OTTAWA—Canadian security agents were so busy looking for Communist infiltrators in the flowering women’s liberation movement, they all but missed a genuine social revolution that transformed millions of lives, says a newly published book. As a result, the Mounties saw the youth-fuelled causes of the New Left, including the women’s movement, through a “red-tinged prism,” the book argues. Sethna and Hewitt combed through thousands of pages of declassified intelligence files — many still heavily censored — to trace the RCMP interest in women’s causes. By the mid-1970s, the women’s movement began to transform the RCMP itself, as female members donned the red serge. The excesses of the RCMP security branch led to its dissolution and the birth in 1984 of the civilian Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

Source: thestar April 22, 2018 21:11 UTC