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</div><div>Late cop alleges in shocking letter that the FBI and NYPD conspired to assassinate Malcolm X</div><div>
</div><div>Malcolm X’s daughter on her father’s legacy and the new series 'Who Killed Malcolm X?' pix]</div><div>
</div><div> Lauren Floyd and Daily Kos February 22, 2021</div><div>   </div><div>
</div><div>Civil rights activist Malcolm X died on Feb. 21, 1965, 56 years ago, and decades after his death an undercover cop still didn't feel safe to reveal details of the assassination plot that left the late spokesman for the Nation of Islam shot to death at 39-years-old inside Harlem's Audubon Ballroom. Raymond Wood alleged in a letter he ensured was read after his death that <b>both the FBI and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) conspired to assassinate Malcolm X, according to statements made during a news conference on Saturday. Reggie Wood, a relative of the late cop, read Raymond Wood's letter during that news conference and explained that it was written to his father.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"I participated in actions that in hindsight were deplorable and detrimental to the advancement of my own Black people," Raymond Wood reportedly wrote in the letter dated Jan. 25, 2011. "My actions on behalf of the New York City Police Department [BOSSI] were done under duress and fear that if I did not follow the orders of my handlers I could face detrimental consequences."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Raymond said in the letter that because his health was declining, he feared that the family of Thomas Johnson, one of the men wrongfully convicted of Malcolm X's murder, wouldn't be able to clear his name in the event of Raymond's death. Johnson died in 2009, Spectrum News reported. <b>Raymond said in the letter that he was hired on April 17, 1964 and assigned to the Bureau of Special Services and Investigations (BOSSI) unit. It was a team Raymond wrote he wasn't trained to join but the organization's purpose for him was "to infiltrate civil rights organizations" and "find evidence of criminal activity, so the FBI could discredit and arrest its leaders.</b>"</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"After witnesssing repeated brutality at the hands of my coworkers [Police], I tried to resign," Raymond wrote. "Instead I was threatened with arrest by pinning marijuana and alcohol trafficking charges on me if I did not follow through with the assignments."</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He said his handlers told him "to encourage leaders and members of civil rights groups to commit felonious acts." Those members included Walter Bowe and Khaleel Sayyed, members of Malcolm X's security detail who Raymond allegedly convinced to attempt a bombing of the Statue of Liberty. "On February 16, 1965 The Statue of Liberty plot was carried out and the men were arrested just days before the assassination of Malcolm," Raymond wrote. "At that time I was not aware that Malcolm X was the target." Raymond said in the letter that he was ordered to be in the Audubon Ballroom the day of Malcolm's death and witnesses saw him leaving the scene. "Thomas Johnson was later arrested and wrongfully convicted to protect my cover and the secrets of the FBI and NYPD," Raymond wrote. "I have placed my full confession into the care of my cousin Reginald Wood Jr.</span></div><div>
</div><div>"I have requested that this information be held until after I have passed away," Raymond added. "It is my hope, that this information is received with the understanding that I have carried these secrets with a heavy heart and remorsefully regret my participation in this matter."</div><div>
</div><div>Both civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Ilyasah Shabazz, Malcolm X's daughter, called for an investigation into the new evidence during the news conference. "Any evidence that provides greater insight into the truth behind that terrible tragedy should be thoroughly investigated," Shabazz said.</div><div>
</div><div><b>"Several months ago, the Manhattan District Attorney initiated a review of the investigation and prosecution that resulted in two convictions for the murder of Malcolm X,"</b> the NYPD said in a statement Spectrum News obtained. "The NYPD has provided all available records relevant to that case to the District Attorney. The Department remains committed to assist with that review in any way."</div><div>
</div><div>Reggie Wood said during the news conference that Raymond's letter helped him understand "the pain and guilt" Raymond felt. "I hope that this information helps the Shabazz family, excuse me, to more clearly understand what happened to their father on that horrible day," Reggie Wood said. "As a Black man, I am disgusted to know that what happened 60 years ago is still going on today. We are living under (former director of the FBI) J. Edgar Hoover's Jim Crow system of policing our Black and brown people."</div><div>
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Her performance in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Godard" title="Jean-Luc Godard" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jean-Luc Godard</a>'s 1960 film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathless(1960_film)" title="Breathless (1960 film)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><i>Breathless</i></a> immortalized her as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_icon" title="Pop icon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">icon</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_New_Wave" title="French New Wave" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">French New Wave cinema</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Seberg#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Seberg#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She appeared in 34 films in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood" title="Hollywood" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hollywood</a> and in Europe, including <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joan(1957_film)" title="Saint Joan (1957 film)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Saint Joan</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_Tristesse(film)" title="Bonjour Tristesse (film)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bonjour Tristesse</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith(film)" title="Lilith (film)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lilith</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared(film)" title="The Mouse That Roared (film)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Mouse That Roared</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_to_Moment" title="Moment to Moment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Moment to Moment</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fine_Madness" title="A Fine Madness" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">A Fine Madness</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_Your_Wagon(film)" title="Paint Your Wagon (film)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Paint Your Wagon</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport(1970_film)" title="Airport (1970 film)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Airport</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macho_Callahan" title="Macho Callahan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Macho Callahan</a></i>, and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_War_in_Naples" title="Gang War in Naples" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gang War in Naples</a></i>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She was also one of the best-known targets of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">FBI</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO" title="COINTELPRO" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">COINTELPRO</a> project.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Seberg#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Seberg#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> Her targeting was a well-documented retaliation for her support of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party" title="Black Panther Party" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Black Panther Party</a>in the 1960s.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seberg died at the age of 40 in Paris, with police ruling her death a probable suicide.<sup id="cite_ref-Coates-Smith_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Seberg#cite_note-Coates-Smith-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romain_Gary" title="Romain Gary" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Romain Gary</a>, Seberg's second husband, called a press conference shortly after her death where he publicly blamed the FBI's campaign against Seberg for her deteriorating mental health. Gary claimed that Seberg "became psychotic" after the media reported a false story that the FBI planted about her becoming pregnant with a Black Panther's child in 1970. Romain Gary stated that Seberg had repeatedly attempted suicide on the anniversary of the child's death, August 25.<sup id="cite_ref-lakeland_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Seberg#cite_note-lakeland-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">huge file, ward churchill AIM: Peltier

