Archive for September, 2007

Welcome! And how to subscribe …

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Greetings! Welcome to the website for Major General Val Pattee, author of The Onion Files [ISBN 978-1-897435-05-2], published by Agio Publishing House of Victoria, BC.

Val Pattee is a retired Canadian major general who became Chief of Intelligence for NATO [the North Atlantic Treaty Organization] in Europe and for Canada. In that role, Pattee had unprecedented access to the most secret intelligence of sixteen nations as the Cold War drew to a close. He also met with the GRU [Russian Military Intelligence] in Moscow and with the People’s Liberation Army in Beijing. Pattee worked in Paris at the height of the Action Direct terrorism and in the bunker near Bonn while the Red Army Faction was creating havoc across Europe.

On retirement from the military, Pattee became the senior official for policing for a Canadian province.

The author and his wife Joan reside in Victoria, BC, and winter in Mexico where Pattee is writing other novels in this series of spy thrillers.

Major General Pattee is available to comment on current and past intelligence issues and events. Journalist may contact him directly at vpattee [at] shaw [dot] ca, or through his publisher at info@agiopublishing.com.

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Advance praise from two foreign policy experts

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Here are comments just in from two people who have read the advance reading copy version of The Onion Files by Val Pattee:

“Osama is alive and well in this fast paced thriller about the next major terrorist attack in North America. The destruction of their targets of choice would be much more devastating than the loss of the Twin Towers on 9/11. The author’s background makes his descriptions of events all the more credible. Val Pattee retired as a major-general having spent the majority of the time following his fighter pilot career in the highest levels of the intelligence world during the Cold War. One can’t help but think that some of his “imaginary” crises are based on similar events from his past. A chilling thought.”

– Lewis W. MacKenzie, CM, OOnt, MSC and Bar, CD, Major-General (ret’d)

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“Val Pattee brings a lifetime of real world experience to writing this page turner. The Onion Files has an intricate, compelling and credible plot. One wonders how close to the brink we really are.”

– Gordon Smith, former Canadian Deputy Foreign Minister