Volume 1

Volume 1 covers Featherbed’s creation in 1958 and its early activities throughout the 1960s. Featherbed emerged as a direct response to the Soviet Union’s successes infiltrating the US government and fears that these successes might be repeated in Canada. Initially, Featherbed identified a series of suspected individuals and gathered information on their earlier political activities. Featherbed accordingly began by re-examining the existing files of Canadian high-level government employees in order to determine a list of individuals warranting closer investigation. In 1968, a specific Featherbed section was created, which assigned officers and allocated resources to uncover and neutralize any foreign agents within the Canadian government.

All of the documents in this section are from Volume 1, linked below.