CDFB00265. 23 November 1977. Transcript of an Interview with Leslie James Bennett, conducted by Barbara Frum and Allen Maitland.

Leslie James Bennett, former Superintendent of Counter-Intelligence for the RCMP, was interviewed remotely from Australia by Barbara Frum and Allen Maitland, for the CBC program, As It Happens. Bennett was previously alleged to be a KGB agent, which prompted his retirement from the Counter-Intelligence Service in 1972. However, the release of Ian Adams' book, S - Portrait of a Spy, and MP Cossitt's public questioning of the Feather Bed file reignited rumors.

In the interview, Bennett described how one of the main objectives of the RIS is to "create the greatest destruction possible between member nations of the Social Democratic countries" to the point of immobilization, and claimed to be a victim of a Soviet smear campaign to achieve that objective. However, he was unable to comment on Featherbed and its relation to Soviet espionage. Regarding the public suspicions towards the RCMP's motives and operations, Bennett did not deny that the RCMP was "running a little secret society" by not "telling their political bosses as much as they could."