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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Congratulations to you, Val, on the upcoming launch of your first book in this series of spy thrillers. The early review comments have been exceptional — all very enthusiastic about the quality of writing and the realism. That realism should come as no surprise since you were the top spymaster for NATO and for Canada for many years. It is a delight to be able to read about the techniques that were used during the Cold War, and about the type of analyses that are performed on all the intelligence being gathered.