Al Overfield

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Alan Overfield was born a

white supremacist
.

He was a founding member of the

Ontario Social Credit Party, which had been taken over by the Edmund Burke Society in the early 1970s.[1]

In 1973, after the Edmund Burke Society became the Western Guard Party, Overfield claims to have founded the Canadian Liberty League as an alternative to the Western Guard. Overfield later became a member of Don Andrew's Nationalist Party of Canada. It was through his involvement with Andrews that Overfield became acquainted with Wolfgang Droege whom Overfield employed as a part-time bailiff.[1]

The Reform Party of Canada

Overfield claims to have been out of politics for 15 years when he decided to become active again. When he joined the Reform Party of Canada, he claims to have "let the Reform Party executive know about his political past, and they had no problems with it."[1] Overfield stated that Reform Party member Harry Robertson admitted him to the Party and that future Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper was well aware of Overfield's past involvement in far right groups. Harper denied such knowledge and stated that he had been "building issues into the Reform Party's platform to actively discourage extremists and 'nut cases'" at the time of Overfield's membership.[1]

One claim for Overfield's involvement in the Reform Party was an attempt to discredit the party for

Metro Toronto. Even if they did not win the riding associations in an election, they would at least have control. The attraction of Reform for Overfield and like-minded persons, he said was that it was strictly white bread, 100 percent white Canadians, really anti-immigration; there was really no difference between those people and them (Overfield's group)."[1]

While he was a member of the Reform Party, Overfield claimed to have signed up 22 members, including Heritage Front members Peter Mitrevski, Nicola Polinuk, Droege, Zvominir Lelas and Tony Cinncinato.[1]

Security for the Reform Party

In the early 1990s when the Reform Party was making inroads into Ontario, there were concerns about groups that would try to disrupt Reform meetings. Also, Reform Party leader Preston Manning did not have Royal Canadian Mounted Police security and was instead dependent upon local organizations. On May 27, 1991, Andrew Flint, then the Ontario Regional Coordinator for the Reform Party, was approached by Overfield who offered his bailiff as Reform Party security. Among those who worked as security for the Reform Party were Wolfgang Droege, James Dawson, Peter Mitrevski, other Heritage Front members,[2][3][4] and Grant Bristow, who was later discovered to be a Canadian Security Intelligence Service mole.[5] Bristow became Manning's personal bodyguard while Overfield's men were providing security at Reform Party meetings and rallies.

Expulsion from the Reform Party

On February 28, 1992, the

neo-Nazis."[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Security Intelligence Review Committee (9 Dec 1994). "The Heritage Front Affair Report to the Solicitor General of Canada". The Nizkor Project. p. 7.3. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  2. ^ Security Intelligence Review Committee (9 Dec 1994). "The Heritage Front Affair Report to the Solicitor General of Canada". The Nizkor Project. p. 7.1. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  3. ^ Security Intelligence Review Committee (9 Dec 1994). "The Heritage Front Affair Report to the Solicitor General of Canada". The Nizkor Project. p. 7.2. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  4. ^ a b c d Security Intelligence Review Committee (9 Dec 1994). "The Heritage Front Affair Report to the Solicitor General of Canada". The Nizkor Project. p. 7.5. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  5. ^ "The story of the spy who duped white supremacists". Canadian Jewish News. Archived from the original on 7 October 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2015.

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