Front Man
Grant Bristow kept silent for almost ten years about his controversial work as a CSIS spy in Canada’s neo-Nazi movement. Now, finally, he’s ready to tell his side of the story
October 31, 2019 - by Andrew MitrovicaAndrew Mitrovica Updated 13:49, Oct. 31, 2019 | Published 4:22, Sep. 12, 2004This article was published over a year ago. Some information may no longer be current.
THE INSTANT Grant Bristow answered the telephone on Friday morning, August 12, 1994, the new, sedate life he had built in a bland Toronto suburb for himself, his wife, and son began to unravel. For six years, Bristow had inhabited the perilous universe of white supremacists as a mole for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (csis).
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i have given up information on other crimes. i ve not held back. i renounced publicly through doing interviews like this. i have renounced with officers. i mean, to every extent, i ve ruined myself, i ve made it public knowledge. i made it to where everybody knows, i don t have a chance to go back to that lifestyle. i don t want to go back to that lifestyle. in fact, he even works with some organizations to combat racism. i m a source of information to the southern poverty law center, to one people s project, the anti-racist action. i ve done all i can to change myself as a person and not only to renounce and to become a hermit from that lifestyle but to actually take an opposition against it. but there was a price for coming clean. you re basically deemed a snitch, so that s why my custody is what it is. i mean, if i m ever put in general population, i m as good as dead. any prison gang would be happy to get their hands on shawn gaines.
i mean, to every extent, i ve ruined myself, i ve made it public knowledge. i made it to where everybody knows, i don t have a chance to go back to that lifestyle. i don t want to go back to that lifestyle. in fact, he even works with some organizations to combat racism. i m a source of information of the southern poverty law center, to one people s project, the anti-racist action. i ve done all i can to change myself as a person and not only to renounce and to become a hermit from that lifestyle but to actually take an opposition against it. but there was a price for coming clean. you re basically deemed a snitch, so that s why my custody is what it is. i mean, if i m ever put in general population, i m as good as dead. any prison gang would be happy to get their hands on shawn gaines. it s kill or be killed for me now, so i ll spend my time in protective custody, more than likely slammed down the entire time. while his public confession
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