RCMP: Sartre

Canadian Security Intelligence Service Dept: The declassified RCMP dossier on Sartre also reveals that Mountie intelligence officers pored over translations of the French writer s pronouncements, monitored his links to the peace movement and noted the academic rebel s brushes with the law, according to The Star. Personal files compiled by the RCMP security branch, a forerunner of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, can be made public 20 years after a person s death. Portions of Sartre s file remain secret and oTTAWA Canadian spies closely eyed existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, tracking his planned trip to Quebec in support of people arrested during a crackdown on separatist threats, newly released documents show. The two-volume file, spanning 234 pages, was obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act from Library and Archives Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.