As a Communist Party member in Calgary in the early 1940s, Frank Hadesbeck performed clerical work at the party office, printed leaflets and sold books.
But he also had tasks his party comrades could know nothing about: snooping on mail, copying phone numbers from scratch pads and rummaging through waste baskets.
Hadesbeck, known to his RCMP handlers as agent 810, would pass along any information he could glean to the national police force.
If these events were current Trudeau would have him arrested and his bank accounts frozen.
