How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement – CBC Investigates

Mar 24, 2026

Secret files reveal Mounties penetrated Assembly of First Nations’ predecessor, spied on Indigenous leaders

The Mounties called it the “Native extremism program.” Today, it sounds like a spy novel.

Intelligence dossiers stuffed with documents. Wiretaps. Paid informants. Covert operatives with code numbers like “A-828.” A Red Power dissident photo album. Surreptitious surveillance at homes, offices, airports and bars.

But it wasn’t fiction.

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