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The Untold American Story</font></h1><h3 style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Compilation by Paul Wolf with contributions from Robert Boyle, Bob Brown, Tom Burghardt, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill</span>, Kathleen Cleaver, Bruce Ellison,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Cynthia McKinney, </span>Nkechi Taifa, Laura Whitehorn, Nicholas Wilson, and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Howard Zinn.</span></font></h3><h3 style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Presented to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson at the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa by the members of the Congressional Black Caucus attending the conference: Donna Christianson, John Conyers, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Barbara Lee, Sheila Jackson Lee, Cynthia McKinney, and Diane Watson, September 1, 2001.</font></h3><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/FBI/COINTELPRO_Untold_Story.html
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The lack of supervision and oversight of their undercover police operations has led to more than a dozen <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Official_Inquiries&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Official Inquiries (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">official inquiries</a>, most of which are internal and confidential. 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A number of court cases have been initiated by<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Women%27s_Case&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Case (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">women</a> tricked into <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Sexual_Relations&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sexual Relations (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">intimate relationships</a> with undercover agents (and in a few cases having children by them. <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Hearings_in_Parliament&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hearings in Parliament (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Hearings in Parliament</a> have questioned the more extreme methods employed, such as the use of <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Use_of_Identities_of_Children&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Use of Identities of Children (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">death certificates of children</a> to provide a false identity for the spies involved; while using Parliamentary Privilege, Green MP Caroline Lucas has accused one spy of being an <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Agent_Provocateur&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Agent Provocateur (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">agent provocateur</a>, committing arson while an activist with the <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Animal_Liberation_Front&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Animal Liberation Front (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Animal Liberation Front</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Elsewhere another officer, <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Peter_Francis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter Francis (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Peter Francis</a>, came forward with details of how the undercover police were used to smear the<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Stephen_Lawrence&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stephen Lawrence (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Stephen Lawrence</a> family. It has become apparent that a culture of abuse grew up around the units involved in covert policing and how that intelligence was used. So much so, that a public inquiry was announced in 2014.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Category:Revolving_Door">http://powerbase.info/index.php/Category:Revolving_Door</a> eur</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/13/as_internal_docs_show_major_overreach"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/13/as_internal_docs_show_major_overreach</font></a></p><h1 class="pageTitle" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 28px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As Internal Docs Show Major Overreach, Why Is <span class="caps">FBI</span> Spying on Opponents of Keystone XL Pipeline?</font></h1><div><div id="content-item-summary" itemprop="description" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; clear: right; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>A new report confirms for the first time that the <span class="caps">FBI</span> spied on activists in Texas who tried to stop the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Documents from the <span class="caps">FBI</span> reveal it failed to get approval before it cultivated informants and opened its investigation, which was run from its Houston field office. The files document "substantial non-compliance" with Department of Justice rules. The Tar Sands Blockade</b> mentioned in that report was one of the main groups targeted by the <span class="caps">FBI</span>. Agents in Houston office also told TransCanada they would share "pertinent intelligence regarding any threats" to the company in advance of protests. We are joined by Adam Federman, contributing editor to Earth Island Journal and co-author of the new investigation published by The Guardian, "Revealed: <span class="caps">FBI</span> violated its own rules while spying on Keystone XL opponents." In February, he also revealed how the <span class="caps">FBI</span> has recently pursued environmental activists in Texas, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Washington and Idaho for "little more than taking photographs of oil and gas industry installations."</font></p></div><div id="story-body" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;"><div id="transcript" class="collapsed" style="margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; clear: right; line-height: 1.5em;"><h2 class="section-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 5px 10px 5px 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; overflow: auto; font-stretch: normal; text-transform: uppercase; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">TRANSCRIPT</font></h2><div id="story-rush-transcript" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.</font></p></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong><span class="caps">JUAN</span> GONZÁLEZ:</strong> A new <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/12/revealed-fbi-spied-keystone-xl-opponents" style="text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">report</a> confirms for the first time that the <span class="caps">FBI</span> spied on activists in Texas who tried to stop the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. The report is based on <span class="caps">FBI</span> documents obtained by <em>The Guardian</em> and the <em>Earth Island Journal</em>. The documents also reveal that the <span class="caps">FBI</span> failed to get approval before it cultivated informants and opened its investigation, which was run from its Houston field office. The files document, quote, "substantial non-compliance" with Department of Justice rules. Much of the FBI’s surveillance took place between November of 2012 and June 2014.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong><span class="caps">AMY</span> <span class="caps">GOODMAN</span>:</strong> The Tar Sands Blockade mentioned in the report was one of the main groups targeted by the <span class="caps">FBI</span>.<b> Agents in Houston also told TransCanada they would share, quote, "pertinent intelligence regarding any threats" to the company in advance of protests.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">For more, we are joined by Adam Federman, contributing editor to <em>Earth Island Journal</em>, co-author of this new <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/12/revealed-fbi-spied-keystone-xl-opponents" style="text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">investigation</a> that was published by <em>The Guardian</em>. It’s headlined "Revealed: <span class="caps">FBI</span> Violated Its Own Rules While Spying on Keystone XL Opponents." In February, he also revealed how the <span class="caps">FBI</span> has recently pursued environmental activists in Texas, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Washington and Idaho for, quote, "little more than taking photographs of oil and gas industry installations."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Adam Federman, thank you so much for joining us from Burlington, Vermont. Talk about this most recent exposé. How do you know the <span class="caps">FBI</span> was spying on those who are opposed to the Keystone XL?</font></p><div id="content-item" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: normal;"><div id="transcript" class="collapsed" style="margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; clear: right; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Adam Federman, thank you so much for joining us from Burlington, Vermont. Talk about this most recent exposé. How do you know the <span class="caps">FBI</span> was spying on those who are opposed to the Keystone XL?</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="caps">ADAM</span> <span class="caps">FEDERMAN</span>:</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Yeah, the recent investigation is based on more than 80 pages of documents that we obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. And the most striking thing about them is that they demonstrated for the first time that the </span><span class="caps" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FBI</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> opened an investigation into anti-Keystone pipeline campaigners in Texas in 2012, late 2012, and that investigation continued through 2013, despite the fact that it w</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">as opened without proper approval from within the <span class="caps">FBI</span>. And what’s interesting about them is that they show extensive interest in Tar Sands Blockade and activists organizing in Houston, particularly in, yeah, neighborhoods in East Houston, where tar sands oil would eventually end up at the refineries that are based there.</span></font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong><span class="caps">JUAN</span> GONZÁLEZ:</strong> And in terms of the most surprising revelations that you found in these documents, could you talk about that?</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong><span class="caps">ADAM</span> <span class="caps">FEDERMAN</span>:</strong> Yeah, there are several. I mean, the fact that the investigation was opened without proper approval is probably most noteworthy. The <span class="caps">FBI</span> requires approval from legal counsel and a senior agent for investigations that are described as sensitive, and those include investigations into political or religious organizations, media institutions, academic institutions, and basically they set a higher threshold for opening an investigation. So, the fact that the Houston domain failed to do that obviously violates agency protocol.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But I think, more broadly, the documents also sort of illuminate the FBI’s characterization of environmental organizations and activism in the country. You know, the sort of opening salvo in the investigation is a synopsis of what they call <b>environmental extremism,</b> and that sort of undergirds the entire investigation and has also—you know, we’ve seen the same sort of language used in other contexts, not just surrounding Keystone pipeline.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><span class="caps">AMY</span> <span class="caps">GOODMAN</span>:</strong> Adam, many of the—looking at the quotes in the <span class="caps">FBI</span> documents, they talk about, as you said, the environmental extremists and say, quote,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> "Many of these extremists believe the debates over pollution, protection of wildlife, safety, and property rights have been overshadowed by the promise of jobs and cheaper oil prices. The Keystone pipeline, as part of the oil and natural gas industry, is vital to the security and economy of the United States." Can you explain these documents?</span></font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><span class="caps">ADAM</span> <span class="caps">FEDERMAN</span>:</strong> Yeah, I mean, that quote is really quite amazing for a number of reasons. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mike German, a former <span class="caps">FBI</span> agent who’s now at the Brennan Center and who we worked with on this story, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">you know, said that that characterization would include just about anyone who watches the evening news. I mean, it’s such a broad brush to tar—to describe environmental activists as extremists simply for being concerned about things like pollution, wildlife and property rights.</span></font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>And then the <span class="caps">FBI</span> also goes on to claim that the Keystone pipeline is vital to the national security and economy of the United States,</b> which of course is highly controversial and contested. And as I’m sure your viewers know, the State Department is still deliberating over whether to approve the northern leg of the pipeline itself. So that question remains open; however, it seems that the <span class="caps">FBI</span> has taken it upon its own to suggest that the pipeline is crucial to U.S. national security and financial security.[note nun charged w/ nat sec crime sabotage? 100 yr old law, for cutting hole in nuke facillity fence b/c it let alqueda in ?!] she is 85 yo]</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><span class="caps">JUAN</span> GONZÁLEZ:</strong> I wanted to ask you about the 2010 intelligence bulletin from the <span class="caps">FBI</span> Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit that you obtained. It warned that, even though the industry had encountered only low-level vandalism and trespassing, recent "criminal incidents" suggested environmental extremism was on the rise. The<span class="caps">FBI</span> concluded, quote</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, "Environmental extremism will become a greater threat to the energy industry owing to our historical understanding that some environmental extremists have progressed from committing low-level crimes against targets to more significant crimes over time in an effort to further the environmental extremism cause."</span></font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><span class="caps">ADAM</span> <span class="caps">FEDERMAN</span>:</strong> Yeah, it’s a fascinating document. And the story behind how I obtained it is because of the fact that that</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> very document was used by the Pennsylvania Department of Homeland Security to justify surveillance of anti-fracking groups in the state.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> And it essentially captures the FBI’s thinking on, you know, the threat of environmental extremism to—specifically to the energy industry. And this is laid out, as you say, in 2010, so I think that this is sort of the foundation for the FBI’s approach to the environmental movement more broadly. And I think, with these more recent documents, we’re seeing that sort of carried out in real time. And we also know that the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <span class="caps">FBI</span> has had high-level meetings with TransCanada and that local and state law enforcement along the pipeline route and in Pennsylvania and elsewhere has actively investigated and spied on environmental activists of, you know, all stripes. And it’s quite systematic, and I do think that the <span class="caps">FBI</span> is in many ways leading the charge.</span></font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong><span class="caps">AMY</span> <span class="caps">GOODMAN</span>:</strong> You report the FBI’s monitoring of Tar Sands Blockade activists failed to follow proper protocols for more than eight months. I want to read the FBI’s response: quote, "While the <span class="caps">FBI</span> approval levels required by internal policy were not initially obtained, once discovered, corrective action was taken, non-compliance was remedied, and the oversight was properly reported through the FBI’s internal oversight mechanism." That’s what the <span class="caps">FBI</span> said, acknowledging they didn’t initially get approval. Adam, as we wrap up right now, if you can talk about what—the legality of what the <span class="caps">FBI</span> did, in what you released today in the <em>Earth Island Journal</em> and <em>The Guardian</em>, and also in your past reporting on <span class="caps">FBI</span> spying on activists?</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong><span class="caps">ADAM</span> <span class="caps">FEDERMAN</span>:</strong> Well, I think, unfortunately, it’s perhaps not the exception that the <span class="caps">FBI</span> has opened an investigation without proper approval. In 2011, the inspector general issued a report showing widespread cheating on a test that was designed to prevent this very kind of thing from happening. So it essentially demonstrates a lack of internal control. But more broadly speaking, the question that I think we need to be asking is whether the investigation, opened properly or not, should have been conducted to begin with. I mean, Tar Sands Blockade is committed to nonviolent civil disobedience. They’ve been very open and transparent about their activism and work. And I think the question is whether this investigation should have been opened to begin with, and, quite frankly, if the <span class="caps">FBI</span> is actively investigating other anti-Keystone pipeline activists or anti-fracking activists in other states.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong><span class="caps">AMY</span> <span class="caps">GOODMAN</span>:</strong> Adam Federman, we want to thank you for being with us, contributing editor to <em>Earth Island Journal</em>, where he covers the intersection between law enforcement and the environment. He co-authored the new <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/12/revealed-fbi-spied-keystone-xl-opponents" style="text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">investigation</a> published by <em>The Guardian</em>, "Revealed: <span class="caps">FBI</span> Violated Its Own Rules While Spying on Keystone XL Opponents." We’ll link to that story at democracynow.org. When we come back, it’s the 30th anniversary of the <span class="caps">MOVE</span> bombing, when the Philadelphia police bombed a neighborhood. Stay with us.</font></p><div id="transcript-expand-collapse" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">---</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">3/15</font></p><div class="print-content"><div id="node-1033850" class="node node-story view-mode-print clearfix" about="/fracking/inside-big-energys-alliance-intelligence-clamp-down-fracking-opponents" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" style="position: relative;"><div class="the_body body_environment clearfix"><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In August 2010, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit distributed <a href="http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/spring2015/assets/fbiBulletin.pdf" rel="shadowbox">an intelligence bulletin</a> <span class="print-footnote">[3]</span> to all field offices warning that environmental extremism would likely become an increasing threat to the energy industry</span>. The eight-page document argued that, even though the industry had encountered only low-level vandalism and trespassing, recent “criminal incidents” suggested that environmental extremism was on the rise. The FBI concluded: “Environmental extremism will become a greater threat to the energy industry owing to our historical understanding that some environmental extremists have progressed from committing low-level crimes against targets to more significant crimes over time in an effort to further the environmental extremism cause.”</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Not long after the bulletin was distributed, a private security firm providing intelligence reports to the Pennsylvania Department of Homeland Security cited the FBI document in order to justify the surveillance of anti-fracking groups.</span> The same security firm concluded that the “escalating conflict over natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania” could lead to an increase in “environmentalist activity or eco-terrorism.”</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Since the 2010 FBI assessment was written, the specter of environmental extremism has been trotted out by both law enforcement and energy-industry security teams to describe a wide variety of grassroots groups opposed to the continued extraction of fossil fuels. In 2011, the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP ) <a href="http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/spring2015/assets/RCMP.pdf" rel="shadowbox">published a report</a> <span class="print-footnote">[4]</span> titled, “Environmental Criminal Extremism and Canada’s Energy Sector.” </span>The RCMP warned that environmental extremism posed a “clear and present criminal threat” to the energy industry. While both the FBI and RCMP reports make an effort to distinguish between lawful protest and criminal activity, they often conflate the two – in the RCMP report the terms “violence” and “direct action” are used interchangeably – and suggest opposition to the energy industry will lead to extremism. (The FBI’s Counterterrorism Division declined to answer questions about the 2010 bulletin.)</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Yet even as the resistance to “extreme energy projects” has grown in size and scope, there is little evidence to support the breathless warnings about “eco-terrorism.” There has been no upward spiral in criminality among environmental activists. To the contrary, arson, property destruction, and other acts of violence most closely associated with the radical animal rights movement of the 1980s and 1990s have become all but nonexistent. According to figures compiled by the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) at the University of Maryland, there has been only a handful of incidents defined as eco-terrorism since 2010. In fact, between 2010 and 2013, the latest year for which the GTD has published figures, out of a total of 54 terror incidents in the United States, five were attributed to the Animal Liberation Front. The last recorded incident carried out by the Earth Liberation Front – the bulldozing of two radio transmission towers in Washington – was in 2009. Earth First! hasn’t appeared in the database since 1994.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Instead, environmentalists have largely relied on classic social change strategies such as choreographed nonviolent civil disobedience, carefully planned protests, and divestment from the fossil fuel industry. “Overall we’ve seen a decline in activity, in terms of violent criminal activity” among environmentalists, an FBI intelligence analyst told <cite>The Washington Post</cite> in 2012.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Nevertheless, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and many state law enforcement agencies continue to promote the idea that environmental extremism is on the rise. The oil and gas industry is spending more on security than it ever has. According to a 2013 report by Frost & Sullivan, a marketing research and consulting company, annual spending on global oil and gas infrastructure security is expected to top $30 billion in just a few years. (In comparison, $30 billion is roughly what South Korea spends on defense annually.) “Surveillance will continue to dominate the oil and gas infrastructure security market,” a summary of the report states.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">At the same time, numerous intelligence-sharing networks between the private sector and law enforcement have been established at every level of government, giving rise to an unprecedented energy-intelligence complex. They range from project-specific and regional networks like the Nebraska Information Analysis Center’s Keystone Pipeline Portal community and the Marcellus Shale Operators’ Crime Committee, to federal programs like the FBI’s Oil and Natural Gas Crime Issues Special Interest Group and the Department of Homeland Security’s Oil and Natural Gas Sector Coordinating Council. These public-private partnerships, coupled with a revolving door between intelligence agencies and the more lucrative energy industry, have created a new kind of foe for the environmental movement. The fossil fuel industry is now an economic behemoth firmly hitched to the national security state.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It is true that environmentalists pose a threat to the energy industry – just not in the way the FBI or RCMP believe. The threat to the industry is existential and economic, not extremist. If the movement to end our reliance on fossil fuels prevails, the oil and gas industry will lose trillions of dollars in forecast profits. According to an estimate by the <a href="http://www.carbontracker.org/" target="blank">Carbon Tracker Initiative</a> <span class="print-footnote">[5]</span>, if we hope to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, the energy sector would have to leave more than $20 trillion worth of fossil fuels in the ground. “The oil and gas industry is doing everything they can to ensure they’re in business for the next 30 to 50 years and doing so at a time when we should be, as a nation, collectively figuring out how to stop using those same fossil fuels over the next ten years,” says Wes Gillingham, program director of <a href="http://www.catskillmountainkeeper.org/" target="blank">Catskill Mountainkeeper</a> <span class="print-footnote">[6]</span>.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Conflict between fossil fuel interests and environmentalists is inevitable. But as the contest becomes ever more stark, there seems to be little effort to distinguish between lawful political activism and illegal activities. The fossil fuel industry’s reasonable concerns about the strength of its political opponents have morphed into a kind of paranoia, one that threatens to criminalize constitutionally protected dissent.</font></p><p class="dropcap" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In the years since the FBI and RCMP reports, unconventional oil and gas development has been met with sustained protest, from small scale tree sits and encampments to massive nationwide demonstrations. The opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline is only the most high-profile example of resistance to the fossil fuel industry. The term “Blockadia” has been used to describe the loose network of citizens seeking to disrupt the continued exploitation of fossil fuels. Tactics vary depending on the region and political backdrop, but the emphasis has been on nonviolent civil disobedience, legal action, and ballot measures to hamper pipeline projects, ban fracking, and prevent or slow down tar sands extraction. A handful of pipeline projects – including Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain and Williams Companies’ Constitution pipelines – have been stymied. In mid-December, after several years of intense organizing, lobbying, and direct action campaigns, New York became the first state with substantial shale gas reserves to ban fracking. Towns in Colorado, Texas, and Ohio have passed restrictions that limit oil and gas drilling.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Such successes have emboldened these groups and inspired action elsewhere. (Of course it should be noted that oil and gas development has hardly been halted; it continues apace throughout North America.) Rather than lead to an increase in criminal activity, as the FBI predicted, opposition to the oil and gas industry has, in some ways, become more mainstream. “Five years ago you would have never seen the faces of rural farmers and ranchers and tribal leaders on the front lines of climate actions,” says Jane Kleeb, director of <a href="http://boldnebraska.org/" target="blank">Bold Nebraska</a> <span class="print-footnote">[7]</span>, an environmental group opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline. “This unlikely Cowboy and Indian Alliance that is also working shoulder to shoulder with big green groups is changing the way America looks at the issue of land, water, and climate change.”</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But the new face of the environmental movement seems not to have registered with an industry intent on steamrolling its critics. In 2011, in comments that have been widely cited, a spokesman for <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Anadarko Petroleum described the anti-fracking movement as an “insurgency” and suggested that industry insiders download the US Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Manual as a guide to dealing with it</span>. Less well known is the fact that Anadarko has built up a team of former intelligence operatives to combat what it views as an insurrection. The company’s southwest regional security manager was an officer with the Drug Enforcement Administration, where he was involved in undercover work. Another Anadarko security manager, LC Wilson, was regional commander of the Texas Department of Public Safety from 2009 to 2011 and oversaw law enforcement statewide. Anadarko has also been involved in the creation of at least two Oilfield Crime Committees, one in Texas and one in Pennsylvania, both of which are headed by former law enforcement officials. The South Texas Oilfield Crime Committee and the Marcellus Shale Operators’ Crime Committee have gathered intelligence on environmental activists and routinely exchange information with law enforcement.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Anadarko is not alone. Most large energy companies have security teams run by former FBI, Secret Service, or law enforcement personnel.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The director of corporate security at Devon Energy, for example, was a special agent with the Secret Service for 14 years. Chevron’s chief security officer was the former head of the Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service. And BP’s head of Government and Political Affairs from 2007 to 2012 worked for MI6, Britain’s top spy agency.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In most cases these security teams have been deployed to manage crises overseas.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> In Indonesia, for example, ExxonMobil ran its own intelligence operations and consulted regularly with the country’s military leaders as it sought to protect its assets amid destabilizing political conditions. In 2012 <cite>The Guardian</cite> reported that Shell Oil maintained a 1,200-person police force plus a network of undercover informants in Nigeria and spent tens of millions of dollars on security in the region.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As shale oil and gas development has expanded in North America, the frontlines of the energy wars are no longer overseas, but rather in places like Nebraska, Texas, and Pennsylvania.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Range Resources, one of the largest drillers in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale, has admitted to hiring veterans of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with experience in psychological warfare – or Psyops – to engage with local communities.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Neither Anadarko nor ExxonMobil nor Range Resources responded to requests for comment.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Even as the energy industry has beefed up its own in-house intelligence operations, it has established increasingly close ties with law enforcement agencies. This is partly a result of the post-9/11 national security state and the premium placed on information sharing. The <b>Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (CIPAC), established by the Department of Homeland Security in 2006</b>, holds quarterly meetings to facilitate information sharing between the private sector and government agencies. (Meetings are exempt from the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which means there is no public oversight. Indeed, the Critical Infrastructure Information Act of 2002 stipulates that information voluntarily submitted by industry to the DHS or DOE is protected from public disclosure.) Within CIPAC there is an Oil and Natural Gas Sector Coordinating Council and an Energy Government Coordinating Council. According to minutes from an August 2013 CIPAC meeting, the DHS has been working to provide more security clearances to the energy industry. “Currently DHS is working to enhance policies to share more classified information both cyber and non-cyber related,” the document states. Anadarko, Kinder Morgan, ExxonMobil, and the American Petroleum Institute are frequent participants and sponsors of CIPAC meetings.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In addition to CIPAC there is a Homeland Security Information Sharing Network for the Oil and Gas Industry (HSIN-ONG), a web-based platform that allows companies to communicate with each other and with law enforcement. It also gives them access to Suspicious Activity Reports and other intelligence related information. Around the same time that the information-sharing network was being created, the Department of Justice launched its National Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative to “improve the sharing of suspicious activity reports among state, local, tribal, and federal law-enforcement organizations, as well as private sector entities.”</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Intelligence-sharing systems also have been developed at the state level. The Nebraska Information Analysis Center (one of more than 70 Homeland Security “fusion centers”) has its own network that focuses on “possible unlawful tactics and techniques of individuals/groups opposed to Keystone XL pipeline.”</span> According to documents obtained by <cite>Earth Island Journal</cite> through a public records request, oil infrastructure company TransCanada has its own page in the HSIN portal where suspicious activity reports can be posted. TransCanada representatives, FBI agents, county attorneys, local sheriffs, and the US assistant attorney general all have access to the Keystone pipeline network.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Despite the numerous federal, state, and regional information-sharing networks established during the past decade, the industry has been reluctant to participate in programs that might be subject to public oversight. Thus last summer the oil and gas industry announced the creation of its own information sharing and analysis center, or ISAC, which allows member companies to submit intelligence anonymously and is exempt from public disclosure.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The industry’s fear of transparency is part of a larger pattern. Oil and gas firms often express alarm about having their facilities photographed or filmed by citizen watchdogs, which can lead to official investigations. For example, in 2011 the Rocky Mountain Energy Security Group (yet another regional intelligence sharing network) issued a security report that described activists in Pavillion, Wyoming who had photographed a natural gas processing facility. The report, which was disseminated to law enforcement and security professionals in the industry, defined the behavior as “suspicious activity” and said that the information was being circulated in order to determine “whether the activity has any underlying criminal or terrorism nexus (or intent).”</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In recent years the FBI has pursued environmental activists in Texas, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho for little more than taking photographs of oil and gas industry installations.</span>In 2011, after receiving an anonymous tip, the FBI went after Texas activist Ben Kessler, a member of the direct action environmental group <a href="http://risingtidenorthamerica.org/" target="blank">Rising Tide North America</a> <span class="print-footnote">[8]</span>. In November 2013 and February 2014, a Pennsylvania state trooper and member of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force visited anti-fracking activists at their homes in New York and Pennsylvania under the pretext that they had trespassed while taking photos of a gas compressor station. More recently, members of Rising Tide in the Pacific Northwest have been contacted or visited by FBI agents. (The energy companies’ fear of transparency is in some ways similar to the livestock industry’s exposé anxiety, which has led to the passage of so-called ag-gag laws that prohibit the filming of farms and ranches.)</font></p><p class="pullQuoteLeft" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The frontlines of the energy wars are no longer overseas, but rather in places like Nebraska, Texas, and Pennsylvania.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But what happens when the private sector’s assumptions about criminal activity are wrong or misleading? In Pennsylvania the oil and gas industry has driven speculation that environmental organizations were behind several acts of vandalism at or near drilling sites, even though there’s no evidence of any link whatsoever. The unfounded assertion has spilled into the local press. In February 2014, The <cite>Williamsport Sun-Gazette</cite> in northeast Pennsylvania ran a story about the crimes headlined, “Ecoterror Target: Gas companies bolster security in response to threats.”</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jeff Monaghan, a PhD candidate in Sociology at Queen’s University in Ontario who writes on issues of surveillance, says the RCMP document reflects how deeply intertwined the suspicions of energy companies and intelligence agencies have become. “The broader context of this document is a very, very close working relationship between the Critical Infrastructure Protection team and the energy corporations. As the relationship develops the underlying belief is that environmentalists are first-and-foremost a threat to the economy. It’s really about protecting shared values of economic growth.”</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Or, as the RCMP report put it, “Canada’s economic growth … and the objectives of environmentalists are in direct conflict.” Environmental activists wouldn’t disagree with that, especially given the aggressive pro-energy policies of the Harper government. What they take issue with is the highly provocative claim that their opposition to the energy industry will likely lead to criminal activity. As the interests of the state and energy sector become increasingly close, however, this perception is taking hold. Activists worry that it is shaping law enforcement’s approach to the movement and could lead to a crackdown on legal protest.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“It doesn’t surprise me that the industry is trying really hard to paint the environmental movement as fringe or dangerous, because it’s their last resort,” says Catskill Mountainkeeper’s Gillingham. “It’s behavior based on a losing argument.”</font></p><p class="dropcap" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The conflict over the Keystone XL pipeline has reinforced the narrative that economic prosperity and environmental protection are mutually exclusive. Pipeline proponents like to paint the opposition as job killers and, yes, extremists. In April 2014, Allison Moore, a spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, described the pipeline as “a project that is being blocked purely by environmental extremism.” More recently, US Senator Cory Gardner, a Colorado Republican, called anti-fracking activists campaigning for a moratorium “radical environmentalists.” A major Washington PR firm, Berman and Co., has launched an ad campaign bankrolled by the energy industry called “Big Green Radicals” that seeks to smear high-profile activists.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But the demonization of environmental advocates goes far beyond mere polemics.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, has worked closely with law enforcement along the proposed pipeline route from the very early stages of its development</span>. A certain amount of collaboration with law enforcement is to be expected with any major infrastructure project. But TransCanada has gone further. The company has pressured attorneys general to prosecute environmental activists under terrorism statutes. It has given local law enforcement advance notice of meetings with landowners whom the company describes as hostile. And the company has held workshops with local law enforcement and the FBI, including a daylong “strategy meeting” in Oklahoma with the FBI in 2012.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">According to documents obtained by <cite>Earth Island Journal</cite>, the FBI distributed a bulletin in early 2013 “regarding threat concerns by environmental extremists against the Keystone Pipeline expansion project” to law enforcement across Nebraska. In its strategic plan for 2014-2017, South Dakota Homeland Security identifies what it considers to be extremist enclaves in the state, through which Keystone is proposed to pass. According to the document, “Uranium mining in the southwest part of the state and a proposed oil pipeline in the western part of the state garnered the attention of extremist environmental groups.” The report does not describe or name the groups, their intentions, or tactics. A public records request for additional documents or communication regarding “extremist environmental groups” in South Dakota was denied.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><em>(Read the FBI bulletin <a href="http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/spring2015/assets/fbiBulletin.pdf">here</a> <span class="print-footnote">[3]</span>.</em>)</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2013 <cite>Earth Island Journal</cite> <a href="http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/undercover_agents_infiltrated_tar_sands_resistance_camp_to_break_up_planned/">reported on the infiltration of a Tar Sands Resistance training camp</a> <span class="print-footnote">[9]</span> in Oklahoma. Two undercover officers from the Bryan County Sheriff’s office attended the weeklong event and shared intelligence with the Oklahoma Department of Homeland Security Fusion Center. Law enforcement was tipped off and a planned act of civil disobedience was preempted. During that same week TransCanada’s corporate security advisor was in frequent contact with the Oklahoma Fusion Center and made comments on a classified situational awareness bulletin.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In many ways Texas, where the Keystone pipeilne would terminate, is the heart of the American oil and gas industry. Not surprisingly, activists there are routinely harassed by law enforcement and corporate security for nothing more than keeping tabs on the industry. In East Houston, the city’s industrial hub and most polluted neighborhood (Houston itself is one of the most polluted cities in the country), environmental activist and community organizer Bryan Parras has been questioned by the police on several occasions and once was contacted by a Coast Guard special agent assigned to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in Houston. The organization he helps run with his father, <a href="http://tejasbarrios.org/" target="blank">Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services</a> <span class="print-footnote">[10]</span> (or TEJAS), has been closely watched. Parras frequently takes activists and journalists on what he calls “toxic tours” – a survey of the neighborhood’s refineries, chemical plants, and shipping ports. He’s made a point of documenting the air pollution caused by the flaring at the refineries that flank the neighborhood. He says the images “compel people to action.”</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">They’ve also made Parras a subject of interest for industry and law enforcement. He is routinely questioned by the police or harassed by security representatives from Valero Energy, a major refining company and one of the industries Parras monitors. In 2013 Parras got a text from a friend, Tish Stringer, saying that an agent had visited her home and wanted to know about her relationship with him. The Coast Guard special agent, David Pileggi, told Stringer he’d been tipped off by <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Valero.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“It’s nothing new,” Parras says. “Since 9/11 we’ve been harassed repeatedly and pulled over for taking pictures or video of the facilities.”</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In an emailed statement, Bill Day, vice president of communications at Valero, said the Houston refinery is designated by Homeland Security as “critical infrastructure” and therefore must meet enhanced security requirements. “One of those requirements,” he wrote, “is that when we see people taking photos or video of our facilities, we ascertain the purpose of that activity and then report it to DHS.” <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to Shauna Dunlap, media coordinator for the FBI’s Houston Division, photographing and videotaping of critical infrastructures “can be a precursor of potential criminal activity.” The Joint Terrorism Task Force, she says, is “obligated to look into each and every suspicious activity report.”</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This kind of surveillance and intimidation, Parras says, is particularly chilling in an area with a large number of undocumented residents. Not only are they vulnerable to threats of deportation, but also they’re quite literally at the crossroads of environmental destruction and the risks associated with climate change. East Houston is home to a disproportionate number of the city’s largest sources of industrial pollution, four major highways, and the shipping channel that feeds into the Port of Houston. If built, the Keystone XL pipeline would terminate in East Houston; Valero has a contract with TransCanada to receive most of the oil. “On the basis of location alone these neighborhoods appear far more vulnerable to health risks than others in Greater Houston,” a 2006 study commissioned by the mayor’s office concluded. In addition, rising sea levels threaten to inundate the heavily industrialized shoreline. “It puts us at even higher risk because we’re on the coast,” says Parras. “All these facilities are right on the water.”