in his capacity as RCMP Commissioner, along with Director General of the RCMP's Security Service, John Starnes, had discussed with Cabinet Ministers and other senior Canadian Government officials the possibility of surveilling foreign agents via electronic eavesdropping, and of similar intelligence-gathering methods in the wake of the bombings during the FLQ crisis. Higgitt maintained that his "political masters" in Ottawa had given their implied consent to the use of wiretapping and other forms of electronic surveillance. Higgitt died in Ottawa on April 2, 1989 and was buried in the RCMP cemetery in Regina, Saskatchewan. References External links RCMP Museum -- Friendly Notes Vol.14, No.1, Winter 2004 Policing in Today's "Sophisticated" Society: An Address by Commissioner W. L. Higgitt, RCMP Interpol History 1917 births 1989 deaths Canadian civil servants Royal Canadian Mounted Police commissioners