A Canadian spy who cultivated Sikh informants after the 1985 Air India terrorist attack told an inquiry yesterday that the RCMP cost him his most promising source for identifying the bombers.
Neil Eshleman was a Canadian Security Intelligence Service agent in Vancouver when he met a nervous source identified yesterday as Mr. A, who he felt could help penetrate the Sikh extremist movement. The man wanted his anonymity guaranteed and said he would not testify in court.
But Mr. Eshleman said he was ordered to turn the source over to the RCMP, who insisted they needed to speak to the man directly and sent two officers, unannounced, to Mr. A’s home, where he lived with others. The Mounties concluded the man was of no help to their criminal investigation.
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