Michel Drapeau, former director-general of DND's Executive Secretariat, says in 34 years in the military he's never seen anything like this. The letter is also an indictment against the soldiers of his platoon. It is simply astonishing that the Provost Marshal would make such allegations in a letter while a criminal investigation is under way in what's a case of attempted murder. It is so totally ludicrous that I decided to go public. One would think they'd have been contacted before telling Stopford his men had tried to poison him.
Gasoline floats on water.
Stopford commanded a platoon of the Princess Pats in Croatia involved with filling sandbags with possibly PCB-contaminated bauxite. Eric Smith to this effect was mysteriously removed from files. I checked with my platoon and they'd all signed the memo, which had disappeared from their files. So I made photocopies and gave them to the soldiers, and told them to hold on to them and not put them in their files. Ironically, he saved lives rather than put troops at greater risk.