</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In many ways, for activists like Parras the last line of defense lies in taking photos, documenting the impacts of industrial pollution, and simply bearing witness. TEJAS hasn’t even engaged in civil disobedience or direct action, he says. Still, his organization is on Valero’s watch list. TEJAS organizers have been followed and photographed or videoed by Valero security personnel. Local teachers who joined Parras on one of his toxic tours were bullied into deleting photos and video they had taken of the refinery. Journalists he has shown around have been threatened by Valero that they’ll be reported to the FBI.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In the eyes of the oil and gas industry this is the new environmental extremism. And that view is being shared with law enforcement at every level.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The intimidation and surveillance have had an impact. Parras says his advocacy has been compromised by Valero’s scrutiny of his organization and the refinery’s close relationship with law enforcement. “It’s difficult to get neighbors to want to engage and speak out,” he says. </font></p><div class="bio-new body_environment"><div class="author-bio"><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Adam Federman, recipient of a Polk Grant for Investigative Reporting, is a contributing writer to </span><em style="padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px; line-height: 18px;">Earth Island Journal.</em><span style="line-height: 18px;"> His work has appeared in Salon, among other outlets.</span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><h1 class="entry-title" style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Range Resources Uses Military “Psy-Ops” to Counter Pennsylvania Drilling Opponents</font></h1><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2011/11/08/range-resources-uses-military-psy-ops-to-counter-pennsylvania-drilling-opponents/"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2011/11/08/range-resources-uses-military-psy-ops-to-counter-pennsylvania-drilling-opponents/</font></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISkqQ3hpW5E"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISkqQ3hpW5E</font></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">cointelpro-101 1 hr vid doc</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p /><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a id="ctl00_cphContentMainFrame_dlSchedule1_ctl07_hypProgramTxt" href="http://www.booktv.org/Program/15391/The+Burglary+The+Discovery+of+J+Edgar+Hoovers+Secret+FBI.aspx" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 17px;">The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI"</a><span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span></font></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-style: italic; line-height: 17px;">Betty Medsger</span></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i><a href="http://www.booktv.org/Program/15391/The+Burglary+The+Discovery+of+J+Edgar+Hoovers+Secret+FBI.aspx"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.booktv.org/Program/15391/The+Burglary+The+Discovery+of+J+Edgar+Hoovers+Secret+FBI.aspx</font></a></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.corporatepolicy.org/spookybusiness.pdf"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.corporatepolicy.org/spookybusiness.pdf</font></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.corporatepolicy.org/2013/11/20/spooky-business/">http://www.corporatepolicy.org/2013/11/20/spooky-business/</a>  nice blogroll  and links <a href="http://www.corporatepolicy.org/links/">http://www.corporatepolicy.org/links/</a></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">BBI Beckett<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Brown<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>International<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vs.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>many<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>nonprofit<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>groups<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 9<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> The<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Center<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Food<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Safety,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Friends<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>of<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Earth<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>GE<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Food<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Alert<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 13<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> U.S.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Public<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Interest<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Research<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Group,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Friends<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>of<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Earth,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>National<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Environmental<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Trust/GE<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Food<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Alert,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Center<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Food<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Safety,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Environmental<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Media<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Services,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Environmental<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Working<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Group,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Institute<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Global<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Communications,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Pesticide<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Action<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Network.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 15<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Fenton<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Communications<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 15<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Greenpeace,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>CLEAN<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Lake<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Charles<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Project<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 16<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> North<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Valley<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Coalition<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 17<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Nursing<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>home<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>activists<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 17<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Mary<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Lou<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sapone<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Brady<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Campaign<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 17</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">US<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Chamber<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>of<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Commerce/HBGary<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Federal/Hunton<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Williams<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vs.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>U.S.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Chamber<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Watch/Public<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Citizen/Public<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Campaign/MoveOn.org/Velvet<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Revolution/Center<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>American<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Progress/Tides<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Foundation/Justice<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Through<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Music/Move<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Amend/Ruckus<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Society<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 18<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">HBGary<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Federal/Hunton<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Williams/Bank<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>of<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>America<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vs.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>WikiLeaks<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 21<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Chevron/Kroll<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>in<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ecuador<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 22<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Walmart<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vs.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Up<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Against<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Wal<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 23<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Électricité<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>de<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>France<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vs.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Greenpeace<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 23<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">E.ON/Scottish<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Resources<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Group/Scottish<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Power/Vericola/Rebecca<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Todd<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vs.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Camp<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Climate<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Action<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 25<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Burger<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>King<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Diplomatic<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tactical<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Services<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vs.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Coalition<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>of<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Immokalee<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Workers<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 26<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Pharmaceutical<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Research<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Manufacturers<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Association<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>others<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vs.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>James<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Love/Knowledge<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Ecology<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>International<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 26<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Feld<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Entertainment<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vs.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>PETA,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>PAWS<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>other<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>animal<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>protection<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>groups<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 27<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">BAE<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vs.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Campaign<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Against<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Arms<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Trade<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 28<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Global<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Open<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 29<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Inkerman<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Group<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>C2i<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vs.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Plane<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Stupid<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Brown<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Williamson/Investigative<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Group<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vs.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Jeffrey<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Wigand<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 30</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Shell/BP/Manfred<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Schlickenrieder/Hakluyt<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vs.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Greenpeace<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 31<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">McDonald’s<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vs.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>London<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Greenpeace<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 31<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Stratfor<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 32<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Coca-Cola<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Stratfor<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vs.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>People<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ethical<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Treatment<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>of<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Animals<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 32<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Dow<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Chemical<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Stratfor<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vs.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Bhopal<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>justice<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>activists<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 32<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Stratfor<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Texas<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Department<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>of<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Public<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Safety<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vs.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Occupy<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Austin<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Deep<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Green<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Resistance<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 33<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Monsanto,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Blackwater<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Total<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Intelligence<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Solutions<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vs.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>unnamed<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>activists</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/25/spooky_business_us_corporations_enlist_ex"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/25/spooky_business_us_corporations_enlist_ex</font></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A new report details how corporations are increasingly spying on nonprofit groups they regard as potential threats. The corporate watchdog organization<b> Essential Information</b> found a diverse groups of nonprofits have been targeted with espionage, including environmental, antiwar, public interest, consumer safety, pesticide reform, gun control, social justice, animal rights and arms control groups. The corporations carrying out the spying include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Wal-Mart, Monsanto, Bank of America, Dow Chemical, Kraft, Coca-Cola, Chevron, Burger King, McDonald’s, Shell, BP, and others. According to the report, these corporations employ former </span><span class="caps" style="line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CIA</span><span style="line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, National Security Agency and </span><span class="caps" style="line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FBI</span><span style="line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> agents to engage in private surveillance work, which is often illegal in nature but rarely — if ever — prosecuted. We’re joined by Gary Ruskin, author of the report, "Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations," and director of the Center for Corporate Policy, a project of Essential Information.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><h1 class="pageTitle" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 28px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Journalist Exposes How Private Investigation Firm Hired by Chevron Tried to Recruit Her as a Spy to Undermine $27B Suit in Ecuadorian Amazon</font></h1><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/16/journalist_exposes_how_private_investigation_firm"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/16/journalist_exposes_how_private_investigation_firm</font></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">An exposé in </span><i style="line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Atlantic</i><span style="line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> magazine reveals how </span><span style="line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">one of the world’s largest private investigation firms, Kroll, hired by oil giant Chevron, t</span><span style="line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ried to recruit an American journalist to undermine a massive $27 billion lawsuit against Chevron brought by the residents of the Ecuadorian Amazon. We speak with the journalist, Mary Cuddehe, and with Han Shan, the coordinator for Amazon Watch’s Clean Up Ecuador campaign. [includes rush transcript]</span></font></div><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><div class="print-content"><div id="node-885244" class="node node-story view-mode-print clearfix" about="/books/united-states-paranoia-how-fbi-spied-and-lied-so-conspiracy-theorists-would-sound-crazy" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" style="position: relative;"><div class="byline media-culture" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="field field-name-field-sources field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden">Harper Collins Publishers, Inc.</span> / <em>By</em> <em><a href="http://www.alternet.org/authors/jesse-walker">Jesse Walker</a> <span class="print-footnote">[1]</span></em></font></div><div class="headline"><h1 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="node-title" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">United States of Paranoia: How the FBI Spied and Lied So Conspiracy Theorists Would Sound Crazy</font></h1></div><div class="the_body body_media-culture clearfix"><div class="story-date" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><em><span class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><span class="field-items"><span class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-08-20T15:57:00-07:00">August 20, 2013</span></span></span></span> </em> |  </font></div><p style="text-align: left;"><em><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The following is an excerpt from Jesse Walker's new book, The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory (<a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/books/United-States-Paranoia-Jesse-Walker/?isbn=9780062135551">Harper Collins Publishers, Inc</a> <span class="print-footnote">[2]</span>, 2013): </font></em></p><p class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The special agent in charge of the FBI’s San Diego office had a plan. An antidraft activist in the area was convinced that the Bureau was watching him—he kept telling people that his phone was tapped, his home bugged, his every move observed. With “a small push in the right direction,” the agent believed, the activist would start exhibiting “obvious paranoid tendencies,” and that would “completely neutralize him in his several leadership capacities.”</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">So let’s make a big show of spying on the man, the investigator suggested. Maybe we could build a spooky-looking mechanism from a bicycle part and an old transistor radio, then drop it off near his front steps one night. “In the event he displayed the contraption to anyone,” the officer argued, “its crude construction would ultimately neutralize any allegation that it originated or is being utilized by the FBI.” And if the target tried to tell people it was a bugging device, they’d ridicule him.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Headquarters wasn’t convinced. The problem wasn’t that the plan was unethical, unconstitutional, or absurd. It was that the activist might not be important enough to be “a suitable target for counter-intelligence action.” The agent was told to investigate the fellow further, then “resubmit your request if his importance to the New Left movement warrants such attention.” In other words, the Bureau should spend more time spying on the man before it tried to convince the man he was being spied on.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It was November 1968, and that was just one of hundreds of operations against domestic dissidents that FBI agents were proposing, and frequently carrying out, as a part of COINTELPRO, a program to disrupt and neutralize political movements that the Bureau deemed subversive. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When it was launched in 1956, COINTELPRO had been aimed at the remnants of the Communist Party and at the groups the party had allegedly infiltrated. Gradually the <b>program’s targets had expanded. COINTELPRO–Communist Party USA was joined by COINTELPRO–Socialist Workers Party, then COINTELPRO–White Hate Groups, then COINTELPRO– Black Nationalist/Hate Groups, then COINTELPRO–New Left.</b></span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The White Hate Groups effort was a watershed. The previous COINTELPROs had been designed with the Enemy Outside in mind: The Bureau’s target might have nothing to do with Soviet subversion, but the idea that it might be linked to Soviet subversion was always in play. <b>But even J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI’s famously anti-Communist director, found it difficult to argue that the Reds controlled the Klan. </b>Once the White Hate Groups program began in 1964, the sociologist David Cunningham has noted, many more groups could “be thought of as ‘subversive’ and therefore suitable targets for counterintelligence programs. No longer did a subversive group have to be controlled by or intimately tied to a hostile foreign power.” Because the Bureau was aiming its fire at the radical Right, powerful liberals were happy to sign off on the program, setting a precedent that made it easier later for the Bureau to target the antiwar movement and the Black Panthers.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Under COINTELPRO, FBI agents infiltrated political groups and spread rumors that loyal members were the real infiltrators. They tried to get targets fired from their jobs, and they tried to break up the targets’ marriages. They published deliberately inflammatory literature in the names of the organizations they wanted to discredit, and they drove wedges between groups that might otherwise be allied</b>. In Baltimore, the FBI’s operatives in the Black Panther Party were instructed to denounce Students for a Democratic Society as “a cowardly, honky group” who wanted to exploit the Panthers by giving them all the violent, dangerous “dirty work.” The operation was apparently successful: In August 1969, just five months after the initial instructions went out, the Baltimore FBI reported that the local Panther branch had ordered its members not to associate with SDS members or attend any SDS events.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sometimes the Bureau’s efforts were <b>simply strange</b>. Late in 1968, the FBI’s Philadelphia office pondered how it might react to the counterculture’s rising interest in the occult. “Some leaders of the New Left, its followers, the Hippies and the Yippies, wear beads and amulets,” an agent observed. “New Left youth involved in anti-Vietnam activity have adopted the Greek letter ‘Omega’ as their symbol. Self-proclaimed yogis have established a following in the New Left movement.” Under those “conditions,” he argued, it might be effective if “a few select top-echelon leaders of the New Left be subjected to harassment by a series of anonymous messages with a mystical connotation.”</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As examples of such messages, the agent enclosed two sketches: a beetle, with the caption “Beware! The Siberian Beetle”; and a toad, with the caption <b>“Beware! The Asiatic Toad.”</b> The recipient, he explained, would be</font></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"left to make his own interpretation as to the significance of the symbol and the message and as to the identity of the sender. The symbol utilized does not have to have any real significance but must be subject to interpretation as having a mystical, sinister meaning.</font></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">If all of COINTELPRO had resembled the Siberian beetle plan, it would be a minor part of history: unconstitutional but clueless and ultimately harmless, the product of the same blundering Bureau that felt the need to file a report on the Monkees. (The Los Angeles field office claimed that a concert by the band had included left-wing “subliminal messages.”)<b> But the FBI’s activities were often darker and more dangerous. When the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Senate investigated COINTELPRO, </span>the chief of the Bureau’s Racial Intelligence Section claimed that “no one was killed” after the FBI falsely tagged him or her as a snitch</b>. Someone asked if this had been a matter of planning or just sheer luck. “Oh, it just happened that way, I’m sure,” the officer replied.9</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This is where the study of conspiracy theories becomes a hall of mirrors. The feds didn’t just infiltrate and disrupt dissident groups; they made sure the groups knew that they were being infiltrated and disrupted, so activists would suspect one another of being police agents. In effect, COINTELPRO functioned as a conspiracy to defeat subversive conspiracies by convincing the alleged subversives that they were being conspired against.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While all that was going on, the CIA was engaged in its own program of domestic political surveillance. With the flair of a villain in a campy James Bond rip-off, the agency called it Operation CHAOS. And in the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nixon White House, an aide named Tom Charles<b><u> Huston</u></b> was drawing up plans for yet another countersubversive operation, one that would roll back restrictions Hoover had imposed in 1966 and also expand the powers of the CIA and military intelligence to spy at home. </span>Huston wanted to revive the use of “black bag jobs”—in plain English, the use of break-ins. He wanted to make it easier for the feds to tap phones and read people’s mail. He wanted to send more FBI informants to college campuses and devote more CIA resources to watching students abroad. And he wanted the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Agency, and military intelligence to answer to an Interagency Group on Internal Security staffed by the White House.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Huston Plan was stopped, but not because of anyone’s civil libertarian scruples. It was blocked by J. Edgar Hoover, who had no interest in submitting to an interdepartmental committee.</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">*</font></strong></p><p style="text-align: left;"><em><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Published with permission from <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/browseinside/index.aspx?isbn13=9780062135551">Harper Collins Publishers, Inc. </a> <span class="print-footnote">[3]</span></font></em></p></div><div class="big_story_tools_bottom_container"><div class="talk_box"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="small" /></font></div></div><div class="story_tools_bottom"><div class="text-size"><div class="story_tools_email"><div class="story_tools_print"><div class="story_tools_share"><div class="story_tools_social_buttons"><div class="tags"><div style="text-align: left;"><em style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">See more stories tagged with:</font></em></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/fear" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">fear</a> <span class="print-footnote">[4]</span>,</font></div><div class="field-item odd" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/fbi-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">fbi</a> <span class="print-footnote">[5]</span>,</font></div><div class="field-item even" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/paranoia-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">paranoia</a> <span class="print-footnote">[6]</span>,</font></div><div class="field-item odd" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/watergate" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">watergate</a> <span class="print-footnote">[7]</span>,</font></div><div class="field-item even" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/cointelpro" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">cointelpro</a> <span class="print-footnote">[8]</span>,</font></div><div class="field-item odd" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/spying" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">spying</a> <span class="print-footnote">[9]</span>,</font></div><div class="field-item even" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/nsa" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">nsa</a> <span class="print-footnote">[10]</span>,</font></div><div class="field-item odd" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/united-states" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">united states</a> <span class="print-footnote">[11]</span></font></div></div></div></div><div class="comment_button"><div class="print-footer" style="text-align: center;"><hr class="print-hr" style="text-align: left; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; height: 1px; width: 948.799987792969px; background-color: rgb(158, 158, 158);" /><div class="print-source_url" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>Source URL:</strong> <a href="http://www.alternet.org/books/united-states-paranoia-how-fbi-spied-and-lied-so-conspiracy-theorists-would-sound-crazy">http://www.alternet.org/books/united-states-paranoia-how-fbi-spied-and-lied-so-conspiracy-theorists-would-sound-crazy</a></font></div><div class="print-links"><p /><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Links:</font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[1] http://www.alternet.org/authors/jesse-walker</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[2] http://www.harpercollins.com/books/United-States-Paranoia-Jesse-Walker/?isbn=9780062135551</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[3] http://www.harpercollins.com/browseinside/index.aspx?isbn13=9780062135551</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[4] http://www.alternet.org/tags/fear</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[5] http://www.alternet.org/tags/fbi-0</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[6] http://www.alternet.org/tags/paranoia-0</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[7] http://www.alternet.org/tags/watergate</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[8] http://www.alternet.org/tags/cointelpro</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[9] http://www.alternet.org/tags/spying</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[10] http://www.alternet.org/tags/nsa</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[11] http://www.alternet.org/tags/united-states</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[12] http://www.alternet.org/%2Bnew_src%2B</font></div></div><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">occupy phoenix, see also occupy in webofdec</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://progressive.org/spying-on-ccupy-activists"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://progressive.org/spying-on-ccupy-activists</font></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/06/25/activists-the-us-military-targeted-spied-upon-were-designated-domestic-terrorists/"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/06/25/activists-the-us-military-targeted-spied-upon-were-designated-domestic-terrorists/</font></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">dn:</font></div><div><p style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>United Students Against Sweatshop</b> have filed a suit against Washington, D.C., seeking an injunction to stop police from spying on the group’s activities. The lawsuit claims a police officer named Nicole Rizzi infiltrated anti-sweatshop protests after the devastating factory fire in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 workers in April. Activists say they were able to uncover Rizzi’s identity because she left several clues on social media sites. In a photo posted on the site YFrog, Rizzi points out a typo on a piece of mail addressed to the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> "DC Metropolation Police </span>Department." Rizzi’s finger partially covers up the address line, but it appears to identify her as director of the Intelligence Branch. In a post on Rizzi’s since-deleted Tumblr account, she wrote, "In the position I’m in, it’s beneficial to wear ordinary clothes. Plainclothes assignments too, you wear what would blend in." We speak to reporter Mike Elk of In These Times magazine. He is author of the article, "Activists Identify DC Cop Who Infiltrated Bangladesh Sweatshop Protests."</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> <strong>TRANSCRIPT</strong></font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>AMY GOODMAN:</strong> We end today’s show by looking at a startling new <a href="http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/15419/exclusive_activists_identify_dc_cop_who_infiltrated_bangladesh_protesters/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">article</a> detailing how an undercover police officer infiltrated peaceful protests and got caught. The article is written by <em>In These Times</em> magazine reporter Mike Elk. It’s called "Activists Identify DC Cop Who Infiltrated Bangladesh Sweatshop Protests."</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Elk writes that D.C. activists had long suspected<b> police routinely infiltrated and spied</b> on their protests, but until now were unable to conclusively identify any specific undercover police officer. After months of gathering evidence, attorneys Jeffrey Light and Sean Canavan worked with United Students Against Sweatshops, or USAS, to confirm the true identity of a Metro police officer named Nicole Rizzi, who had posed as a protester named "Missy." At one point, the police officer pretended to participate in a USAS protest against companies doing business in Bangladesh — companies that refused to sign the Accord on Fire and Building Safety following the death of over 1,100 Bangladeshi garment workers in the Rana Plaza factory collapse in April.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Well, on Monday, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">USAS filed suit against the District of Columbia seeking an injunction to stop police from spying on the group’s activities.</span> Activists were able to uncover Nicole Rizzi’s identity, because she left several clues on social media sites. In a photo posted on the site YFrog, Officer Rizzi points out a typo on a piece of mail addressed to the "DC Metropolation Police Department." Rizzi’s finger partially covers up the address line, but it appears to identify her as director of the Intelligence Branch. On her now-deleted Twitter account, Rizzi tweeted, "They used to call me No Sweat Nico because no matter how hot it was at academy, I never sweat." And in a post on Rizzi’s since-deleted Tumblr account, she wrote, quote, "In the position I’m in, it’s beneficial to wear ordinary clothes. Plainclothes assignments too, you wear what would blend in."</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Well, for more on this story, we’re joined in Washington, D.C., by reporter Mike Elk, who broke the piece in <em>In These Times</em>.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Welcome back to <em>Democracy Now!</em>, Mike. Explain how they identified this officer and what the significance of this means.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>MIKE ELK:</strong> Well, I think in some ways it’s a testament to what a small town D.C. is that they were able to identify this woman. Basically, an activist had been very suspect of this woman for a number of years, seen her in a lot of meetings, at nearly every protest, but nobody seemed to know her, and she acted strange. Then, on time, I guess this activist, Lacy MacAuley, was at a bar, and somebody showed a Twitter account of this woman, and right away Lacy knew who it was, knew that this woman was Missy, and then, after scrolling through the account, began to discover this woman’s name was actually Nicole and that she was a cop, based on her describing the day-to-day routine. Then, after a matter of time, Sean Canavan and Jeffrey <b>Light did a lot of pretty obsessive Facebook stalking</b> and other social media stocking and found that this woman, despite being an undercover cop, could not stop talking about being a cop on Twitter and Facebook, etc., etc. And so, eventually, they were walking one day, Jeffrey Light was, and outside of a protest at Children’s Place, which refuses to sign the fire and safety accord for Bangladesh, and he spotted her, and they observed her at several other protests. So that’s how they were able to find this, and it’s some real crack work by some activists here.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>AMY GOODMAN:</strong> And so, explain what USAS, United Students Against Sweatshops, are doing.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>MIKE ELK:</strong> So right now United Students Against Sweatshops is putting pressure on retailers like Gap, Children’s Place, Wal-Mart, Target, to sign the Bangladesh accord on fire and safety. This would be an accord that would set up a third-party organization to monitor safety conditions in Bangladesh, as well as allow binding arbitration by Bangladeshi courts if terms of this agreement are violated.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>AMY GOODMAN:</strong> And what they’re doing about the infiltration by this D.C. officer?</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>MIKE ELK:</strong> So, <b>under D.C. law passed in 2004, an officer can’t be used undercover unless there is approval from a designated person within the police department</b>. An audit by the D.C. government last year showed that in 17 cases over a five-year period in which police officers were used undercover, that not one of them had approval from this person. So right now the lawyers are suing to get an injunction to stop the spying on United Students Against Sweatshops.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>AMY GOODMAN:</strong> I see you also write that this Missy, Nicole Rizzi, the undercover cop, was at an anti-<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Keystone</span> pipeline protest, as well, at the Canadian embassy on March 21st.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>MIKE ELK:</strong> As well as at a World Bank protest, and people claim that they’ve spotted her at other events over the years. And quite a few people have spoken about her.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>AMY GOODMAN:</strong> What does this infiltration mean for protests? What kind of effect do you think it has? Does it make people afraid to get involved? And does it make people then suspicious of each other, like "Who’s infiltrating? Who is really here because they’re deeply concerned about an issue?"</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>MIKE ELK:</strong> Yeah, I mean, certainly, you know, organizing is about folks coming together that don’t know each other to fight for something collectively. Now, if you’re an organizer or an activist, and a stranger, a well-intentioned stranger, comes up to you and wants to get involved and you don’t know them, are you going to be suspect that this person is a cop who might spy on you and disrupt your protest? I think it really builds distrust among strangers that, in an increasingly difficult time, need to come together and organize. So I think it’s a real problem.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>AMY GOODMAN:</strong> You have written a great deal about Bangladesh labor abuses and their connection to U.S. multinational corporations. Talk about what is the latest now and why people would be outside Children’s Place, one clothing store, and other places like this.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>MIKE ELK:</strong> Well, it appears—you know, the U.S. government did slap a small sanction on the Bangladeshi government for its record on workers’ right. They took away their GSP special trade status. But that only cost the Bangladeshi government—the Bangladeshi industries about $40 million a year, and it doesn’t directly affect the garment industries. It’s more symbolic.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It appears, from the reporting of reporters like Banglashi reporter Emran Hossain and others, that t<b>hings are going back to normal in Bangladesh. I</b>n fact, in some ways, labor law is getting worse in Bangladesh. Hospital workers and nonprofit workers got the right to join a union taken away in Bangladesh. Workers in export processing zones still don’t have the right to unionize. Reporting by people like Jim Yardley of <em>The New York Times</em> shows that the building inspectors are still doing the same kind of corrupt things they used to do in the past. So it appears that business is going back to normal.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And nothing has been done to track down the people that killed Bangladeshi trade unionist Aminul Islam in 2012.</span> And the Bangladeshi government won’t even provide a photo of the suspects so that they can track it down, and it’s widely believed that the people that killed Aminul Islam were the Bangladeshi intelligence service.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">So, it appears that there’s some more pressure going on, but Bangladesh seems to be waiting it out. And, you know, the U.S. could slap tougher sanctions on Bangladesh if they wanted to, but Bangladesh keeps throwing out this card that if they do, it will breed radical Islam in Bangladesh. So you really see, interestingly, the war on terror preventing tougher—you know, disrupting activists at home here in the U.S., as well as preventing tougher sanctions on Bangladesh, because of this fear of radical Islam in Bangladesh.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>AMY GOODMAN:</strong> Finally, Mike Elk, we just have 10 seconds, but does anything happen when an undercover officer who’s posing as a protester actually gets outed, like in the case of Nicole Rizzi?</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>MIKE ELK:</strong> She may get fired. It’s unclear. The D.C. police haven’t really spoken about it yet.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>AMY GOODMAN:</strong> Why would she get fired? I mean, she’s not doing this on her own.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>MIKE ELK:</strong> Well, I mean, I think when somebody does something as sloppy as be an undercover cop and talk about it all over social media, that’s kind of a screw-up.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>AMY GOODMAN:</strong> Mike Elk, I want to thank you for being with us, labor reporter for <em>In These Times</em>.</font></p><p class="collapsed-hide" style="text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>MIKE ELK:</strong> Thanks for having me on.</font></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">humanewatch bs crypto:</font></p><p style="" /><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>U.S. Department of Homeland Security</b></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">07 May 2008</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">UNIVERSAL ADVERSARY DYNAMIC THREAT ASSESSMENT</font></div><p style="text-align: left;"><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ecoterrorism:</span> Environmental and Animal-Rights Militants in the United States

