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Declassified RCMP files reveal police spied on Royal Canadian Legion members suspected of communism

Canada’s national police force secretly monitored military veterans across the country in the years following the Second World War, searching for suspected communists within the Royal Canadian Legion, newly declassified documents reveal.

Confidential RCMP records from 1946 and 1947 show the Mounties investigated Legion branches nationwide, compiled names of suspected communist sympathizers and monitored the political activities of veterans.

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