The Globe and Mail - CSIS mole defends work with white supremacists

Grant Bristow, who infiltrated the white supremacist movement as a paid informant for Canada's spy service, has broken his long silence, saying he took on the unsavoury task because it was "the right thing to do." Mr. Bristow's comments mark the first time he has publicly discussed his controversial role as an undercover operative for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service since being exposed in the press 10 years ago (...) His chance meeting with a member of the extreme right eventually led to Mr. Bristow's central role in Operation Governor, a CSIS investigation of the white supremacist movement. The racist right had been invigorated by the April, 1989, deportation to Canada of white supremacist Wolfgang Droege, fresh from a U.S. prison sentence for cocaine trafficking and weapon possession. In October of that year, Mr. Droege set up the Heritage Front, a continental network of racists. Mr. Bristow lived a schizophrenic existence, working by day as an investigator for a shipping firm and spending evenings and weekends nurturing his ties to the racist right, the article says. "I was keeping watch over violent hate groups," he said. "It was the right thing to do." The operation grew troubling when tensions erupted between the white supremacists and anti-racist groups.