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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/01-3A stunning new report compiles extensive evidence showing how some of the world's largest corporations have partnered with private intelligence firms and government intelligence agencies to spy on activist and nonprofit groups. Environmental activism is a prominent though not exclusive focus of these activities.
The report by the Center for Corporate Policy (CCP) in Washington DC titled Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage against Nonprofit Organizations draws on a wide range of public record evidence, including lawsuits and journalistic investigations. It paints a disturbing picture of a global corporate espionage programme that is out of control, with possibly as much as one in four activists being private spies.
The report argues that a key precondition for corporate espionage is that the nonprofit in question:
"... impairs or at least threatens a company's assets or image sufficiently."
One of the groups that has been targeted the most, and by a range of different corporations, is Greenpeace. In the 1990s, Greenpeace was tracked by private security firm Beckett Brown International (BBI) on behalf of the world's largest chlorine producer, Dow Chemical, due to the environmental organisation's campaigning against the use of chlorine to manufacture paper and plastics. The spying included:
"... pilfering documents from trash bins, attempting to plant undercover operatives within groups, casing offices, collecting phone records of activists, and penetrating confidential meetings."
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How Corporations and Spy Agencies Use 'Security' to Defend Profiteering and Crush Activism (Original Post)
xchrom
Dec 2013
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Laelth
(32,017 posts)1. k&r for exposure. n/t
-Laelth
rrneck
(17,671 posts)2. The "F" word comes to mind. nt
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)3. *** & friggin r! n/t
Octafish
(55,745 posts)4. Capitalism's Invisible Army
Nice people. Real class.
Thank you very much for the heads-up on Spooky Business, xhcrom
K5BR.