Incident Date:
November 02, 1964 18:00
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Montreal, Quebec Canada
Perpetrators: Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ)
Event Type: Facility/Infrastructure Attack
Weapon Type(s): Sabotage Equipment
Organization Type: Separatist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Telecommunication(Radio)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "11/02/1964: Shortly after 6 p.m. one of four transmission towers of the English-language radio and TV station CFCF at Caughnawaga fell after one of the three sets of guy wires supporting it was snipped with bolt cutters. Its value was estimated at $80,000. A piece of soapbox with the letters ""FLQ"" (Front de Liberation du Quebec) written on it by ballpoint pen was found near the fallen 400-foot tower. In the space of ten months three such incidents occurred south of Montreal."
References: 1) "Kellett, A., Beanlands, B., Deacon, J., Jeffrey, H., & Lapalme, C. (1991). Terrorism in Canada 1960-1989, User Report no. 1990-16. Ottawa: Solicitor General Canada, National Security Coordination Centre, Police and Security Branch. p. 359."
2) "Ross, Jeffrey I. (1992). ATIC IV: Chronology of Domestic and International Terrorist Events in Canada, 1960-1990. Montreal, Qc: International Centre for Comparative Criminology. p. 29"
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