Gilles G. Brunet

Sergeant Gilles G. Brunet was a career officer in Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

He was born on September 20, 1934, in Rimouski. Commenced Saint Aloysisus School. He also attended A school at Côtes des Neiges and St-Nicolas School in Montreal. He attended D'Arcy McGee High School. He left school in June 1951. In Ottawa he continued school at Grade 13th at Nepean High school.

In 1972 American suspicions had triggered one of Brunet's colleagues, Leslie James Bennett, to lose his security clearance, leading to his dismissal. A year after Brunet's death, a Soviet defector named Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko would clear Bennett, and assert that Brunet was the mole.

Brunet was the son of Josaphat Brunet, the first director of the RCMP Security Service.

According to The Fifth Estate, Gilles Brunet lived beyond his means, and made frequent trips to Mexico.

His father would rise to the rank of Deputy Commissioner.