CIA welcomed Mulroney in wake of 'negative' Trudeau
government as a welcome alternative to the "gratuitous negative" attitude of the often prickly Pierre Trudeau, declassified documents show.
The CIA cautiously assessed the "Boy from Baie Comeau" as a more amiable ally than the occasionally irascible Trudeau in a September 1984 memo written three weeks after Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives swept to power, ousting the long-entrenched Liberals.
The intelligence agency did not expect a wholesale shift from Mulroney, but cautiously greeted his "conciliatory and constructive" approach.
On East-West trade, relations with the Communist world and U.S. involvement in Central America, the CIA believed the Tories would "steer a pragmatic course," supporting Washington when in Canada's interest and chastising it otherwise, says the memo.
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