March Toronto John Sawatsky's book […]

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1980-03

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March Toronto John Sawatsky's book Men in the Shadows: The RCMP Security Service, a study of the history, structure, and operation of the RCMP Security Service, was published by Doubleday Canada. Two chapters of the book detailed the Service's obsession with identifying and harassing gays, and discussed the notorious Fruit Machine, a failed programme to develop a device that could detect sexual orientation. Dozens of suspected homosexuals were fired from the Canadian federal civil service during the 1950s and 1960s by the Security Service as subversives or security risks simply because of their sexual orientation.

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Toronto

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John Sawatsky

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Canadian Federal Civil Service Doubleday Canada Dominion Police, North-West Mounted Police, Royal Northwest Mounted Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMP

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Men in the Shadows: The RCMP Security Service

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Lubor J. Zink, "Mountie Misdeeds Need Wider Context" (column), Toronto Sun, 26 March 1980, p. 11.Peter Worthington, "Books in Brief" (review), Toronto Sun, Sunday ed., 30 March 1980, p. S27 Geoffrey Stevens, "A Slippery Slope," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 8 April 1980, p. 6 Robert Sheppard, "RCMP's 'Fruit Machine' Failure as Homosexual Detector: Book," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 21 March 1980, p. 4 John Sawatsky, "Security Paranoia & the Fruit Machine," Body Politic, no. 63 (1980), pp. 21–23 Jeff Sallot, "Men in the Shadows" (review), Globe and Mail, weekend ed., 22 March 1980, p. E13 Douglas Sagi, "Facing Facts about Our Force's Failings" (review), Vancouver Sun, four star ed., 11 April 1980, p. 42L H.B. Pencil (pseud.), "Straightline" (review), BiLine (Vancouver), 2, no. 3 (1980): 17, 23 "The Oppression of Machinery" (editorial), Body Politic, no. 63 (1980), p. 8 Paul Hellyer, "Sophistication and Soap Opera," Toronto Sun, 23 March 1980, p. 8 J.L. Granatstein, "Men in the Shadows" (review), Quill & Quire, April 1980, p. 37 Charles Gordon, "Dirty Pictures, Dirty Tricks and the RCMP" (review), Maclean's, 24 March 1980, p. 55 David Garmaise, "RCMP Witch-hunt Revealed," GO Info, 7, no. 1 (April 1980): 8–9 Douglas Fisher, "Reporter's View of RCMP," Toronto Sun, 28 March 1980, p. 11 "Department of Missing Paragraphs," Toronto Sun, 20 March 1980, p. 6 Paul Copeland, "SS-CAN: A Moral Thriller" (review), Books in Canada, April 1980, pp. 22–23

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