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How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement

Coming this fall to CBC: Undercover Constable!

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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