</font></strong>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In this report, marked “UNCLASSIFIED // FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY,” the U.S. Department of Homeland Security writes (page 9):</font></p>

<blockquote style=""><p style="text-align: left;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">PETA, the Fund for Animals, In Defense of Animals, the

New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance, and certain individuals within the

HSUS are known or suspected of having financial ties to individuals and

groups associated with ecoterrorism. In addition to financial ties to

ecomilitancy, both HSUS and PETA, or at least individuals within those

organizations, have an established record of supporting individuals

and/or groups commonly associated with ecoterrorism.</font></p></blockquote>

<p style="text-align: left;"><em><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">UPDATE (18-Feb-2010): HSUS’s attorneys inform me that

this report has been withdrawn and re-written by DHS, and no longer

includes references to either HSUS or the Fund for Animals. <a href="http://www.scribd.com/full/27077682?access_key=key-ml4zf4cv8agqgu2wgti">Click here to read a letter</a> from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to HSUS about this.</font></strong></em></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==
</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">From directing local police to investigate non-violent political

activists and religious groups in Texas to advocating surveillance of

third-party presidential candidate supporters in Missouri, there have

been repeated and persistent disclosures of troubling memos and reports

from local fusions centers. The five letters sent by the ACLU to the

DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties asked for independent

investigations into the following incidents: </font></p>

<ul style=""><li style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A May 7, 2008 report entitled “Universal Adversary Dynamic

Threat Assessment” authored by a private contractor that labeled

environmental organizations like the Sierra Club, the Humane Society

and the Audubon Society as “mainstream organizations with known or

possible links to eco-terrorism”;</font></li></ul><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">---
</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A

thorough search and review of news accounts by the ACLU reveals that

these law enforcement behaviors have taken place in at least 36 states

plus the District of Columbia in recent years. Americans have been put

under surveillance or harassed by the police just for deciding to

organize, march, protest, espouse unusual viewpoints, and engage in

normal, innocuous behaviors such as writing notes or taking photographs

in public.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">For example, in 2009, at least four troubling <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fusion Center r</span>eports have come to light:</font>

<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">• The Virginia Fusion Center's Homegrown Terrorism Document: </font></div>

<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.infowars.com/media/vafusioncenterterrorassessment.pdf" /><a href="http://www.infowars.com/media/vafusioncenterterrorassessment.pdf">http://www.infowars.com/media/vafusioncenterterrorassessment.pdf</a></font></div>

<p style="" /><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">• The Texas Fusion Center's Prevention Awareness Bulletin: </font></div>

<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.privacylives.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/texasfusion_021909.pdf" /><a href="http://www.privacylives.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/texasfusion_021909.pdf">http://www.privacylives.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/texasfusion_021909.pdf</a></font></div>

<p style="" /><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">• The Missouri Fusion Center's Document on the Modern Militia Movement: </font></div>

<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.privacylives.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/miacreport_022009.pdf" /><a href="http://www.privacylives.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/miacreport_022009.pdf">http://www.privacylives.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/miacreport_022009.pdf</a></font></div>

<p style="" /><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">• The Massachusetts Fusion Center's “Commonwealth Fusion Center's Standard Operating Procedures” </font></div>

<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.aclu.org/files/pdfs/spyfiles/ma_14furtherinformation_attach_guidelinesforinvestigationsinvolvingfirstamendactivity.pdf" /><a href="http://www.aclu.org/files/pdfs/spyfiles/ma_14furtherinformation_attach_guidelinesforinvestigationsinvolvingfirstamendactivity.pdf">http://www.aclu.org/files/pdfs/spyfiles/ma_14furtherinformation_attach_guidelinesforinvestigationsinvolvingfirstamendactivity.pdf</a></font></div>

<b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Nationally</font></b>

<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">• <i><u>DHS Reports Warns of Veterans.</u></i> DHS's "Right-Wing

Extremism" Report warned that right-wing extremists might recruit and

radicalize "disgruntled military veterans." ( </font></div>

<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/14/federal-agency-warns-of-radicals-on-right/" /><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/14/federal-agency-warns-of-radicals-on-right/">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/14/federal-agency-warns-of-radicals-on-right/</a>)</font></div>

<p style="" /><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">• <i><u>DHS Report Warns of Environmental Groups.</u></i> DHS's

Contractor Eco-Terrorism Report described environmental organizations

like the Sierra Club, the Humane Society, and the Audubon Society as

"mainstream organizations with known or possible links to

eco-terrorism." ( </font></div>

<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.unbossed.com/index.php?itemid=2546" /><a href="http://www.unbossed.com/index.php?itemid=2546">http://www.unbossed.com/index.php?itemid=2546</a>)</font></div>

<p style="" /><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">• <i><u>DHS Keeps Calendar of Peaceful Protests.</u></i> DHS's March

2006 "Protective Intelligence Bulletin" lists several advocacy groups

that were targets of the Maryland State Police operations, including

CODEPINK, Iraq Pledge of Resistance and DAWN, and contains a "civil

activists and extremists action calendar" that details dozens of

demonstrations planned around the country, mostly peace rallies. Federal

Protective Services apparently gleaned this information from the

Internet. There is no indication anywhere in the document to suggest

illegal activity might occur at any of these demonstrations. The ACLU

filed complaints in response to this improper intelligence gathering,

and the DHS Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties concluded its

review, determining that information like that will no longer be

distributed regionally or nationally, and will only be distributed

locally to those who have a situational awareness need for the

information. ( </font></div>

<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.aclu.org/privacy/gen/39226prs20090401.html">http://www.aclu.org/privacy/gen/39226prs20090401.html</a> and </font></div>

<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.aclu.org/national-security/letter-aclu-dhs-office-civil-rights-and-civil-liberties-regarding-surveillance" /><a href="http://www.aclu.org/national-security/letter-aclu-dhs-office-civil-rights-and-civil-liberties-regarding-surveillance">http://www.aclu.org/national-security/letter-aclu-dhs-office-civil-rights-and-civil-liberties-regarding-surveillance</a>)</font></div>

<p style="" /><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span><i><u><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">FBI Lists Green Party as Target for Eco-Terrorism Investigation</span>.</u></i> The FBI Field Intelligence Group lists the Green Party as potential future target of eco-terrorism investigation. ( </font></div>

<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://gawker.com/5329187/fbi-agent-thinks-the-green-party-is-a-terrorist-group-with-nukes" /><a href="http://gawker.com/5329187/fbi-agent-thinks-the-green-party-is-a-terrorist-group-with-nukes">http://gawker.com/5329187/fbi-agent-thinks-the-green-party-is-a-terrorist-group-with-nukes</a>)</font></div>

<p style="" /><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">• <i><u>DHS Reports on Nation of Islam in Violation of its own Protocols.</u></i>

In October 2007, DHS sent a report, "Nation of Islam: Uncertain

Leadership Succession Poses Risks," to hundreds of federal officials

despite the fact that Department guidelines had called for the files to

be destroyed because the assessment of the group had lasted more than

180 days without uncovering evidence of potential terrorism. ( </font></div>

<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/us/17disclose.html?r=2&ref=todayspaper" /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/us/17disclose.html?r=2&ref=todayspaper">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/us/17disclose.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper</a>).</font></div>

<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">• <i><u>FBI Spies on Activists Involved in First Amendment Activities and Mischaracterizes Civil Disobedience.</u></i>The

FBI improperly spied on American activists involved in First

Amendment-protected activities, mischaracterized nonviolent civil

disobedience as terrorism, and improperly placed activists on terrorist

watch lists, according to a report by the Justice Department��s Inspector

General (IG). The IG found the improper investigations were often

opened based on ��factually weak” or even “speculative” justifications

and were sometimes extended in duration without sufficient basis. ( <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/us/politics/21fbi.html" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/us/politics/21fbi.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/us/politics/21fbi.html</a>, <a title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/20/AR2010092003100.html" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/20/AR2010092003100.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/20/AR201009...</a>, <a title="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/09/fbi_cover-up_turns_laughable_s.html" href="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/09/fbi_cover-up_turns_laughable_s.html">http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/09/fbi_cover-up_turns_laugh...</a>, <a title="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989304575504192306892622.html" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989304575504192306892622.html">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870398930457550419230689262...</a>, and <a title="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fbi-activists-20100921,0,1755807.story" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fbi-activists-20100921,0,1755807.story">http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fbi-activists-20100...</a>).</font>

<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><i>Senate Security Will Use Internet <b>Data Mining</b> to Identify Lawmaker Threats.</i>

Senate Sgt. at Arms plans to contract with a private company to data

mine the internet and social media sites to search keywords</span> such as

lawmakers names, and “slash” or “shoot” to identify potential threats. ( </font></div>

<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/155881-senate-security-will-conduct-internet-data-mining-to-identify-lawmaker-threats" /><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/155881-senate-security-will-conduct-internet-data-mining-to-identify-lawmaker-threats">http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/155881-senate-security-will-conduct-internet-data-mining-to-identify-lawmaker-threats</a>)</font></div>

            
          
          <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.aclu.org/maps/spying-first-amendment-activity-state-state">http://www.aclu.org/maps/spying-first-amendment-activity-state-state</a><br /></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==<br /></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">short hist: <a href="http://www.albionmonitor.com/9905a/jbcointelpro.html">http://www.albionmonitor.com/9905a/jbcointelpro.html</a><br /></font></p><table style=""><tbody><tr><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">[Editor's note: More information on COINTELPRO in the Bari case is available at the Monitor&nbsp;<a href="http://www.albionmonitor.com/bari/default.html#fbi">Judi Bari index</a>. Much of the following was taken from Brian Glick's book<b> War At Home: Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and What We Can Do About It, (South End Press; Boston, 1989</b>), a source for detailed and documented information on the history of domestic covert action against movements for social change.]</font><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /><strong>In&nbsp;</strong>early 1971, the FBI's domestic counterintelligence program (code named "COINTELPRO") was brought to light when a </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Citizens Committee to Investigate the FBI" removed secret files from an FBI office in Media, PA and released them to the press. </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Agents began to resign from the Bureau and blow the whistle on covert operations. </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">T</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">hat same year, publication of the Pentagon Papers,</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> the Pentagon's top-secret history of the Vietnam War, exposed years of systematic official lies about the war.</font></span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Soon after, it was discovered that a clandestine squad of White House "plumbers" broke into Daniel </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office in an effort to smear the former Pentagon staffer who leaked the top-secret papers to the press. The same "plumbers" were later caught burglarizing the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee. By the mid-1970's Senate and House committees launched formal and lengthy inquiries into government intelligence and covert activities. These investigations revealed extensive covert and illegal counterintelligence programs involving the FBI, CIA, U.S. Army intelligence, the White House, the Attorney General, and even local and state law enforcement, directed against opponents of government domestic and foreign policy. </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Since then, many more instances of these "dirty tricks" have been revealed.</font></span></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">When congressional investigations, political trials and other traditional legal methods of repression failed to counter the growing movements of the 1950s, '60s and '70s, and even helped fuel them, the FBI and police moved outside the law. They used secret and systematic methods of fraud and force, far beyond mere surveillance, to sabotage constitutionally protected political activity. The purpose of the program was, in FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's own words, to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit and otherwise neutralize" specific groups and individuals. Its targets in this period included the American Indian Movement, the Communist Party, the Socialist Worker's Party, Black Nationalist groups, and many members of the New Left (SDS, and a broad range of anti-war, anti-racist, feminist, lesbian and gay, environmentalist and other groups). Many other groups and individuals seeking racial, gender and class justice were targets who came under attack, including Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, the NAACP, the National Lawyer's Guild, SANE-Freeze, American Friends Service Committee, and many, many others.</font></p><p /><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table style=""><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><font size="4"><br /></font></td><td height="1" width="35"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><img src="http://www.albionmonitor.com/art/transparent.gif" alt="" height="1" width="35" /></font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>The&nbsp;</strong>public exposure of COINTELPRO and other government abuses resulted in a flurry of apparent reform in the 1970s, but domestic covert action did not end. It has persisted, and seems a permanent feature of our government. Much of today's domestic covert action can also be kept concealed because of government secrecy that has been restored.</font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a source of major disclosures of COINTELPRO and other such activities, was drastically narrowed in the 1980s through administrative and judicial reinterpretation, as well as legislative amendment. While restoring such secrecy, the Reagan Administration also reinvigorated covert action, embracing its use at home and abroad. They endorsed it, sponsored it, and even legalized it to a great extent.</font><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">M</font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">uch of what was done outside the law under COINTELPRO was later legalized by Executive Order 12333 (12/4/81). </font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">There is every reason to believe that even what was not legalized is still going on as well. Lest we forget, Lt. Col. Oliver North funded and orchestrated from the White House basement break-ins and other "dirty tricks" to defeat congressional critics of U.S. policy in Central America and to neutralize grassroots protest. Special Prosecutor Walsh found evidence that </font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">North and Richard Secord (architect of the 1960s covert actions in Cambodia) used Iran-Contra funds to harass the Christic Institute, a church-funded public interest group specializing in exposing government misconduct.</font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">North also helped other administration officials at the <b>Federal Emergency Management Administration </b>develop contingency plans for suspending the Constitution, establishing martial law, and holding political dissidents in concentration camps in the event of "national opposition against a U.S. military invasion abroad." </font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">There were reports of similar activities and preparations in response to the opposition to the Gulf War in 1991. Even today, there is pending litigation against the FBI involving alleged misconduct in connection with the</font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> near-fatal bombing of Judi Bari.</font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table style=""><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></td><td height="1" width="35"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><img src="http://www.albionmonitor.com/art/transparent.gif" alt="" height="1" width="35" /></font></td><td><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>Although&nbsp;</strong>covert action will be adapted to changing social and technological conditions, only a limited number of methods exist. A study of COINTELPRO revealed </font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">four basic approaches.</font><p /><ul><li><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">First, there was </font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">infiltration.</font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> Agents and informers did not merely spy on political activists. The main purpose was to discredit and disrupt. Their presence served to undermine trust and scare off potential supporters. They also exploited this fear to smear genuine activists as agents.</font><p /></li><li><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Second, there was</font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> <b>psychological warfare</b> from the outside. They planted false media stories and published bogus leaflets and other publications in the name of targeted groups. They forged correspondence, sent anonymous letters, and made anonymous telephone calls. They spread misinformation about meetings and events, set up pseudo movement groups run by agents, and manipulated or strong-armed parents, employers, landlords, school officials and others to cause trouble for activists.</font><p /></li><li><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Third, there was harassment through the legal system, </font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">used to harass dissidents and make them appear to be criminals. Officers gave perjured testimony and presented fabricated evidence as a pretext for false arrests and wrongful imprisonment. They</font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> discriminatorily enforced tax laws</font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> and other government regulations and used conspicuous surveillance, "investigative" interviews, and grand jury subpoenas in an effort to intimidate activists and silence their supporters.</font><p /></li><li><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Fourth and finally, there was extralegal force and violence. The FBI and police threatened, instigated and conducted break-ins, vandalism, assaults, and beatings</font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">. The object was to frighten dissidents and disrupt their movements. In the case of radical Black and Puerto Rican activists (and later Native Americans), these attacks, including political assassinations, were so extensive, vicious, and calculated that they can only be accurately called a form of official "terrorism."</font></li></ul><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">For details, along with many examples of each of these methods, read Glick's well-documented and heavily footnoted "War At Home."</font></p><div><font size="4"><br /></font></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">--<br /></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/1-signs-of-an-emerging-police-state/"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/1-signs-of-an-emerging-police-state/</font></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/fbi-terrorist-informants">http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/fbi-terrorist-informants</a><br /></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/4-fbi-agents-responsible-for-majority-of-terrorist-plots-in-the-united-states/">http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/4-fbi-agents-responsible-for-majority-of-terrorist-plots-in-the-united-states/</a><br /></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">===</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Here's more on lobbyist / top Romney advisor Jim Talent:<br />

</font></p><ul style=""><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><li class="first" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In June, Stephanie Harnett, a senior associate at Talent's firm Mercury, was <a href="http://www.republicreport.org/2012/walmart-sends-fake-reporter-spy-warehouse-workers/">caught posing as a reporter</a>

and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">spying on labor organizers at a Walmart</span> warehouse. At the time,

Mercury represented Walmart. After the spying was disclosed, Mercury

fired Harnett and claimed it didn't authorize her actions. Walmart then <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/25/local/la-me-0625-walmart-20120625">cut ties</a> with Mercury.</font></li></ul><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==
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<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> koch sock puppets  <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/03/09/149408/koch-wikipedia-sock-puppet/">http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/03/09/149408/koch-wikipedia-sock-puppet/</a></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></div>

<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">see also FOIA, Crypto</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> ---</font></p><h1 class="page-title" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Report savages terrorism 'fusion centers' for high cost, low value</font></h1>

<div class="field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden" style=""><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Oct 02, 2012  <a href="http://cironline.org/reports/report-savages-terrorism-fusion-centers-high-cost-low-value-3919">http://cironline.org/reports/report-savages-terrorism-fusion-centers-high-cost-low-value-3919</a></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">he nation��s vast network of anti-terrorism “fusion centers” for law

enforcement have produced shoddy, untimely and often useless

intelligence reports that have done little to keep the U.S. safer, a

scathing U.S. Senate report concludes.</font></div><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/446073-10-2-12-psi-staff-report-re-fusion-centers.html#" target="_blank">141-page report</a>,

a copy of which was obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting,

identified problems with nearly every significant aspect of the

Department of Homeland Security’s more than 70 fusion centers, which

were designed for law enforcement to coordinate their intelligence

gathering.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The report marks one of the most blistering indictments to date of

the Department of Homeland Security��s domestic intelligence operation.

