation Services (CSIS) when most of the 300 tapes and wiretaps, collected both before and after the 1985 crash of Air India Flight 182, were destroyed.

Some feel that the destroyed tapes and wiretaps were crucial evidence that could have led to a guilty charge in the trial of the accused on the crash of Flight 182.

CSIS, Canada’s top spy agency, has always maintained that the destroyed tapes had no value, while the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) were said to have seethed.

The destroyed, could-be crucial evidence is not Morden’s only tie to Flight 182.

Morden is chair of Trent University’s board of governors. Morden worked closely with Bob Rae, former Socialist Premier of Ontario on major fundraising efforts for Trent’s building campaigns. Rae, who appointed UN Secretary General Kofi Annan special advisor Maurice Strong as Chairman of Ontario Hydro, was recently handpicked by Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan to consider whether Ottawa should call a public inquiry over the Air India investigation and prosecution.

Flight 182, a Boeing 747 aircraft, blew up at an altitude of 31,000 ft. over the southwest tip of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard on June 23, 1985. Some 60 children, under age 10, perished in the crash.

Waiting for a justice that never came, relatives of the 329 people killed in the crash followed the trial of the accused for 20 years only to hear of their final acquittal on March 16, 2005. . . . .

[Cicero]

Maurice Strong needs to be subjected to investigation.

[MikeEdwards]

Hopefully "subjected to investigation" outside of Canada or any other jurisdiction that does not support the death penalty!