Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ramp death squad threat claimed Ottawa up Leslie James Bennett a top ranking member of the ramp Security service who re tips under a Cloud in 1972, says he has been wanted that an ramp death squad will assassinate him if it is Ever Learned he was a Trai Tor. Bennett made the claim during an interview with the australian Broad casting commission. Bennett now 60, retired from the Security service in 1972 after being interrogated for four Days about his loyalty. Government sources said later there was no evidence he had been anything but a Loyal Public servant during his 18 years As a civilian member of the service. The Welsh born Bennett had run the ramp s russian intelligence desk for most of his years with the Force. He has lived in Perth austra Lia since 1974. In the interview Bennett claims that a former ramp colleague told him you realize that if at any stage the ramp find out that you have been a traitor that a special squad is to be set up to take care of that and 1 have been approached in that Bennett said he assured the officer that he was innocent and nobody could actually prove he said he believed the warning. Bennett blamed his Fate on a dead Erate Campaign by the soviet Kab to discredit him. He says the Campaign was con ducted through Kab defector Anatoly Glysten and caused chaos in Western Security forces ruining Bennett s career As Well As that of sir Roger Hollis of Britain s Mi-5. The Roger was described in a recent Book by British journalist Chapman Pincher As a soviet agent who was among the first to interview Igor Gou Zenka after the Cypher clerk defected from the soviet embassy Here in 1945. Bennett settled out of court for last december in a libel suit against Toronto novelist Ian Adams claiming that Adams had modelled the Central character in his novel s. Portrait of a spy after him. In effect branding him a double agent. Testifying during a discovery examination in Toronto Bennett con firmed that Many of the fictional cases in the Adams Book were based on real ones. Winnipeg free press wednesday june 11 ramp Greet 12% pay raise with dismay Adams sued for libel c Aii Uil photo copies 5 Mill National to cameras t Hill concourse store Portage s main 319 Donald St. Beside Capitol theatre 639 Portage ave. Sherbrook Ottawa up More than 13.000 ramp officers won pay increases of More than 12 per cent yesterday but were denied a major bar gaining goal in creases retroactive to Jan. 1 rather than april 1. The ramp is the Only major police Force in Canada whose pay increases do not Date from Jan. 1 and divisional representatives elected to present the rank and file position have been trying for several years to get the Federal Treasury Board to accept the change. Fringe benefits Are included in the package among them d recruits will reach the maximum Constable rate of in three years rather the Daie Carnegie course begins this week Yogi Isoif Nous ideas use ent Husum control won John m. Fisher 2000 attend the orientation meeting you re invited no Cost or obligation. Thursday june 4, 6-9 . Holiday inn downtown Kildonan room presented by John m. Fisher s Assoc. 889-4929 or if Busy 885-4499 _ say hello to a reformed i knew All about losing weight i had lost the same 24 pounds sever Al times. But i lost it for the last time at diet Center Maureen Hansen s Story is typical of thousands of men and women All across the . 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The Bonus for years of service will Rise to a month for each year served from recruits a recruit s salary rises to a year from maximum pay for a consta ble is a year up from corporals Rise to 003 from and sergeants to from 975. At the officer level an inspector s salary rises to from and a superintendent s to from More than uni formed officers Are affected including about consta Bles. In Prince George . Word of the contract was greeted by ramp officers Here with frustration anger and talk about forming a Union. Shafted we Are getting one Constable said yester Day. If the commissioner lets the government get away with this move he ought to one officer said re Ferring to the government s offer. We were promised a con tract from Jan. 1 and now we Are losing three months retroactive a staff ser Geant said. I can foresee an increase in said a senior officer. 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