The department, investigators conclude, “has not attempted to conduct a

comprehensive assessment of the value federal taxpayers have received

for that investment.”</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Fusion centers were created in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001,

attacks as the best way to get local, state and federal officials to

share terrorism-related information, speak with each other and “connect

the dots” of terrorist plots before they happened.</font></p><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/view/" /><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/view/">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/view/</a></font></div></div></div></div>

<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney</font></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. </span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/11/07/BL2005110700793.html" style="text-decoration: initial; padding-right: 13px; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">[22]</a></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/11/07/BL2005110700793.html</font></p><p style="" /><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Cheney's 'Dark Side' Is Showing</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By Dan Froomkin</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Special to washingtonpost.com��</font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Monday, November 7, 2005; 1:21 PM</font></p><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">austin PD infiltrate Occupy gives dragon sleeves so misdemenor boosted to felony charges <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/10/infiltrating_occupy_austin_activists_face_charges">http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/10/infiltrating_occupy_austin_activists_face_charges</a></font>

<span><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">possession of a projector = "criminal instrument"</font></span>

<span><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">undercover drug cop lent to Fusion; jusdge threw out, grand jury sent ot back to ct;  evidence destroyed</font></span>

<span><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">fusion 1st said they gave devices to ensure safety; then said brass did not know; ronnie garza</font></span>

<span><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">provoke group to marginalize, chill or    ; easier to mfg crime than find real ones.(or at least prosecute them)</font></span>

<p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Note the irony here that <b>Heartland Institute</b> – one of the major mouthpieces behind the debunked <a href="http://desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4623">‘Climategate’</a> email theft who harped about the suppression of denier voices in peer-reviewed literature – now defending its turf in the unscientific business magazine realm.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">-Interesting mentions of <b>Andrew Revkin as a potential ally worth “cultivating,” along with Judith Curry</b>.[cf cointelpro atrazine flip attempts]</font></p>

<p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="dquo">“</span>Efforts might also include cultivating more neutral voices with big audiences (such as Revkin at DotEarth/NYTimes, who has a well-known antipathy for some of the more extreme <span class="caps">AGW</span> communicators such as Romm, Trenberth, and Hansen) or Curry (who has become popular with our��supporters).”  mashey</font></p>

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Environmental activist Sharon Wilson showed up to an oil industry event in Houston last week and caught a startling glimpse into how the fracking industry approaches residents in towns where they drill.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Wilson recorded industry insiders confirming they <b>hire military psychological operation veterans</b>, and use procedures pulled straight from the Army's counterinsurgency manual.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The first half of the following slide titles are pulled exactly from the manual's section on ASPECTS OF COUNTERINSURGENCY. The second half is our interpretation of how that directive would be employed in American towns.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The text in the slides is pulled directly from the manual as well, though references to government etc. are put in brackets and changed to [corporation] for context. The corporations are referred to as the counterinsurgency or COIN.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Legitimacy is the Main Objective: Insert the government of choice</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">wikipedia commons</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"The primary objective of any counterinsurgent is to foster the development of effective governance.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">... All [corporations] rule through a combination of consent and coercion. [Corporations] described as “legitimate” rule primarily with the consent of the governed, while those described as ��illegitimate” tend to rely mainly or entirely on coercion.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[Both] Their citizens obey the state for fear of the consequences of doing otherwise, rather than because they voluntarily accept its rule. A [corporation] that derives its powers from the governed tends to be accepted by its citizens as legitimate.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It still uses coercion for example, against criminals—but the bulk of the population voluntarily accepts its governance."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Source: Army FM-34</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Unity of Effort is Essential: Obtain full control of all government agencies</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Unity of effort must pervade every echelon.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">... Ideally a counterinsurgent should have authority over all government agencies involved in operations. However, the best situation that military commanders can generally hope for is to be able to achieve unity of effort through communication and liaison with those responsible for the nonmilitary agencies.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">There are many ... organizations needing coordination. The [local government] must be key players in higher-level planning, while similar connections are needed throughout the chain of command."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Source: Army FM-34</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Understand the Environment: Become friends with the townsfolk</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"The local population is a critical center of gravity of an insurgency.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Successful conduct of counter-insurgency operations depends on thoroughly understanding the society and culture within which they are being conducted.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[Corporate leaders] must understand the following about the population in the area of operations:</font>

<span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">   How key groups in the society are organized.</font></span>

<span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>   Relationships and tensions among </b>them.</font></span>

<span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">   Ideologies and narratives that resonate with the groups.</font></span>

<span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">   Group interests and motivations.</font></span>

<span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">   Means by which groups communicate.</font></span>

<span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">   The society’s leadership system."</font></span>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Source: Army FM-34</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Isolate Insurgents from Their Cause and Support: Initiate legal action to cut protesters financial support</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It is easier to cut an insurgency off and let it die than to kill every insurgent.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Attempting to kill every insurgent is normally impossible.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It can also be counterproductive, generating popular resentment, creating martyrs that motivate new recruits, and producing cycles of revenge. Dynamic insurgencies also replace losses quickly.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">... legal action might be required to limit financial support. As the host government increases its own legitimacy, the people begin to more actively assist it, eventually marginalizing and stigmatizing insurgents to the point where their legitimacy is destroyed.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Victory is gained not when this isolation is achieved, but when it is permanently maintained by and with the active support of the populace."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Source: Army FM-34</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Prepare for a Long-Term Commitment: Settle in and get comfortable, they'll be there 'til the hole runs dry</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"By its nature, insurgency is protracted.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The conduct of counterinsurgency always demands considerable expenditures of time and resources.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Even if people prefer the [corporation] to the insurgents, they do not actively support that [corporation] unless they are convinced the [corporation's] forces have the means, ability, stamina, and will to win.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The insurgent’s primary battle is against the indigenous government, not the [corporation], but [public] support can be crucial to building public faith in that government’s viability.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Insurgents and local populations often believe that a few casualties or a few years will cause the [corporation] to abandon [their] ... effort. Constant reaffirmations of commitment, backed by deeds, can overcome that perception and bolster faith in the steadfastness of [corporate] support."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Source: Army FM-34</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Manage Information and Expectations: Limit discontent and build support</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Information and expectations are related, and both are carefully managed by a skillful counterinsurgent.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">To limit discontent and build support, a host [corporation] and any counterinsurgents assisting it create and maintain a realistic set of expectations among the populace.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Achieving steady progress toward a set of reasonable expectations can increase the population’s tolerance for the inevitable inconveniences entailed by ongoing counterinsurgency operations.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Where large [corporate] forces are present to help establish a regime, such progress can extend the period before an army of liberation becomes perceived as an army of occupation."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Source: Army FM-34</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Use Measured Force: Sometimes there's no other choice but to get physical</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Any use of force generates a series of reactions.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">There may be times when an overwhelming effort is necessary to intimidate an opponent or reassure the populace. But ... An operation that kills five insurgents is counterproductive if the collateral damage or the creation of blood feuds leads to the recruitment of fifty more.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">So effective counterinsurgents understand the character of the local police and popular perceptions of both police and [the corporation]."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Source: Amy FM-34</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Learn and Adapt: Gather informants, create new laws and policies</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"An effective counterinsurgent force is a learning organization.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Insurgents constantly shift between military and political phases and approaches. In addition, networked insurgents constantly exchange information about the [corporation's] vulnerabilities—including with other insurgents in distant theaters.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A skillful counterinsurgent is able to adapt at least as fast as the insurgents. Every unit needs to be able to make observations, draw lessons, apply them, and assess results. Headquarters must develop an effective system to circulate best practices throughout the [corporation] quickly.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[Corporate leaders] might also need to seek new laws or policies to authorize or resource necessary changes. Insurgents will shift their areas of operations looking for weak links, so widespread competence is required throughout the counterinsurgent force."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Source: Army FM-34</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Empower the Lowest Levels: Give every employee involved the ability to make decisions</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Local [employees] have the best grasp of their situations.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Under [corporate] command, they are given access to or control of the assets needed to produce actionable intelligence and manage information operations and civil-military operations. Effective COIN operations are decentralized. [Executives] owe it to their subordinates to push as many capabilities as possible down to their level. [Corporate leadership] encourages subordinates’ initiative within legal limits. It facilitates the learning process that must occur at every level.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[Empowering subordinates] is a major characteristic of a counterinsurgency force that can adapt and react as quickly as the insurgents."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Support the Host Nation: Develop local leaders to maintain corporate policy</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">American forces committed to COIN are there to assist a host government.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"The long-term goal is to leave a host that is capable of standing on its own. In the end, the host nation has to win its own war. Achieving this requires the development of viable local leaders and institutions. [Corporations] can help, but host-nation elements must be able to accept responsibilities to achieve real victory.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While it may be easier for [corporations] to conduct operations themselves, it is better to work to strengthen local forces and then assist them.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Host governments have the final responsibility to solve their own problems."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Yes, US corporations admit to using these tactics on Americans</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Wikimedia Commons</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Check out what fracking insiders say about their psychological operations ></font>

<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/10-counterinsurgncy-tactics-your-local-fracking-corp-will-use-against-you-2011-11?op=1"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">http://www.businessinsider.com/10-counterinsurgncy-tactics-your-local-fracking-corp-will-use-against-you-2011-11?op=1</font></a>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Another told attendees that his company has several former military psychological operations, or “psy ops�� specialists on staff, applying their skills in Pennsylvania. <b><strong>(Click below to hear.)</strong></b></font></p>

<p class="textBodyBlack" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The comments were recorded by an environmental activist, who passed along audio files to CNBC. The activist, Sharon Wilson, is the director of the Oil & Gas Accountability Project for the nonprofit environmental group Earthworks. She said she paid full price to attend the two day event, and wore a nametag identifying her organization as she recorded the conference.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In a session entitled “Designing a Media Relations Strategy To Overcome Concerns Surrounding Hydraulic Fracturing,” <b><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Range Resources communications </span>director Matt Pitzarella</b> spoke about “overcoming stakeholder concerns” about the fracking process.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>“We have several former psy ops folks that work for us at Range</b> because they’re very comfortable in dealing with localized issues and local governments,” Pitzarella said. “Really all they do is spend most of their time helping folks develop local ordinances and things like that. But very much having that understanding of psy ops in the Army and in the Middle East has applied very helpfully here for us in Pennsylvania.”</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">At another session, Matt Carmichael, the manager of external affairs for <b><strong>Anadarko Petroleum <span id="WSODQ_COMPONENT_APC_ID0ESBAC15839609"><span id="span_quote_apc_ID0ESBAC15839609" onmouseover="cnbc_spanTipPopShow('combo_popup_apc_ID0ESBAC15839609',this,'0','15');" onmouseout="cnbc_spanTipPopTimeHide('combo_popup_apc_ID0ESBAC15839609',this,'0','15');" style=" text-decoration: none;"><a onmouseover="this.style.color='#Fc7410'" onmouseout="this.style.color='#004276'" href="http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/apc" class="black_no_change" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><span id="set_quote_apc_ID0ESBAC15839609">[</span><span id="WSODQSTREAMOFF_APC_SYMBOL_1_ID0ESBAC15839609">APC</span>  <span id="WSODQSTREAMOFF_APC_LAST_1_ID0ESBAC15839609">69.68</span>  <span id="WSODQSTREAMOFF_APC_CHANGEARROW_1_ID0ESBAC15839609"><img src="/4c659565-7b95-5d85-ace5-db3d43247a72.gif"/></span>  <span class="green_pos_change" id="WSODQSTREAMOFF_APC_DYNACOLOR0_1_ID0ESBAC15839609"><span id="WSODQSTREAMOFF_APC_CHANGE_1_ID0ESBAC15839609">0.02</span>  <span id="WSODQSTREAMOFF_APC_UNCHHIDE_1_ID0ESBAC15839609" class="WSODQ_CHGSHOW">(<span id="WSODQSTREAMOFF_APC_CHANGEPCT_1_ID0ESBAC15839609">+0.03%</span>)</span></span>   <span><img src="/59da475c-9a1e-57db-a363-96bc2c8926ce.gif"/></span>]</a></span></span></strong></b>, spoke on the topic of “Understanding How Unconventional Oil & Gas Operators are Developing a Comprehensive Media Relations Strategy to Engage Stakeholders and Educate the Public.”</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He said he had several recommendations for the oil industry media professionals at the event, one of which, he said, involved the military.</font>

<b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">��Download the U.S. Army-slash-Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Manual, because we are dealing with an insurgency,” Carmichael said. “There��s a lot of good lessons in there and coming from a military background, I found the insight in that extremely remarkable.”</font></b>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Reached by CNBC to provide context to his remarks about psychological operations, Range Resources�� Matt Pitzarella explained that he was referring to one employee of the firm, whose military background makes him particularly good at handling emotional meetings with local representatives.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Range employs dozens of veterans and active service men and women,” Pitzarella said. “One employee who works with municipal governments in Pennsylvania has a background in psychological operations in the Army. Since the majority of his work is spent in local hearings and developing local regulations for drilling, we’ve found that his service in the Middle East is a real asset.”</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Pitzarella explained that Range operates transparently with local communities, and pointed out that it was the first company in the United States to fully disclose all the fracking fluids that it uses. He also took issue with Carmichael’s comments about using Marine Corps tactics on opponents in an “insurgency.”</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">��That’s not something I think that we would do,” Pitzarella said. “You��re not dealing with insurgents, you’re dealing with regular people who live in towns and want to know what you’re doing.”</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Carmichael emailed a comment to CNBC, explaining his remarks. “The comment was simply suggesting industry embracing a broader move toward more active community engagement and increased transparency, as it’s very important to build fact-based knowledge to maintain public trust amidst special interests that often use misinformation to create fear,” he said.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Wilson, who recorded the remarks, said the comments reveal what the fracking industry thinks about people in the communities that are impacted by the industry.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“What’s clear to me is that are having to use some very extreme measures in out neighborhoods,” she said. “And it seems like they view it as an occupation.”</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">She said she was surprised such military-style techniques would be discussed in an open forum.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">��This was crossing a line — they considered it was on the American people, sort of like they are going in and occupying our land — which is what they are doing,�� Wilson said.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But another attendee saw the remarks differently.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Chris Tucker, a spokesman for the industry group <b>Energy in Depth,</b> said Carmichael’s comments about facing an “insurgency,” were simply meant as a joke.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“There are no black helicopters here,” Tucker said. “No one’s rappelling down from a helicopter at three a.m. looking through people’s trash. We go to township meetings, and we hear what people have to say.”</font>

<h3 style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Government Is Using Its Police Powers to Protect Fracking</font></h3>

<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Fracking is <a title="polluting water all over the country" href="http://www.grist.org/natural-gas/2011-09-14-josh-fox-natural-gas-fracking-documentary-gasland-wins-emmy" target="blank">polluting water all over the country</a>. A new study published in the journal Ground Water predicts that the highly-toxic fluids used in fracking can migrate to aquifers <a target="blank" title="within a few short years" href="http://www.propublica.org/article/new-study-predicts-frack-fluids-can-migrate-to-aquifers-within-years">within a few short years</a>.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The government has <a title="the government has also officially stated that fracking can cause earthquakes" href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/08/its-official-human-activity-can-cause-earthquakes.html"><em>officially</em> stated that fracking can cause earthquakes</a>. And see <a target="blank" title="this" href="http://www2.seismosoc.org/FMPro?-db=Abstract_Submission_12&-sortfield=PresDay&-sortorder=ascending&-sortfield=Special+Session+Name+Calc&-sortorder=ascending&-sortfield=PresTimeSort&-sortorder=ascending&-op=gt&PresStatus=0&-lop=and&-token.1=ShowSession&-token.2=ShowHeading&-recid=224&-format=%2Fmeetings%2F2012%2Fabstracts%2Fsessionabstractdetail.html&-lay=MtgList&-find">this</a>. Some fracking companies now <a target="blank" title="admit" href="http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-07/europe/30368594_1_shale-gas-fracking-process-tremors">admit</a> this fact.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">And yet a <a target="blank" title="new law" href="http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2011&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=1950&pn=3048">new law</a> passed in Pennsylvania will allow doctors to access information about chemicals used in fracking, but will <em>restrict them from sharing that information with their patients</em>. See the writeups by <a target="blank" title="Mother Jones" href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/03/fracking-doctors-gag-pennsylvania">Mother Jones</a> and <a target="_blank" title="Truthout" href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=7323:fracking-pennsylvania-gags-physicians">Truthout</a>.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The director of the Emmy-award winning documentary on fracking – <em>Gasland</em> – was <a target="_blank" title="arrested for attempting to film a Congressional hearing on fracking" href="http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/gasland-filmmaker-arrested-at-capitol-hearing/">arrested for attempting to film a Congressional hearing on fracking</a>.</font>

<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Actor Mark Ruffalo was <a title="put on a terror watch list after he organized showings of Gasland" href="http://blog.sfgate.com/dailydish/2010/11/23/mark-ruffalo-on-terror-advisory-list/#ixzz16GVkAsQR" target="_blank">put on a <em>terror watch list</em> after he organized showings of Gasland</a>. NOPE</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></div>

<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Washington Post reported in March that the FBI is investigating anti-fracking activists as <a target="_blank" title="potential terrorists" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/as-eco-terrorism-wanes-governments-still-target-activist-groups-seen-as-threat/2012/02/28/gIQAA4Ay3R_story.html">potential terrorists</a>.</font>

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/as-eco-terrorism-wanes-governments-still-target-activist-groups-seen-as-threat/2012/02/28/gIQAA4Ay3R_story.html"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/as-eco-terrorism-wanes-governments-still-target-activist-groups-seen-as-threat/2012/02/28/gIQAA4Ay3R_story.html</font></a>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The state of<b> Pennsylvania hired an Israeli-American company with extensive military and intelligence ties to put out “terror” alerts. The company – ITRR – </b><a title="describes" href="http://www.terrorresponse.org/" target="_blank">describes</a> itself as:</font></p>

<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The preeminent Israeli/American security firm providing training, intelligence and education to clients across the globe.</font></p>

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<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ITRR <a title="explains" href="http://www.terrorresponse.org/images/stories/press_room/press_release/The_Institute_of_Terrorism_Research_and_Response_background_information_16Sep2010.pdf" target="_blank">explains</a>:</font></p>

<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <b>Institute of Terrorism Research and Response’</b>s research and analysis center, known as the Targeted Actionable Monitoring Center (TAM-C), is located in Israel. The Targeted Actionable Monitoring Center is staffed with former law enforcement, military, and intelligence professionals experienced in the production and utilization of intelligence products.</font></p>

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<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ITRR <a target="_blank" title="considered" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100926050924/http://www.weny.com/News-Regional.asp?ARTICLE3890=9156026">considered</a> opponents of fracking to be potential terrorists.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Fracking companies are also using <a title="military psychological operations techniques to discredit opponents" href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/45208498" target="blank">military psychological operations techniques to discredit opponents</a> (and <a title="see this" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/10-counterinsurgncy-tactics-your-local-fracking-corp-will-use-against-you-2011-11" target="blank">see this</a>).</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Americans seek international database to carry iris, palm & finger prints] DENT1 was built by the computer technology arm of the US defence company <b><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Northrop_Grumman" title="Northrop Grumman">Northrop Grumman</a></b>. In future it is expected to hold palm prints, facial images and video sequences. A company spokeswoman confirmed that Northrop Grumman had spoken to the FBI about <i>Server in the Sky</i>. <i>"It can run independently but if existing systems are connected up to it then the intelligence agencies would have to approve,"</i> she said.</font>

<div id="bodycount" style=""><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rendell and Ridge: From "Militant" Labelers to Terrorist��Enable</font></strong></div><div style=" clear: both;">

<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In the fall of 2010, while Ed Rendell was <a href="http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/pennsylvania-homeland-security-eco-terror-bulletin/3145/">Governor</a> and<span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"> Tom Ridge was </span><a href="http://marcelluscoalition.org/2010/07/gov-ridge-joins-the-marcellus-shale-coalition-as-strategic-advisor/"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">Strategic Advisor</span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"> of the </span><b><a href="http://marcelluscoalition.org/"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">Marcellus Shale Coalition</span></a></b><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">,</span> the <a href="http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/09/post_122.html">media</a> <a href="http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/09/14/5109591-pennsylvania-tracks-fracking-protestors">discovered</a> that Pennsylvania's Office of Homeland Security (DHS) was <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2010/09/9475/welcome-home-war-pennsylvania-and-marcellus-shale">monitoring</a> and <a href="http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/pennsylvania-intelligence-bulletin-no.-131-aug.-30-2010">filing intelligence reports</a> on citizens speaking out against the then nascent shale gas industry's presence in the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/5401">Marcellus Shale basin</a>. In one bulletin,��PA Homeland Security refers to <a href="http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/pennsylvania-intelligence-bulletin-no.-131-aug.-30-2010">"militants" and "environmental extremists</a>" who dare to question the fossil fuel industry's practices.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">That incident came and went, with��<a href="http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/pennsylvania-homeland-security-eco-terror-bulletin/3145/">many believing it was an isolated incident</a>. It wasn't. <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=7153:fracking-and-psychological-operations-empire-comes-home">Far from it, in fact</a>.</font>

<strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">PSYOPs, Insurgents, and "Eco-Terrorists" in the Marcellus and Eagle Ford</font></strong>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The industry was again caught red-handed in the fall of 2011 when DeSmogBlog, with the help of <em>Earthworks'</em> activist <a href="http://www.texassharon.com/">Sharon Wilson</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/gas-fracking-industry-using-military-psychological-warfare-tactics-and-personnel-u-s-communities">uncovered a bombshell story</a>.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The short version: at an <a href="http://www.media-stakeholder-relations-hydraulic-fracturing.com/">October 2011 Houston, TX conference for shale gas industry public relations professionals</a>, PR flacks for gas industry corporations <b>Range Resources and Anadarko Petroleum</b> Corporation revealed that they <a href="http://www.earthworksaction.org/media/detail/local_anti_gas_drilling_activist_catches_execs_pushing_psyop_to_deal_with_i">utilize <b>psychological warfare</b> tactics on concerned stakeholders</a> in the areas in which they are <a href="http://desmogblog.com/fracking-the-future/">fracking</a>, and that they see themselves fighting a counterinsurgency war against these stakeholders, who in this fight are viewed as "an insurgency."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Then in <a href="http://www.publicherald.org/archives/15283/investigative-reports/uncategorized/">February, <em>The Public Herald</em></a> reported that, during an August 2011 team reporting trip at��<a href="http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/stateforests/tioga/index.htm">Tioga State Forest</a> in Troy, PA, some of its journalists were <span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">accused by Seneca Resources truck drivers as being "<a href="http://www.publicherald.org/archives/15283/investigative-reports/uncategorized/">trespassing eco-terrorists</a>." That's ironic given that <a href="http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/ucmprd2/groups/public/documents/document/D_000881.pdf">Tioga is a <em>public</em> park</a> operated by PA's <a href="http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/index.aspx">Department of Conservation and Natural Resources</a>. Seneca proceded to threaten to detain these journalists without legal authority to do so and also <b>attempted to seize the camera of </b><i><b>The Herald</b></i><b>'s reporting crew. </b></span></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><em>The Herald </em><a href="http://www.publicherald.org/archives/15283/investigative-reports/uncategorized/">stated</a> in response,</font></p>

