November 20 Toronto The Toronto Sun […]
When
1977-11-20
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November 20 Toronto The Toronto Sun published an exposé of the RCMP's "Operation Featherbed," which had been established in about 1968 after a decade of other similar security investigations. It involved a special squad that investigated suspected homosexuals in the Canadian civil service and rooted out "security risks" in sensitive posts who could be blackmailed by Soviet or other foreign agents. The operation particularly focused on homosexuals in the Canadian Department of External Affairs.
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Dominion Police, North-West Mounted Police, Royal Northwest Mounted Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMPAll Periodicals
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John Sawatsky, Men in the Shadows: The RCMP Security Service (Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1980), pp. 124–40.Robert MacDonald, "Featherbed Full of Gays," Toronto Sun, 20 November 1977, p. 5Robert MacDonald, "Cossitt Wants Wraps off 'Explosive Topics,'" Toronto Sun, 22 November 1977, p. 5Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile, The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010), pp . 18–19, 78–79, 81–83, 92–97, 131–44, 146–47
