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 . According to Nigel West Kourianov was suddenly recalled to the Soviet Union, suggesting a mole had tipped of 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.