<blockquote style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"To be labeled as, or even associated with, an ecoterrorist is no small thing…Clearly, a need for government to protect the people within the United States from real acts of aggression or violence has been usurped by private interests when journalists, or the public, can be so easily labeled as 'ecoterrorists.'"</font></blockquote>

<p style="text-align: left;"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">There's more. <b>On February 28, <em>The Washington Post</em> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/as-eco-terrorism-wanes-governments-still-target-activist-groups-seen-as-threat/2012/02/28/gIQAA4Ay3R_print.html">reported</a> that the FBI is labeling anti-fracking activists in Texas' <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7759">Eagle Ford shale basin</a>, in the city of Denton, TX, as "eco-terrorists."</b></font></span>

<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Even as environmental and animal rights extremism in the United States is on the wane, <b>officials at the federal, state and local level are continuing to target groups they have labeled a threat to national security, according to interviews with numerous activists, internal FBI documents and a survey of legislative initiatives across the country," </b><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/as-eco-terrorism-wanes-governments-still-target-activist-groups-seen-as-threat/2012/02/28/gIQAA4Ay3R_print.html"><b>wrote </b><em><b>The Post</b></em></a><b>. </b></font></span>

<strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Hypocrisy Reeks</font></strong>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">An <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency">insurgent</a>, by definition in U.S.��lexicon, is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency#Terrorism">another name for a "terrorist."</a></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While citizens concerned about the impacts from fracking and reckless gas industry practices are being labeled "eco-terrorists" and "an insurgengy," those responsible, directly or indirectly for having them labeled as such, are shilling on behalf of a State Department-designated terrorist organization.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The hypocrisy here reeks any way you slice it.</font></p>

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<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">steve horn</font>

<a href="http://www.nationofchange.org/rendell-and-ridge-militant-labelers-terrorist-enablers-1335453791"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">http://www.nationofchange.org/rendell-and-ridge-militant-labelers-terrorist-enablers-1335453791</font></a>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">maddow <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/154836/rachel_maddow%3A_how_america%27s_security-industrial_complex_went_insane">http://www.alternet.org/story/154836/rachel_maddow%3A_how_america%27s_security-industrial_complex_went_insane</a></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">FBI sent mlk ltr encouraging suicide? dem now 4/20 journalist denied pen during interrogations; no judicial review of email (3rd party can't tell you they turned it over to feds)</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">smith: <img src="/2044a2b9-e405-550d-a79d-999311e74b36.gif"/></font>

<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">��  Surveillance, Harassment and Infiltration. The corporate and government scare-mongering has been used to create a political climate that justifies surveillance and harassment of political advocates. For instance, the FBI is looking for informants to infiltrate vegan potlucks, Joint Terrorism Task Forces are spying on HoneyBaked Ham protestors, and corporations are tracking who activists are dating.</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></div>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">namebase forced offline?  </font>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Amcor" title="Amcor"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Amcor</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Annapolis_Group" title="Annapolis Group"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Annapolis Group</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Anteon_International_Corporation" title="Anteon International Corporation"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Anteon International Corporation</font></a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Beckett_Brown_International" title="Beckett Brown International"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Beckett Brown International</font></a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Chesapeake_Strategies_Group" title="Chesapeake Strategies Group"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Chesapeake Strategies Group</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cyveillance" title="Cyveillance"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Cyveillance</font></a></li>

</ul>

</td><td>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Diplomatic_Tactical_Services" title="Diplomatic Tactical Services"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Diplomatic Tactical Services</font></a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Security_Services" title="Global Security Services"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Global Security Services</font></a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeff_Corkill" title="Jeff Corkill"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Jeff Corkill</font></a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mary_Lou_Sapone" title="Mary Lou Sapone"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Mary Lou Sapone</font></a></li>

<li><span class="redirect-in-category"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mary_McFate" title="Mary McFate"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Mary McFate</font></a></span></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mongoven,Biscoe%26_Duchin" title="Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin</font></a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Perceptions_International" title="Perceptions International"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Perceptions International</font></a></li>

</ul>

</td><td>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Political_intelligence" title="Political intelligence"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Political intelligence</font></a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=R-Techno" title="R-Techno"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">R-Techno</font></a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=S2i_%28Australian_security_company%29" title="S2i (Australian security company)"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">S2i (Australian security company)</font></a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stratfor" title="Stratfor"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Stratfor</font></a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Total_Intelligence_Solutions,_LLC" title="Total Intelligence Solutions, LLC"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Total In</font></a></li>

</ul>

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<h1 class="gb-volume-title" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage</font></h1>

<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> <span class="addmd">By Eamon Javers</span></font>

<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=9svQioaWeDsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Eamon+Javers%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=txvmT6jkBsLY2gXZkeziBA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=inauthor%3A%22Eamon%20Javers%22&f=false"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">http://books.google.com/books?id=9svQioaWeDsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Eamon+Javers%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=txvmT6jkBsLY2gXZkeziBA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=inauthor%3A%22Eamon%20Javers%22&f=false</font></a>

<h1 id="docTitle" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Tinker, tailor, soldier, spywatcher. (Daniel Brandt) (Beltway Bandits) </font></h1>

<div id="docByLine1" style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="OmnitureClick('By-Line Pub Name');var s_objectID='By-LinePubName';" rel="" target="" id="pubByLineLink" class=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Nation</font></a></b></div>

<div id="docByLine2" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">November 7, 1988 | <a href="http://www.highbeam.com/Search?searchTerm=author%3a%22Corn%2c+David%22&orderBy=Date+DESC" onclick="OmnitureClick('By-Line Author');var s_objectID='By-LineAuthor';" rel="nofollow" target="" id="" class="link">Corn, David</a>; <a href="http://www.highbeam.com/Search?searchTerm=author%3a%22Morley%2c+Jefferson%22&orderBy=Date+DESC" onclick="OmnitureClick('By-Line Author');var s_objectID='By-LineAuthor';" rel="nofollow" target="" id="" class="link">Morley, Jefferson</a></font></div>

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<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">brandon darby  the informant (3 doc vids) ltrs and pol 4/20  molotov coctails rep nat convention </font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Stratfor security</b> client list includes koch <a href="http://pastebin.com/8MtFze0s">http://pastebin.com/8MtFze0s</a>  pulled?  http://www.cryptome.org/0005/stratfor-hack.htm</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">NEW YORK -- <b>Undercover NYPD officers attended meetings of liberal political organizations and kept intelligence files on activists who planned protests around the country,</b> according to interviews and documents that show how police have used counterterrorism tactics to monitor even lawful activities.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The infiltration echoes the tactics the NYPD used in the run-up to New York's 2004 Republican National Convention, when police monitored church groups, anti-war organizations and environmental advocates nationwide. That effort was revealed by The New York Times in 2007 and in an ongoing federal civil rights lawsuit over how the NYPD treated convention protesters.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Police said the pre-convention spying was necessary to prepare for the huge, raucous crowds that were headed to the city. But documents obtained by The Associated Press show that the police department's intelligence unit continued to keep close watch on political groups in 2008, long after the convention had passed.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In April 2008, an undercover NYPD officer traveled to New Orleans to attend the People's Summit, a gathering of liberal groups organized around their shared opposition to U.S. economic policy and the effect of trade agreements between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">When the undercover effort was summarized for supervisors, it identified groups opposed to U.S. immigration policy, labor laws and racial profiling. Two activists – Jordan Flaherty, a journalist, and Marisa Franco, a labor organizer for housekeepers and nannies – were mentioned by name in one of the police intelligence reports obtained by the AP....</font>

<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/23/nypd-infiltrated-liberal-political-groups_n_1374823.html?view=print&comm_ref=false"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/23/nypd-infiltrated-liberal-political-groups_n_1374823.html?view=print&comm_ref=false</font></a>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">yippie fbi files: <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/27/massive-fbi-trove-on.html">http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/27/massive-fbi-trove-on.html</a></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1992 greenpeace  <a href="http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/greenspy.html">http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/greenspy.html</a></font>

<a href="http://motherjones.com/print/15506"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">http://motherjones.com/print/15506</font></a>

<h1 class="print-title" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0.2em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Black Ops, Green Groups</font></h1>

<div class="dek" style="text-align: left; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Why did a private security firm spy on Greenpeace and other environmental outfits?</font></div>

<p class="submitted" style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="byline">By <a href="http://motherjones.com/authors/james-ridgeway">James Ridgeway</a></span> | <span class="dateline">Fri Apr. 11, 2008 12:00 AM PDT</span></font></p>

<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A private security company organized and managed by former Secret Service officers spied on Greenpeace and other environmental organizations from the late 1990s through at least 2000, pilfering documents from trash bins, attempting to plant undercover operatives within groups, casing offices, collecting phone records of activists, and penetrating confidential meetings. According to <a href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/082098-Operative-Briefing.pdf">company documents</a> <span class="print-footnote">[1]</span> provided to <em>Mother Jones</em> by a former investor in the firm, this security outfit collected confidential internal records��donor lists, detailed financial statements, the Social Security numbers of staff members, strategy memos—from these organizations and produced intelligence reports for public relations firms and major corporations involved in environmental controversies.</font>

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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Supporting Documents</font></strong></p>

<ul>

<li style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a arget="new" href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/082098-Operative-Briefing.pdf">August 20, 1998 Briefing (PDF)</a> <span class="print-footnote">[1]</span></font></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a target="new" href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Daron-GP-Work-Report.pdf">Daron Work Report (PDF)</a> <span class="print-footnote">[2]</span></font></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a target="new" href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Dioxin-Ketchum-GP-Report.pdf">BBI Report for Ketchum (PDF)</a> <span class="print-footnote">[3]</span></font></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a target="new" href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Dow-Global-Trends-Tracking-Team.pdf">"Dow Global Tracking Team" Report (PDF)</a> <span class="print-footnote">[4]</span></font></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a target="new" href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Florida-Trash-Fax.pdf">Florida PI's Dumpster-Diving Attempt (PDF)</a> <span class="print-footnote">[5]</span></font></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a target="new" href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Glow-In-Dark-Tacos-Emails.pdf">The "Glow-in-The-Dark Tacos" Emails (PDF)</a> <span class="print-footnote">[6]</span></font></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a target="new" href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Handwritten-GP-Door-Codes.pdf">Handwritten Document With Greenpeace Door Codes (PDF)</a> <span class="print-footnote">[7]</span></font></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a target="new" href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Internal%20Report-Sat-Surveillance.pdf">"Sat Surveillance" Outside Fenton's Home (PDF)</a> <span class="print-footnote">[8]</span></font></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a target="new" href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Nestle%20Project.pdf">Nestle Project Billing (PDF)</a> <span class="print-footnote">[9]</span></font></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a target="new" href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Operative-Inquiring.pdf">"Our Operative Should Be Inquiring But Not Participatory" (PDF)</a> <span class="print-footnote">[10]</span></font></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a target="new" href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Possible%20Sites-Addresses.pdf">Possible Target Addresses (PDF)</a> <span class="print-footnote">[11]</span></font></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a target="new" href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Rakowski-Queen-Dumpster-Diving-Memo.pdf">Lawyer Doubts Dumpster-Diving's Legality (PDF)</a> <span class="print-footnote">[12]</span></font></li>

</ul>

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<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In addition to focusing on environmentalists, the firm, <b>Beckett Brown International</b> (later called S2i), provided a range of services to a host of clients. According to its <a href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Daron-GP-Work-Report.pdf">billing records</a> <span class="print-footnote">[2]</span>, BBI engaged in "intelligence collection" for Allied Waste; it conducted background checks and performed due diligence for the Carlyle Group, the Washington-based investment firm; it provided "protective services" for the <b>National Rifle Association</b>; it handled "crisis management" for the Gallo wine company and for Pirelli; it made sure that the Louis Dreyfus Group, the commodities firm, was not being bugged; it engaged in "information collection" for Wal-Mart; it conducted background checks for Patricia Duff, a Democratic Party fundraiser then involved in a divorce with billionaire Ronald Perelman; and for Mary Kay, BBI mounted "surveillance," and vetted Gayle Gaston, a top executive at the cosmetics company (and mother of actress Robin Wright Penn), retaining an expert to conduct a psychological assessment of her. Also listed as clients in BBI records: Halliburton and Monsanto.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">BBI, which was headquartered in Easton, Maryland, on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, worked extensively, according to billing <a href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Dioxin-Ketchum-GP-Report.pdf">records</a> <span class="print-footnote">[3]</span>, for public-relations companies, including <b>Ketchum, Nichols-Dezenhall Communications, and Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin. </b>At the time, these PR outfits were servicing corporate clients fighting environmental organizations opposed to their products or actions. Ketchum, for <a href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Dow-Global-Trends-Tracking-Team.pdf">example</a> <span class="print-footnote">[4]</span>, was working for Dow Chemical and Kraft Foods; Nichols-Dezenhall, according to BBI records, was working with Condea Vista, a chemical manufacturing firm that in 1994 leaked up to 47 million pounds of ethylene dichloride, a suspected carcinogen, into the Calcasieu River in Louisiana.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Like other firms specializing in snooping, Beckett Brown turned to <a href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Florida-Trash-Fax.pdf">garbage swiping</a> <span class="print-footnote">[5]</span> as a key tactic. BBI officials and contractors routinely conducted what the firm referred to as "D-line" operations, in which its operatives would seek access to the trash of a target, with the hope of finding useful documents. One midnight raid targeted Greenpeace. One BBI <a href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Possible%20Sites-Addresses.pdf">document</a> <span class="print-footnote">[11]</span> lists the addresses of several other environmental groups as "possible sites" for operations: the National Environmental Trust, the Center for Food Safety, Environmental Media Services, the <b>Environmental Working Group, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group</b>, and the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, an organization run by <b>Lois Gibbs,</b> famous for exposing the toxic dangers of New York's Love Canal. For its rubbish-rifling operations, BBI employed a police officer in the District of Columbia and a former member of the Maryland state police.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Beckett Brown's efforts to penetrate environmental groups and other targets came to an end when the business essentially dissolved in 2001 amid infighting between the principals. But the firm's officials went on to work in other security firms that remain active today.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Beckett Brown International began when John C. Dodd III met Richard Beckett at a bar in Easton in 1994. Dodd had recently become a millionaire after his father had sold an Anheuser-Busch beer distributorship on Maryland's eastern shore. Beckett ran a local executive recruiting and consulting business. Soon after they met, according to Dodd, Beckett introduced him to Paul Rakowski, a recently retired Secret Service agent, who had put in two decades protecting presidents and foreign heads of state and had become regional manager of the agency's financial crimes division. Rakowski told Dodd he had an idea for a new security business.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Dodd subsequently received a fax of a business plan for the new company. The sender's address at the top of the fax, according to Dodd, read: "11/02/94 USSS Financial Crimes Division/Forgery"—which suggested it had come from a Secret Service office. But Dodd was reluctant to put in the start-up money for the enterprise, because he didn't know who all the partners were. To impress him, Dodd says, Rakowski and his former Secret Service colleagues began taking him and his friends on special tours of the White House. "This wasn't a White House tour conducted by tour guides," he says. "They would take us…to areas that said 'Do not pass this line.'"</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">At one point, Dodd says, a senior Secret Service agent named Joseph Masonis arranged for him to tour a Secret Service facility. "To encourage me to invest in this company," Dodd notes, "they all said 'why not go up to technical security headquarters [of the Secret Service] and you will get an exclusive tour.'…They showed me everything....They were worried about someone flying way up high in a plane, miles from the White House, jumping out of a plane, skydiving, popping the chute and getting on the White House grounds without anybody knowing it. They were working on the technology to pick that up." Dodd says he was blown away by what he saw. (Masonis says, "I have never taken Mr. Dodd to any facility in D.C.") And at a waterfront party, Dodd says, he was introduced to and deeply impressed by George Ferris, a former naval special operations officer and an expert in demolitions.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Eventually, Dodd says, he agreed to be the sole investor of the new firm, and he put up $170,000, the first of what would be several loans at 15 percent interest. (His investment in the firm, Dodd estimates, would grow to a total of $700,000.) The company was officially launched in August 1995, named after Beckett and Sam Brown, a lawyer who helped get it started. Rakowski, Masonis, and Ferris were officials in the firm.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Business was good. In early 1997, Beckett Brown provided security services for Bill Clinton's second inauguration, landing a contract worth nearly $300,000. Early clients also included Phillip Morris, Mary Kay, Browning-Ferris Industries, and Nichols-Dezenhall, a Washington-based firm founded in 1987 by Nick Nichols and Eric Dezenhall that specialized in crisis communications, particularly for corporations involved in biotechnology, product safety, and environmental controversies. BBI provided protection for retired General Norman Schwarzkopf, Dodd says, and there was talk it might also get a job to guard the Rolling Stones.</font></p>

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<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By 1998, BBI had 22 employees working in five different divisions, along with subcontractors that it hired as operatives. The company also looked abroad for new opportunities and recruited more law enforcement and intelligence veterans. David Bresett, a former chief of the Secret Service's foreign intelligence branch, joined the firm as a vice president. (A company biography noted that Bresett, while detailed to the CIA, had directed the investigation that identified the terrorists who blew up Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988.) The firm retained Vincent Cannistraro, a former chief of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, and earlier one of the government officials responsible for overseeing U.S. support of the Nicaraguan contras, as a consultant at $75,000 a year. "I did due diligence on a couple of customers," Cannistraro recalls. On the advice of Cannistraro and Bresett, BBI turned down a $1 million job with the Church of Scientology, according to Dodd. (Bresett did not respond to a message asking for comment.) At one point, an employee named <a target="new" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/6/40/a15"> Tim Ward</a> <span class="print-footnote">[13]</span>, who had been a sergeant in the Maryland state police, traveled to Saudi Arabia for the company, according to Dodd.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Phil Giraldi, a former CIA officer, was also on the payroll. According to Giraldi, there was not a lot of work for him and Cannistraro. "We would go to a company like Enron and see if they had any issues if they were looking to acquire a company," he recalled. "See if the [company to be acquired] is connected to the Russia mob. That's what we were selling. We were not very successful." Giraldi left the firm in 1999. By then, he had become aware of the firm's more unconventional activities: "Scooping garbage, trying to get penetrations of companies and environmental groups. I didn't know a lot of the details." But, he says, he knew BBI was "working on Greenpeace."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2000, the firm—which had changed its name to S2i after Richard Beckett left the company—was targeting a group of activist organizations opposed to genetically engineered food that had formed a coalition called GE Food Alert. In the fall of 2000, with these groups poised to assail Taco Bell, S2i operatives got on the case.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Their thoughts soon turned to garbage.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On September 26, Jay Bly, a former Secret Service agent working for S2i, sent an <a href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Glow-In-Dark-Tacos-Emails.pdf">email</a> <span class="print-footnote">[6]</span> to Tim Ward, the former Maryland state trooper on the payroll:</font></p>

<blockquote style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Received a call from Ketchum yesterday afternoon re three sites in DC. It seems Taco Bell turned out some product made from bioengineered corn. The chemicals used on the corn have not been approved for human consumption. Hence Taco Bell produced potential glow-in-the-dark tacos. Taco Bell is owned by Kraft. The Ketchum Office, New York, has the ball. They suspect the initiative is being generated from one of three places:</font></blockquote>

<blockquote style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1.Center for Food Safety, 7th & Penn SE</font></blockquote>

<blockquote style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2.Friends of the Earth, 1025 Vermont Ave (Between K & L Streets)</font></blockquote>

<blockquote style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">3.GE Food Alert, 1200 18th St NW (18th & M)</font></blockquote>

<blockquote style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">#1 is located on 3rd floor. Main entrance is key card. Alley is locked by iron gates. 7 dempsters [sic] in alley—take your pick.</font></blockquote>

<blockquote style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">#2 is in the same building as Chile Embassy. Armed guard in lobby & cameras everywhere. There is a dumpster in the alley behind the building. Don't know if it is tied to bldg. or a neighborhood property. Cameras everywhere.</font></blockquote>

<blockquote style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">#3 is doable but behind locked iron gates at rear of bldg.</font></blockquote>

