Bower Featherstone

Bower Featherstone was a Canadian civil servant who was convicted of espionage in 1966.

Featherstone was a lithographer who worked for the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources.

A promising young officer in the RCMP Security Service, Gilles G. Brunet, played a significant role in his conviction, work for which he won a promotion.

His handler was Eugen Kourianov. According to Nigel West, Kourianov was suddenly recalled to the Soviet Union, suggesting a mole had tipped off the Soviets.

Decades later western intelligence learned that Brunet, the young officer who won promotion for his work in convicting Featherstone, had also been a mole.

The main document he was convicted of handing over to the Soviets was a confidential chart of two shipwrecks southeast of Newfoundland. Although he was convicted of violating Canada's Official Secrets Act none of the documents he passed on was actually secret.