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Related: About this forumUndercover FBI agents who spied on activists in Minneapolis
"'Karen Sullivan' along with another undercover FBI agent, who went by the name of 'Daniela Cardenas'"
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The FBI affidavit paints a far more sinister picture, with testimony from Karen alleging that members of the FRSOteachers and trade unionists with long-standing ties to their communities; people whose homes she visited and whose newborn children she cradled in her armswere actively plotting to take over government buildings in an armed revolution, all while aiding terrorist organizations in Colombia and Palestine. But after two years of undercover work, there was never any hard evidence for any of this.
http://www.vice.com/read/how-the-fbi-goes-after-activists
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The use of undercover cops/informants should be highly regulated. Not for fishing trips like this.
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Undercover FBI agents who spied on activists in Minneapolis (Original Post)
Eric J in MN
Apr 2014
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geardaddy
(24,931 posts)1. K and R
Devious m'fers.
The woman who called herself ""Karen Sullivan...told activists she had a rough childhood and spent years on the streets after first her parents and then the military kicked her out for being gay."
Winning sympathy with a phony story to try to manipulate activists into committing crimes she could bust them for.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)3. It's interesting to note that Betsy Hodges
now Mayor of Minneapolis didn't sign the letter condemning the raids. 12 of 13 of the councilmembers signed.