Fall 1984 Bombing Plot of Air India Flight 182.

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   In the fall of 1984, at least two informers reported to authorities of first abortive plot to bomb Air India 182 which flew out of Montreal at that time. In August 1984, known criminal Gerry Boudreault claimed Talwinder Parmar showed him with a suitcase stuffed with $200,000 to plant a bomb, but but decided "I had done some bad things in my time, done my time in jail, but putting a bomb on a plan not me. I went to the police." In September, Harmail Singh Grewal of Vancouver told CSIS and the RCMP of the same plot to bomb the flight out of Montreal to bargain down his sentence on theft and fraud. Both reports were dismissed as unreliable. On March 5, 1985, Canada's CSIS domestic intelligence agency got a court order to place Parmar under surveillance for one year, just 3 months before the bombing. Although the Babbar Khalsa was not yet officially banned, the affidavit stated it "is a Sikh terrorist group now established in Canada", "has claimed responsibility for more than forty assasinations of moderate Sikhs and other persons in the Punjab" and "penned its nameto threatening letters to high officials in India". It noted that in Calgary, Alberta on July 15, 1984, Parmar urged the Coach Temple congregation to "unite, fight and kill" to avenge the attack on the Golden Temple.

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