Incident Date:
July 19, 1966
Incident Successful:
Location: Magog, Quebec Canada
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Threat
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Unknown Explosive Type)
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: Yes
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Business(Industrial/Textiles/Factories)
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: "07/19/1966: A woman made an anonymous phone call to police warning that a 600,000 gallon oil storage tank at the strikebound Dominion Textiles plant in Magog would be blown up. No bomb was found, and a police guard was posted. The threat came only 36 hours after bombs exploded on 17 July at the residences of two Dominion Textiles supervisory employees. On 14 July a Front de Liberation du Quebec member was killed while attempting to place a bomb at the Dominion Textiles Saint-Henri plant."
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. 366."
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