Mafia probe had eyes on Laporte

At the time of his kidnapping by the FLQ, Pierre Laporte was being monitored by the police as part of a probe into the Montreal Mafia that went as far as planting a microphone in his coffin after his murder, according to stunning revelations by a retired Sûreté du Québec wiretapping expert.

Claude Lavallée, who pioneered wiretapping techniques in Quebec in the late 1960s, said in a book to be released Wednesday that the murder of the Liberal minister in October 1970 by the Front de Libération du Québec put an end to the investigation.

The author even claims that wiretaps caught a leading organized crime figure offering the Mafia’s help in finding Mr. Laporte before he was killed.

In his book Révélations d’un espion de la SQ (Revelations of an SQ Spy), Mr. Lavallée explained how his surveillance team, which was set up to gather information on organized crime, stumbled on the Mafia’s interest in infiltrating the highest spheres of the political leadership.
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