John Kennett Starnes

John Kennett Starnes (born February 5, 1918 in Montreal , Québec , † December 23, 2014 ) was a Canadian ambassador .

Life

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

From 1970 to 1973, Starnes was the first civilian director general of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Security Division . The rule of law activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have been the subject of an investigation by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP . The investigation report found Starne's consent to illegal, covert operations by the RCMP. Starnes received under the Access to information Act (Canadian equivalent to the Freedom of Information Act ), in January 1992 cabinet minutes of October 1970. The protocols indicate that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had urged the government of Pierre Trudeau to be more cautious To respond to kidnapping cases of James Richard Cross and Pierre Laporte by the Front de liberation du Québec and not to take emergency measures immediately.

Publications

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

predecessor	Office	successor
Thomas Archibald Stone	Canadian Chargé d'affaires in Athens February 1945 to September 1945	Léo Richer LaFlèche
Thomas Archibald Stone	Canadian Chargé d'Affaires in Belgrade February 1945 to September 1945	Joseph Jacques Janvier Émile Vaillancourt
Escott Graves Meredith Reid	Canadian Ambassador in Bonn November 22, 1957 to 1962	Richard Plant Bower
Egerton Herbert Norman (1956-committed suicide after repeated American allegations that he was a Soviet agent in April 1957) Joseph Marc Antoine Jean Chapdelaine	Canadian Chargé d'affaires in Cairo February 23, 1966 to June 6, 1966	Thomas Lemesurier Carter
Joseph Marc Antoine Jean Chapdelaine	Canadian Chargé d'Affaires in Karthum January 17, 1967 to October 2, 1967	Thomas Lemesurier Carter

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In Memory of John Kennett Starnes ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Royal Commission on Inquiry Into Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved August 21, 2016.
3. ↑ Brill Academic Publishers, The International year book and statesmen's who's who , Burke's Peerage Ltd., 1977, [1]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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8. ↑ Starnes, John Kennett: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.