December 21 Montréal A coroner's […]
When
1981-12-21
Description
December 21 Montréal A coroner's inquest began to probe " Operation Rockbottom," in which retired diplomat John Watkins died of a heart attack during RCMP interrogation in 1964. Watkins, Canada's ambassador to the U.S.S.R. from 1954 to 1956, had been identified as a homosexual.
All Places
Russia; Soviet UnionCanadaMontrealAll People
John WatkinsAll Organizations
Dominion Police, North-West Mounted Police, Royal Northwest Mounted Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMPAll Monograph
Operation RockbottomAll Citations
Donald W. McLeod, Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1964–1975 (Toronto: ECW Press/Homewood Books, 1996), pp. 12–13.B.L. (Bill Loos), "Cause of Death Due to: 'Sudden': The Unexplained Demise of Diplomat John Watkins," Body Politic, no. 77 (1981), p. 9"John Watkins: Dead at "Rockbottom," Body Politic, no. 81 (1982), p. 14
