A secret spy service file on Pierre Trudeau came close to eluding destruction 30 years ago, newly disclosed memos reveal. However, a late October 1988 recommendation that the dossier on the former prime minister be preserved for at least another decade was nixed just days later, sealing its fate. The Canadian Press reported last month that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service scrapped the Cold War file on Trudeau in 1989 instead of sending it to the national archives. The Trudeau dossier was among hundreds of thousands of files on a wide array of groups and individuals the newly formed CSIS inherited in the 1980s after the RCMP Security Service was disbanded following a series of scandals.
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Secret Trudeau file almost spared
The Canadian Press
Published Wednesday, July 24, 2019 5:48AM EDT
Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau sits next to Queen Elizabeth II (not shown) at the official state dinner in Edmonton, Alta., Aug. 5, 1978. (Rod MacIvor / THE CANADIAN PRESS)