CDFB00241. 16 November 1977. Aide Memoire.
A second aide memoire concerning Featherbed dated 16 November 1977 differed from the one presented to the Solicitor General and Prime Minister. It defined Featherbed as "a concept formed in June 1968 […] in relation to activities of hostile intelligence services against Canada." An annotation dated 21 November 1977 noted this was a reasonably accurate description of Featherbed, the concept. However, it was not true for Feather Bed, the file, which was more of a repository for general information and to record enquiries or publicity about the file. The aide memoire also noted difficulties in unearthing the type of collateral material typically needed to identify cryptonyms and thus foreign agents. This plagued Feather Bed's progress.