<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In this email, Bly explained the urgency and the goal: "Apparently there is an article or press release due out next week and [Ketchum] would like some pre release information." He then turned practical: "I want to send Sarah [another BBI employee] to site #1 for a job inquiry. She can see how big the offices are and get the lay of the land. Maybe this will narrow the field. If they have a job opening could she work there for two or three days to find out what's going on?" The Friends of the Earth site, he noted, would be tougher to penetrate. As for the garbage of <b>GE Food Alert,</b> Bly had a plan: "if we can get some help from our friends who ride the truck. The alley is tight. I think the truck can drive down the alley but the container probably is rolled out and dumped. Looks like one dumpster for the building. I'm sitting on the building at 4:00 am tomorrow morning (if Ketchum gives us a budget)." And Bly noted that there were other possible opportunities: "we have found some other affiliates with the above groups. We are looking for their locations in [Washington, D.C.] and hopefully a more S2i friendly site."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The following day, Bly emailed Ward about his early morning surveillance:</font></p>

<blockquote style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Re: Dumpster Dive.</font></blockquote>

<blockquote style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">I got hold of Jim Daron [a Washington police officer working for BBI] yesterday. He was supposed to do Vermont Ave and Penn Ave SE last night. I have not heard from him today—what's new. I did 18th St. Weard [sic] set up—the dumpster is behind locked gates. The truck drives down the alley and rings for the night guard to open the gate. The guard comes out, unlocks and goes back into the building (probably pissed off because they woke him up), the guys walk the bags out to the truck one at a time. When they finish they locked the gate behind them. There was so much trash they had to compact the truck two times while they were there. I did not find anything from the 5th floor, but the good news is it's doable.</font></blockquote>

<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On September 28,Ward responded:</font></p>

<blockquote style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Good news! Think that once Jim [Daron] calls you back we will know where we stand. If he can't get in with the shield, it will be difficult at sight #1. I think #2 we can do regardless. The issue is a hot one in general. I've been following it from here. Don't forget our GP [Greenpeace] boy in Baltimore has been handling the work for GP. It may be worth a check in the city. Maybe one of our BPD [Baltimore Police Department] guys can hit that one. When you talk with the client push the fact that their client (the cheese people)…should put together a trend tracking program for the future. The anti's now have found an exposed corporate target and they will be back for more blood.</font></blockquote>

<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This email appears to suggests that the Beckett Brown operatives were considering using a Washington police officer's badge to gain access to the garbage of the Center for Food Safety. And Ward was apparently hoping that Beckett Brown could persuade Ketchum to hire the company to monitor the ongoing activity of the activists opposed to genetically-engineered food.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">These emails do not indicate whether Beckett Brown succeeded in scooping valuable intelligence from the garbage at these three sites. But Beckett Brown had already managed to penetrate the anti-GE food network. In a 1999 report to Ketchum—entitled "Intelligence Analysis for Dow Global Trends Tracking Team" —<b>BBI described in detail a strategy session held by 35 representatives of various environmental groups,</b> including the Sierra Club, US PIRG, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. The report noted the targets the coalition was considering (Monsanto, DuPont, Dow, the Grocery Manufacturers of America) and listed various tactics the group had discussed. Such strategy meetings of this coalition were confidential, according to Dale Wiehoff of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Neither Bly nor Ward would discuss this series of emails or any of the work they did for Beckett Brown or S2i. "Legally, I can't tell you anything about what the company did," Ward says. He accuses Dodd of trying to "besmirch the names of the people involved" in the company. Rakowski, Daron, and Beckett did not reply to requests for comments. Nor did Ketchum. A spokesman for Kraft says, "After a review of our historical procurement files, we have no record of work on or about Sept. 26, 2000, with either Ketchum, Beckett Brown International or S2i. In the late '90s, Ketchum provided some PR services to Kraft for one of our coffee brands. However, Ketchum does not currently provide PR services to Kraft and has not done so for many years."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Time and again, according to Beckett Brown records, the firm looked to trash for intelligence. These trash runs at one point did raise concern within the company. In 1998, David Queen, a senior vice president, sent Rakowski a memo about "dumpster diving." Queen, a former deputy assistant secretary of the treasury and once a U.S. attorney in Pennsylvania, noted that in certain instances searching trash could raise "some troublesome issues," including possible violation of state trespass laws and "possible violation of trade secrets laws." He concluded, "If BBI expects to use this method of information gathering, it would be prudent to get the opinion of outside counsel which could be relied upon by BBI should there be future litigation directed against BBI."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Whether or not BBI sought counsel, the dumpster diving continued. In November 1999, according to company documents, Jay Bly traveled to St. Augustine, Florida, to meet with a private detective. He told the investigator that BBI wanted to obtain garbage from the offices of Whetstone Chocolates, a locally based candy manufacturer. (According to BBI billing <a href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Nestle%20Project.pdf">records</a> <span class="print-footnote">[9]</span>, BBI at the time was working for Nichols-Dezenhall on a "Nestle Project-Florida." At press time, Nestle had not responded to a request for comment.) This private investigator and another local gumshoe then tracked the garbage men who made pick-ups at Whetstone and tried to persuade one of the drivers to turn over the trash from Whetstone. The trash collectors wouldn't cooperate. A month later, another private investigator apparently attempted to grab the garbage himself. He sent Bly a fax reporting, "We made a pickup run on December 23,1999 as requested. We were unable to enter the area where the dumpster is located as there appeared to [be] a company party taking place in the break area located in front of the dumpster. We remained in the area for a short time, however, the party continued and we departed the area." A December 1, 1999, BBI briefing paper on a "Nichols-Dezenhall/St. Augustine Project" reported on activities within Whetstone and said that "BBI now has operative in place."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Eric Dezenhall says that he cannot identify clients or vendors with which his firm worked. But he notes in an email that he never saw the briefing paper referring to a BBI operative and Whetstone and that "we would not have been involved in any infiltration operation." He adds, "Nichols-Dezenhall Communications never authorized, directed, or was informed of unethical or illegal activities by forensic investigators employed on any project we have worked on. With regard to our work on matters in which we were teamed with investigators, we are aware only of information-gathering through public records checks and other legitimate means." Dezenhall says that "any use of an 'operative' to infiltrate a company…would be counter to our business interests and any information gathered in that manner would be unusable in court." (In 2003, Dezenhall bought out Nichols and renamed the company Dezenhall Resources. "Our client base and employees from the 1990s have turned over almost entirely," Dezenhall says. According to a source familiar with the firm's current operations, the company has moved away from handling corporations involved in environmental controversies.) Another target of BBI's trash men was Fenton Communications, the liberal PR firm headed by David Fenton that for years has assisted environmental causes. On December 8, 1999, a BBI operative, according to an <a href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Internal%20Report-Sat-Surveillance.pdf">internal report</a> <span class="print-footnote">[8]</span>, "sat surveillance" at Fenton's Washington home, beginning at 2:50 am. In the report, the operative noted the time of the morning garbage pick-up and that he returned to the office to "sort material" and "analyze." BBI ran background checks on both Fenton and his then-wife. The company's files contained photographs of their house as well as client lists, billing information, and personnel information from Fenton Communications. Between July 1998 and February 2001, Fenton says, his firm experienced several break-ins, during which boxes of files and two laptops were stolen. The culprits were never caught.</font></p>

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<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Greenpeace</b> was the target of one of BBI's more elaborate��and cinematic—intelligence-gathering efforts, according to <a href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Operative-Inquiring.pdf">company documents</a> <span class="print-footnote">[10]</span> and an interview with an eyewitness. Jennifer Trapnell, who was dating Ward in the late 1990s, recalls an evening when she accompanied Ward on a job in Washington D.C. "He said they were trying to get some stuff on Greenpeace," she says. Ward wore black clothes and had told her to dress all in black, too: "It was <em>Mission Impossible</em>-like." In Washington, Ward parked his truck in an alley, she remembers, and told her to stay in the truck and keep a lookout. In the alley, he met a couple of other men, whose faces Trapnell did not see clearly. Ward was talking on a walkie-talkie with others, and they all walked off. About an hour later, the men came back and placed two trash bags in Ward's car. Trapnell says she didn't know what they did with the bags—and Ward never explained. In addition to Ward's work, on several occasions in 2000, Jim Daron, the Washington cop who also worked for BBI, submitted reports to BBI for surveillance of Greenpeace's offices.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">BBI gathered numerous internal Greenpeace documents, including financial reports. It also obtained the instructions for using the security system at Greenpeace's offices. And the Greenpeace files at BBI included a handwritten document that appears to record attempts to crack the security codes on entry doors with notations such as "codes do not match" and "open."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">BBI prepared reports on Greenpeace—based on "confidential sources"—for Ketchum. In at least one case, according to Rick Hind, legislative director for Greenpeace (who reviewed these reports at <em>Mother Jones</em>' request), a BBI report written for Ketchum contained information tightly held within the group about planned upcoming events. And a December 2, 1999 BBI report (which does not mention Ketchum) noted that Greenpeace had chosen Kellogg's, Kraft, and Quaker as "their main targets in the GE campaign," that it was developing a campaign tactic called "Food-Aid Expose" (which would highlight the export of genetically-modified foods to other countries), and that it was helping a <em>Wall Street Journal</em> reporter track food companies involved in the debate over genetically-engineered foods.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Over the years, Greenpeace has repeatedly been the target of public relations firms working for industry, and the group has experienced burglaries and caught would-be spies posing as students seeking employment</b>. But Greenpeace officials say they did not know that their organization was under surveillance during that period of time.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In the late 1990s, Greenpeace was working with environmental groups in the stretch of <b>Louisiana dubbed "Cancer Alley,</b>" organizing against various forms of industry pollution. Its work there and that of its Louisiana partners became another target for BBI. In 1998, according to BBI emails, correspondence, and records, BBI retained Mary Lou Sapone, a self-described "research consultant," who recruited a paid operative in Louisiana to infiltrate an environmental group called CLEAN. Sapone had something of a talent for infiltrating activist groups. In the late 1980s, working for a security firm called <b>Perceptions International</b>, which was, in turn, working for the U.S. Surgical Corporation, she penetrated a Connecticut-based animal-rights group, gathering evidence on an activist who would later serve jail time for planting a pipe bomb near the parking space of the company's CEO. The activist would eventually accused Sapone of coaxing her into the plot.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Sapone's</b> operative in Louisiana relayed to her information on what the local enviros were planning, provided gossip on the internal rivalries, and identified the scientists aiding the groups. She passed the intelligence to BBI. In an August 20, 1998 "client briefing," BBI boasted that "our operative is being nominated to the citizen action panels for local industries" and it asked which local industry Condea Vista, the chemical manufacturing firm, would prefer the operative to focus on. (The previous year, Condea Vista had lost a lawsuit brought by the residents of Lake Charles, Louisiana, against the company for the 1994 ethylene dichloride leak and had been slapped with a $7 million judgment.) Another BBI document noted, "The operative has been trained to be inquiring, but not participatory. Operatives are not allowed to offer suggestions or `help' targets in any way. They are trained to seek documents, ID friends and foe legislators and regulators, follow money trails, ID informants, discover future targets."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">BBI produced detailed confidential reports for Ketchum on the environmental activism underway in Louisiana. And BBI records indicate that the firm worked for Nichols-Dezenhall on a "Condea Vista Project." Citing "strict confidentiality agreements," Dezenhall will not say whether his firm worked with Condea Vista (or any other company), but he notes in an email, "It would be extremely damaging and wrong…to interpret or portray the term 'operative,' a generic term often used by investigators and former law enforcement types to mean an individual, as implying someone necessarily engaged in illicit actions such as corporate espionage." (Sapone did not respond to a message requesting comment.)</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Penetrating a citizens group was not a new endeavor for BBI. In 1996 and 1997 in northern California, where Browning-Ferris Industries was engaged in a battle over the future of a garbage dump, BBI conducted what its records labeled "covert monitoring" and "intelligence gathering" on the North Valley Coalition, a citizens group opposed to the Browning-Ferris project. In September 1997, BBI received a payment of $198,881.05 from BFI.</font></p>

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<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">BBI fell apart in 2001 amid arguments over the company's finances. "It was not a happy company," says Phil Giraldi, the ex-CIA man who had worked there, adding, "I have worked for a number of security companies. Some are ethical, some are not. Beckett Brown was not especially so." When the company was collapsing, Dodd says, he heard that document shredding was underway in its offices, and one weekend he went to the offices and carted off scores of cartons stuffed with records.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">BBI's demise led to a lawsuit. Dodd sued Rakowski, Ward, Bly and two others, claiming they had engaged in fraud. In a pretrial statement, Dodd accused them of having "dipped into the Company's coffers for generous salaries, commissions, bonuses, loans, benefits and unsupported expense reimbursements, all the while presenting false and misleading financial information" to Dodd. In 2005, after a month-long trial in Maryland's Talbot County Circuit Court, Dodd lost. He now was out the $700,000 he had invested in the company. By his own estimate, he had spent over a million dollars in legal fees. And he was mad. He claims that he only learned of the firm's sleazier actions after the company imploded and that his lawyers encouraged him not to raise that issue as part of his lawsuit. But after the trial was done, Dodd began contacting some of BBI's targets and shared its records with them. "I wanted the facts to come out," he says. "I feel terrible that my money was used to screw these people over."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Today, boxes and boxes of BBI <a href="http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Possible%20Sites-Addresses.pdf">records</a> <span class="print-footnote">[11]</span> sit in warehouse space Dodd rents. Dodd has not gone through all of the material. (The records include internal and confidential financial reports of a local bank that had been the subject of a takeover.) Much of what BBI did remains a mystery to Dodd. A law firm representing the Mars candy corporation pored over all the records, according to Dodd and his lawyer, apparently in search of evidence that Mars had been the target of corporate espionage. (The files contain records indicating that BBI obtained information on the phone calls made by a PR man working with Mars.) Then Dodd heard nothing further from this law firm. Dodd says he would be delighted to testify before Congress about BBI—but no one has invited him to do so.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As for BBI's principals, they are still operating. Tim Ward now runs a security firm called Chesapeake Strategies, which bills itself as "a multinational security and investigative firm comprised of professionals with extensive security experience." Jay Bly works there. Its website boasts that it maintains affiliated offices in Paris, Beijng, Tokyo, Qatar, and Kuwait and that "many team members continue to hold Secret and Top Secret government security clearances." The firm has been active in protecting research facilities from animal-rights activists. In 2002, it won a contract from the General Services Administration "for recreational, hospitality, law enforcement, facilities, industrial and environmental services and products." It was listed on a 2005 line-up of Defense Department contractors. "I don't have any comment about what I am currently doing or what I plan to do," Ward says.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Joseph Masonis works for the Annapolis Group, a security firm. Its website notes that the company's managing directors "have over forty-five years of combined experience with the United States Secret Service." Paul Rakowski married Amy DiGeso, who was CEO of Mary Kay when BBI worked for the cosmetics firm. (Currently, she is a top executive at Estee Lauder.) Rakowski's current occupation—if he has one—is not publicly known.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Richard Beckett is now CEO of Maryland-based Global Security Services, which, according to its website, offers clients a "suite of business solutions" that includes "intelligence services," "disaster management," "information systems security," and "paramilitary operations." Last year, his firm provided bodyguards to Senator Barack Obama.</font></p>

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<p style="" /><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Links:</font></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[1] http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/082098-Operative-Briefing.pdf</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[2] http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Daron-GP-Work-Report.pdf</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[3] http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Dioxin-Ketchum-GP-Report.pdf</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[4] http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Dow-Global-Trends-Tracking-Team.pdf</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[5] http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Florida-Trash-Fax.pdf</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[6] http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Glow-In-Dark-Tacos-Emails.pdf</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[7] http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Handwritten-GP-Door-Codes.pdf</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[8] http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Internal%20Report-Sat-Surveillance.pdf</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[9] http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Nestle%20Project.pdf</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[10] http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Operative-Inquiring.pdf</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[11] http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Possible%20Sites-Addresses.pdf</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[12] http://motherjones.com/files/legacy/news/feature/2008/04/Rakowski-Queen-Dumpster-Diving-Memo.pdf</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[13] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/6/40/a15</font></div>

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<font face="Times New Roman"><b>COINTELPRO</b> (an acronym for <b>Co</b>unter <b>Intel</b>ligence <b>Pro</b>gram) was a series of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_operation" title="Covert operation">covert</a>, and often illegal,<sup id="cite_ref-church-final-report_1-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#cite_note-church-final-report-1"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup> projects conducted by the United States <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a> (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_organizations" title="Political organizations" class="mw-redirect">political organizations</a>.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman">The FBI has used covert operations against domestic political groups since its inception; however, covert operations under the official COINTELPRO label took place between 1956 and 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-churchill-vanderwall-1990a_2-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#cite_note-churchill-vanderwall-1990a-2"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup> COINTELPRO tactics included discrediting targets through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and illegal violence, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination" title="Assassination">assassination</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-icdc.com_3-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#cite_note-icdc.com-3"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FBI_Secrets_1995_4-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#cite_note-FBI_Secrets_1995-4"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-itsabouttimebpp.com_5-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#cite_note-itsabouttimebpp.com-5"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a></sup> The FBI's stated motivation was "protecting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security" title="National security">national security</a>, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#cite_note-6"><span>[</span>7<span>]</span></a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman">FBI records show that 85% of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed "subversive,"<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#cite_note-7"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a></sup> including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communist</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialist</a> organizations; organizations and individuals associated with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">civil rights movement</a>, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,Jr." title="Martin Luther King, Jr.">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a> and others associated with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference" title="Southern Christian Leadership Conference">Southern Christian Leadership Conference</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People" title="National Association for the Advancement of Colored People">National Association for the Advancement of Colored People</a>, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Racial_Equality" title="Congress of Racial Equality">Congress of Racial Equality</a> and other civil rights organizations; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_nationalism" title="Black nationalism">black nationalist</a> groups; the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Movement" title="American Indian Movement">American Indian Movement</a>; a broad range of organizations labeled "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left" title="New Left">New Left</a>", including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society%281960_organization%29" title="Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)" class="mw-redirect">Students for a Democratic Society</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_%28organization%29" title="Weatherman (organization)" class="mw-redirect">Weathermen</a>; almost all groups protesting the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation; the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lawyers_Guild" title="National Lawyers Guild">National Lawyers Guild</a>; organizations and individuals associated with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_rights" title="Women's rights">women's rights</a> movement; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Ireland" title="United Ireland">United Ireland</a>, and Cuban exile movements including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Bosch" title="Orlando Bosch">Orlando Bosch</a>'s Cuban Power and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Nationalist_Movement" title="Cuban Nationalist Movement" class="mw-redirect">Cuban Nationalist Movement</a>; and additional notable Americans—even <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#cite_note-8"><span>[</span>9<span>]</span></a></sup> The remaining 15% of COINTELPRO resources were expended to marginalize and subvert "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacy" title="White supremacy">white</a> hate groups," including the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_States%27_Rights_Party" title="National States' Rights Party">National States' Rights Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#cite_note-9"><span>[</span>10<span>]</span></a></sup></font>

<p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_the_Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation">FBI Director</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover" title="J. Edgar Hoover">J. Edgar Hoover</a> issued directives governing COINTELPRO, ordering FBI agents to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" the activities of these movements and their leaders.<sup id="cite_ref-WRH_10-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#cite_note-WRH-10"><span>[</span>11<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pbsco_11-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#cite_note-pbsco-11"><span>[</span>12<span>]</span></a></sup></font></p>

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">chip b greenpeace excerpt:</font>

<b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Assorted Sordid Pasts</font></b>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Most documented information about government harassment of social change activists came to light in the 1970's following a series of Congressional hearings which took a critical look at the FBI, CIA, military intellignce, federal agencies and the private security industry.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The most sensational revelations revolved around the FBI's Counterintelligence Program or COINTELPRO in Bureau jargon. In its final report, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities, often called the Church Committee, concluded:</font>

<b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"COINTELPRO [was] a series of covert action programs directed against domestic groups....Many of the techniques used would be intolerable in a democratic society even if all of the targets had been involved in violent activity, but COINTELPRO went far beyond that...the Bureau conducted a sophisticated vigilante operation aimed squarely at preventing the exercise of First Amendment rights of speech and association, on the theory that preventing the growth of dangerous groups and the propagation of dangerous ideas would protect the national security and deter violence."</font></b>

<b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The COINTELPRO operations targetted political groups calling for social change, including civil rights and antiwar activists, civil liberties advocates, radicals, feminists, even food co-ops and health clinics. The<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"> Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King</span> was a major target in a campaign that included anonymous threatening letters and attempts to scare away his funders. In one ten year period starting in 1966, the FBI employed over 5,000 secret informers in Chicago alone.</font></b>

<b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">According to Glick, a review of the 2,370 officially approved COINTELPRO operations admitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee shows four main techniques: infiltration, psychological warfare from the outside, harassment through the legal system, and extralegal force and violence. In the latter category falls the sinister collaboration between the FBI and right-wing vigilante groups. For instance, in Chicago the FBI and local police worked with the Legion of Justice, a rightist group that burglarized offices of antiwar activists. In San Diego the FBI hid the weapon used by a Secret Army Organization sniper in a shooting incident directed at a local activist professor which resulted in a woman being injured by a stray bullet.</font></b>

