RCMP informant's decades of spying chronicled

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RCMP informant's decades of spying on social reformers are chronicled in new book

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Frank Hadesbeck , known to his RCMP handlers as agent 810 , would pass along any information he could glean to the national police force.

Hadesbeck 's lengthy tenure as a paid informant for the Mounties ’ security branch is chronicled in “A Communist for the RCMP ” by Dennis Gruending , a former New Democrat MP.

In 1976 , Hadesbeck was told his career as an informant was over.

Hadesbeck supplied information to the RCMP until 1977 , and occasionally for a few more years .

He was handed 15 $ 100 bills as a parting bonus when he left the force.

The informant died in 2006 , shortly after turning 100 .

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