<b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The revelations of the Church Committee, the Watergate scandal and other [exposes] led to the passage of some valuable but limited reforms that briefly curtailed the abuses of the intelligence agencies. But along with the election of Ronald Reagan to the Presidency came a concerted and successful attempt by the intelligence agencies to abolish the reforms which had restrained them during the late 1970's. The early 1980's also saw tremendous growth in the private security industry coupled with an Executive Order signed by President Reagan authorizing the contracting of intelligence investigations to private firms outside the reach of Congressional oversight and laws protecting privacy.</font></b>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The FBI and other agencies also redefined the terms "terrorism" and "foreign intelligence" to reflect a broad and self-serving interpretation; and then argued their investigations into social change groups met the terms of specific <b>legal language</b> allowing the FBI greater investigative latitude in probes involving political violence and foreign spying. The result was that by 1983, FBI agents and private security specialists had launched broad intrusions into the lives of ordinary citizens engaged in otherwise legal activities.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Ross Gelbspan is the author of a forthcoming book on the <b>FBI's campaign from 1981 to 1985 against groups critical of U.S. policy in Central America.</b> Gelbspan says "While the FBI conducts legitimate criminal investigations, its carrying out of unauthorized politically-motivated police activity is more than just history." For proof, Gelbspan (a veteran Boston Globe reporter who helped pen a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative series) points to documents obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act, lawsuits, and Congressional hearings which show that in an FBI probe of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador <b>(CISPES),</b> "the FBI took at face value allegations by right-wing security specialists that members of (CISPES) were terrorists or foreign agents."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The FBI probe of CISPES moved beyond surveillance to attacks on CISPES, its members and allies. Thousands of citiens were referenced in secret dossiers. The FBI also used the services of right-wing sleuths including a network of conservative campus activists who attended meetings and then submitted reports to the FBI. "The CISPES probe by the FBI was not an aberration by a handful of field agents," says Gelbspan refuting widely published reports. "It was clearly approved at the highest levels of the Bureau and was apprently sanctioned by the NSC and the White House."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Looking at the CISPES investigation in light of other political investigations dating back to the 1950's, one gets the distinct impression that the FBI sees its mandate as neutralizing or disabling every political movement that has the potential for bringing about significant changes in the American political system," argues Gelbspan.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Kit Gage, the Washington representative of the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation (NCARL) agrees with Gelbspan. "We know first hand the kind of havoc the FBI can wreak on a group exercising its First Amendment rights," says Gage who has leafed through FBI files recording "38 years of surveillance on NCARL and its predecessors which produced 130,000 pages of files but not one criminal conviction." What is well documented "is an incredible amount of harassment and disruption of our organization," Gage charges. "Since the FBI seems unable to regulate itself," says Gage, "NCARL is currently seeking legal remedies in the form of legislation that would limit FBI investigations solely to criminal activity." Hundreds of law school professors have endorsed NCARL's proposed legislation.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Meanwhile, surveillance and disruption continue to hamstring activists. At the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, the Movement Support Network (MSN) maintains a list of suspicious incidents called in by groups around the country. According to MSN coordinator Jinsoo Kim, "since 1984 there have been over 300 suspicious incidents including 150 unexplained break-ins" where usually files are rifled but expensive office equipment not stolen. Suspicions point to an ad-hoc alliance of FBI agents and informants, other government investigators, far right vigilantes, and private security sleuths who trade information and justify their actions in the name of national security and fighting terrorism.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The zealousness of these snoops can lead them to break the law in pursuit of their quarry. <b>Earth First </b>activist Dave Foreman says his unfortunately intimate knowledge of FBI informant-provocateurs leads him to not rule out the possibility that the California bombing incident was the result of a covert operation....a charge that reflects an accurate historical awareness of how far some agents are willing to go in an attempt to trap their target.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">An example of this involved Connecticut<b> animal rights </b>activist Fran Trutt, charged with attempting to plant a bomb she says was meant to scare an offical of the U.S. Surgical Corporation which uses animals for medical tests and sales demonstrations. Her accomplices, not charged with any crime, turned out to be private security agents hired by U.S. Surgical. Trutt's attorney, John Williams, says there is "absolutely no question that Trutt was enticed" into considering the bombing by agents from <b>Perceptions International.</b>" Furthermore, several months prior to the attempted bombing, according to Williams "the entire situation was reviewed at a meeting that included representatives of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Connecticut States Attorney's office, the security director of U.S. Surgical and at least one representative of Perceptions International...and the topic of the meeting was Fran Trutt."</font>

<div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Published on DeSmogBlog (http://www.desmogblog.com)</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Home > Blogs > Brendan DeMelle's blog > Gas Fracking Industry Using Military Psychological Warfare Tactics and Personnel In U.S. Communities</font></div>

<b style="" /><div style="text-align: left;"><b style=""><b style=""><b style=""><b style=""><b style=""><b style=""><b style=""><b style=""><b style=""><b style=""><b style=""><b style=""><b style=""><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Gas Fracking Industry Using Military Psychological Warfare Tactics and Personnel In U.S. Communities</font></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By Brendan DeMelle</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Created 2011-11-09 14:12</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Brendan DeMelle [1]</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">9 November 11</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Gas Fracking Industry Using Military Psychological Warfare Tactics and Personnel In U.S. Communities [2]</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">James Cannon Psyops Range Resources.png [6]</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">At the “Media & Stakeholder Relations: Hydraulic Fracturing Initiative 2011 [7]�� conference last week in Houston, Matt Pitzarella, Director of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs at Range Resources, revealed in his presentation [8] that Range has hired Army and Marine veterans with combat experience in psychological warfare to influence communities in which Range drills for gas. </font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As CNBC reported [9], Range spokesman Matt Pitzarella boasted to the audience:</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    “[“…looking to other industries, in this case, the Army and the Marines. We have several former PSYOPs folks that work for us at Range because they’re very comfortable in dealing with localized issues and local governments. Really all they do is spend most of their time helping folks develop local ordinances and things like that. But very much having that understanding of PSYOPs in the Army and in the Middle East has applied very helpfully here for us in Pennsylvania.”</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    [Listen: MP3 [10]]</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">At that same conference, Matt Carmichael [11], External Affairs Manager at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, suggested three things to attendees during his presentation:</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    “If you are a PR representative in this industry in this room today, I recommend you do three things. These are three things that I’ve read recently that are pretty interesting.</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    “(1) Download the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Manual [audible gasps from the audience], because we are dealing with an insurgency. There’s a lot of good lessons in there, and coming from a military background, I found the insight in that extremely remarkable. (2) With that said, there’s a course provided by Harvard and MIT twice a year, and it��s called ‘Dealing With an Angry Public.’ Take that course. Tied back to the Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency [Field] Manual, is that a lot of the officers in our military are attending this course. It gives you the tools, it gives you the media tools on how to deal with a lot of the controversy that we as an industry are dealing with. (3) Thirdly, I have a copy of “Rumsfeld's Rules.” You’re all familiar with Donald Rumsfeld — that’s kind of my bible, by the way, of how I operate.��</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    [Listen: MP3 [12]]</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Carmichael is also the former Senior Manager of External Communications for <b>Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) [13], a subsidiary of Halliburton</b>, which at one point had over 15,000 mercenaries placed in Iraq, according to the Los Angeles Times [14]. </font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Counterinsurgency (COIN) Field Manual [15] [PDF] devotes an entire chapter to PSYOPs, confirming its utility as a major element of a counterinsurgency campaign. The COIN manual is the current U.S. military doctrine in both Iraq and Afghanistan.</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">USE OF PSYOPs PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE ON U.S. CITIZENS IS ILLEGAL</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">PSYOPs is the military short-hand for “psychological operations,” used extensively in U.S. wars abroad, including in Iraq [16] and Afghanistan [17].  Much of this work is carried out by Army reserve personnel, who travel from village to village dropping leaflets and offering financial incentives in an attempt to convince residents not to support the insurgency.  This often entails using psychological tactics to "win hearts and minds."</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [18] reported about PSYOPs in Iraq:</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    "…reservists in psychological operations typically do communications with the local folks. In the beginning, they distribute millions of leaflets and do loudspeaker broadcasts. They also spend a lot of time talking with people."</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The use of PSYOPs by active military personnel on U.S. citizens is illegal and a violation of the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 [19], as Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone explained [20] in his February 2011 investigative story uncovering the fact that U.S. military generals had used PSYOPs on members of Congress. The Smith-Mundt act “was passed by Congress to prevent the State Department from using Soviet-style propaganda techniques on U.S. citizens.��</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hastings wrote in Rolling Stone:</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    “According to the Defense Department’s own definition, psy-ops – the use of propaganda and psychological tactics to influence emotions and behaviors – are supposed to be used exclusively on "hostile foreign groups." Federal law forbids the military from practicing psy-ops on Americans, and each defense authorization bill comes with a "propaganda rider" that also prohibits such manipulation. "Everyone in the psy-ops, intel, and IO community knows you’re not supposed to target Americans," says a veteran member of another psy-ops team who has run operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. "It’s what you learn on day one." (emphasis added)</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">     </font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">JAMES CANNON - RANGE PSYOPS SPECIALIST IN PA</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Range's dominance in the Marcellus fracked gas rush is hardly surprising - Range Resources was the first company to begin drilling for unconventional gas in the Marcellus Shale, back in 2004. Range says on its website [21] that “In 2011, Range is directing 86% of its capital budget toward development drilling in the region.” </font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It certainly has every reason to protect that investment, but hiring an Army PSYOPs specialist?</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Range Resources’ Local Government Relations Manager in Pennsylvania is James Cannon [22], a former Marine and Army Reservist whose unit conducted PSYOPs during Operation Iraqi Freedom. According to his personal website [23] and LinkedIn page [22], Jim Cannon says he is still an active reservist with the 303rd Psychological Operations Company, who served under the US Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.  </font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">One of his colleagues in the 303rd Psychological Operations Company discussed the unit's PSYOP experiences in Iraq in April 2003. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [18] reported, “Since October [2003], a massive public information campaign has been under way in Iraq. American and British planes have dropped 36 million leaflets in Iraq. They have distributed scores of solar-powered and hand-crank short wave radios with instructions for tuning in to Arabic-language broadcasts that urge cooperation with coalition troops. Trucks with loudspeakers have been used to spread the message that America is in Iraq to liberate, not to occupy the nation.”</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What if the same techniques that the Army used to weaken the insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan are being used by the gas industry to intimidate U.S. citizens in Pennsylvania? Of course they wouldn't need the Black Hawk helicopters, the U.S. Postal Service can drop letters just fine. But the tactics of using financial incentives and disseminating propaganda designed to pit neighbor against neighbor?</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jim Cannon's company Range Resources has deployed these PSYOP-inspired tactics in Pennsylvania, sending threatening letters to the citizens of Mt. Pleasant Township in hopes of dividing the community, and attempting to sway the township supervisors to do industry’s bidding.</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As best documented by This American Life [24], Range has sent threatening letters to residents of Mount Pleasant, PA, where citizens were concerned about the impacts of natural gas drilling on their community. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette also covered the Range Resources letters controversy [25], and included PDFs of the actual letters sent by Range to Mt. Pleasant residents.</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The first letter, sent in April 2011 to all Mt. Pleasant Township residents [PDF] [26], used a ‘winning hearts and minds’ style approach, touting the company’s local investments:</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    "Over those years, we have become a part of your community. From millions of dollars in corporate giving to tax-free road improvements, Range has strived to be a good neighbor and community partner."</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Range sent a second letter around the same time, but only to property owners with gas leases. It appears to seek to divide the community, by threatening that the company might pull out of the town if it didn’t get its way, essentially striking fear into residents that such a decision would hurt their lease income and encouraging them to pressure local leaders to keep Range happy. The second letter [PDF] [27] states:</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    “Throughout the state, Range is held up as the model for the natural gas drilling industry; everywhere, that is, except Mt. Pleasant. While we have made every effort to establish a positive and robust working relationship with your elected officials, our attempts continue to be rejected. As a result, we are sending this communication to inform you that we have revised our future long-term plans in the Township due to continuing difficulties with your Township supervisors and their unwillingness to work with us. As it stands, those revisions may prove detrimental to leaseholders.</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    Ultimately we may be forced to shift activity to other, more cooperative townships.The shifting of operational activities will inevitably result in the shift of related activities, including the purchase of goods, services and food to other, more cooperative communities.”</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">At issue was the company’s distaste for a local ordinance banning temporary housing, which blocked Range from erecting bunkhouses at drill sites for its employees. Matt Pitzarella suggested the company might sue or leave the town.</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"If the township continues to push this issue, we may have to challenge it in court or walk away," Mr. Pitzarella told the Post-Gazette.</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Range’s aggressive pressure tactics created a backlash in the community, as the Post-Gazette story [28] reported:</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    "We are outraged," said Dencil Bachus, a Mount Pleasant resident and coordinator of a citizens committee that advised the township on the Marcellus ordinance. "This is an effort by Range Resources to divide a community on the eve of a decision on an ordinance that affects them directly. It's an attempt by the company to get what they want rather than operate within the [township government] process. It's a divide-and-conquer public relations strategy."</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Other area residents have also experienced Range’s intimidation tactics first hand. Ron Gullah [29], Hickory resident whose pond was contaminated near a Range drilling operation, says,</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">��   “Range Resources operates on intimidation. They have intimidated everyone and have taken advantage of this rural area.”</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Another Mt. Pleasant resident, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal, told DeSmogBlog that:</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> ��  “What’s going on here, it’s kinda like Love Canal. The intimidation from these corporations is astounding to me. I don’t know how they’re allowed to get away with it. I’d like to see them get nailed.”</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    </font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">OTHER POSSIBLE EXAMPLES OF PSYOPs-INSPIRED INTIMIDATION</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">One indicator of PSYOPs type behavior by the gas industry occurred in April 2011, when an Ohio woman found a binder in her driveway, “Talking Points for Selling Oil and Gas Lease Rights.�� [30] The source of the document was never identified, so its authenticity is not confirmed, however the manipulative techniques mentioned in the binder are consistent with PSYOPS tactics.</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The focal point of a well-run PSYOPs campaign is to reward those who go along with the mission, and punish those who do not. Other “winning hearts and minds” PSYOP-like tactics include industry sponsorship of county fairs [31], sponsorship of child domestic abuse centers [32], and donating money [33] to other community projects. </font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This all comes roughly a year after the<b> Pennsylvania Department of Homeland Security, then headed by James Powers </b>[34], a man with three decades of military experience and formerly a professor at the Joint Special Operations University and the U.S. Army War College, <b>was caught spying on anti-fracking activists [35], via an Israel-based private security firm called the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response [35]. </b></font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">HOW WIDESPREAD IS THIS PRACTICE IN THE GAS INDUSTRY?</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">According to a March 2011 story appearing in the Pittsburgh Business Times, Range Resources “estimates that veterans account for about 10 percent of its employees.” [36] That is an impressive statistic, and many of the skills learned in the military would naturally come in handy in oil and gas operations. However, legitimate questions arise when companies like Range Resources tout their hiring of military PSYOPs specialists to deploy these tactics on American citizens.</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Is Range the only industry player deploying veterans with PSYOPs experience, and using these propaganda techniques in U.S. communities? The company’s leadership role in the Marcellus Shale fracking industry suggests that this practice is likely more widespread.</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A November 2010 press release from the Marcellus Shale Coalition [37] (MSC), a Pennsylvania lobbying association that promotes unconventional gas development, shows that scores of veterans now work for the natural gas industry [38], at corporations ranging from Chesapeake Energy, Anadarko, Atlas Energy, and more. The Coalition includes Exxon (XTO), Shell, Statoil, Halliburton, Chesapeake, and others.</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Chairman of the Marcellus Shale Coalition is Ray Walker [39], Senior Vice President of Range Resources. Walker's Range colleague Matt Pitzerella chairs MSC's communications Subcommittee [40], and also is sub-chairman of America's Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA), another major gas industry PR outfit promoting fracking and unconventional gas development.   </font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Has Range promoted the use of PSYOPs to these other companies? Do the Marcellus Shale Coalition and ANGA officially sanction its use?</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">RANGE AND THE GAS INDUSTRY PROMISE TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN PUBLIC, BUT DOES THIS PSYOPS ACTIVITY MEET THAT PROMISE?</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Engaging in PSYOPs runs contrary to the promises that Range Resources makes to the public about the company’s behavior.</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">For example, Matt Pitzarella, in a September 2011 interview [41], stated, “We need to engage, communicate, be transparent, accessible and accountable.”</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">John Pinkerton, CEO of Range Resources stated in a June 2011 press release [42], “Along with all of Range's employees, management team and Board of Directors, we have established a strong culture at Range based on integrity, transparency, performance and teamwork.” (emphasis added)</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Range alleges that it complies with all laws, without exception [43]:</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    “It is the policy of Range that we will conduct business in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations, as well as applicable laws and regulations of foreign jurisdictions, and in a manner that will always reflect a high standard of ethics,” reads their Code of Business Conduct and Ethics. “The laws and regulations applicable to Range are far reaching and complex. Compliance with the law does not comprise our entire ethical responsibility; rather, it is a minimum, essential condition for performance of our duties.”</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It also has stated a commitment [44] [PDF] to “continuously improve our practices and seek transparency in our operations” and that it is “committed to being responsible members of the communities in which we work,” in an October 2011 Company Presentation. Furthermore, it has stated [45], “[W]e can make a better way of life for all Pennsylvanians. At the same time, we remain dedicated to enhancing the environment and communities we all call home.�� </font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In one document, Range states [46], “As one of America’s leading natural gas producers, we are committed to responsibly develop this resource and to being open, honest and transparent.”</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Range’s rhetoric is admirable, but does it match the reality of its practices? It appears that Range’s use of psychological warfare tactics on U.S. citizens may mean that it is violating the Smith-Mundt Act.</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">One has to wonder, though, how frequently and to what depth are these immoral tactics being used by the gas industry on American citizens? It is certainly worthy of an in-depth examination.</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Additional Reporting by DeSmogBlog Research Fellow Steve Horn</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sharon Wilson [47] with the Oil and Gas Accountability Project at EarthWorks [48] attended the conference and recorded the audio.  We're especially grateful that Sharon - who also blogs at TexasSharon.com [49] - documented this, since DeSmogBlog's own Steve Horn was out in the hallway after his own entry was denied the morning of the conference. Steve was granted a press pass to cover the event weeks earlier, but after flying all the way from Wisconsin to cover the conference, Steve received last-minute notice that he wasn't welcome. He eventually convinced the conference organizers to let him in later that day. Stay tuned for more news about what happened at the conference in the days and weeks to come.</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">TAGS: Anadarko [50], Anadarko Petroleum [51], Counterinsurgency Field Manual [52], Earthworks Oil and Gas Accountability Project [53], fracking insurgency [54], fracking PSYOPs [55], Jim Cannon Range Resources [56], KBR [57], Local Government Relations [58], Matt Carmichael Anadarko [59], Matt Pitzarella [60], Mt. Pleasant gas [61], News We made [62], psychological warfare [63], psyops [64], Range Resources [65], Range Resources NYSE: RRC [66], Ron Gullah [67], Sharon Wilson [68], Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 [69]</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    Anadarko</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    Anadarko Petroleum</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    Counterinsurgency Field Manual</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    Earthworks Oil and Gas Accountability Project</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    fracking insurgency</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">  �� fracking PSYOPs</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    Jim Cannon Range Resources</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    KBR</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    Local Government Relations</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    Matt Carmichael Anadarko</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> ��  Matt Pitzarella</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    Mt. Pleasant gas</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    News We made</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    psychological warfare</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    psyops</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    Range Resources</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    Range Resources NYSE: RRC</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    Ron Gullah</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    Sharon Wilson</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    Smith-Mundt Act of 1948</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Source URL: http://www.desmogblog.com/gas-fracking-industry-using-military-psychological-warfare-tactics-and-personnel-u-s-communities</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Former:</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Community Liaison</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Magazine Editor</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Operations Manager for major media company</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Community Involvement</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Mt. Lebanon Veterans' Memorial Fundraising Committee, 2010-Present</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Mt. Lebanon Veterans' Memorial Design Committee 2009-2010</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Mt. Lebanon Community Relations Board 2007-2008</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Military Service</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">US Marine Corps (Active), 1990-94--Trained in various aspect of military communications. Served with 3rd Marine Division; support staff at Mountain Warfare Training Center</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">US Army (Reserve), 303rd Psychological Operations Company, 2005-Present--Served under US Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Academic Background</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">BA, Communication, Florida Atlantic University</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Graduated Mt. Lebanon High School 1987</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Attended Washington Elementary, Mellon Junior High School</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">  ===</font></div>

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</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">John H. Pinkerton, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and a director, became a director in 1988 and was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2008. He joined Range as President in 1990 and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 1992. Previously, Mr. Pinkerton was Senior Vice President of Snyder Oil Corporation. Mr. Pinkerton currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Texas Christian University and is a member of the Executive Committee of America's Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA). Mr. Pinkerton received his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Texas Christian University and a Master's degree from the University of Texas at Arlington.</font></div>

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